Understanding ICMP Redirects – Why Your Network Traffic Suddenly Takes a Different Route
When a host needs to communicate with a destination outside its local subnet, it normally forwards the packet to its…
Microsoft Hyper-V Networking Best Practices – Part 4 – Managing Hyper-V with SCVMM and Comparing It with VMware vCenter
So far, we have built and managed our Hyper-V environment using Hyper-V Manager, Failover Cluster Manager, and PowerShell. While these…
Microsoft Hyper-V Networking Best Practices – Part 3 – Configuring iSCSI Storage, Cluster Shared Volumes, and Live Migration
In Part 2, we configured the Hyper-V networking using Switch Embedded Teaming (SET) and created our two-node Failover Cluster. In…
Microsoft Hyper-V Networking Best Practices – Part 2 – Configuring Hyper-V Networking, SET, and Failover Clustering
In Part 1 of this series, we installed the Hyper-V role and prepared the lab environment by deploying a domain…
Microsoft Hyper-V Networking Best Practices – Part 1 – Installing Hyper-V and Preparing the Lab Environment
Hyper-V has become a mature enterprise virtualization platform that provides high availability, live migration, software-defined networking, and deep integration with…
Understanding Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) on Linux – Building an ONC RPC Client and Server and Analyzing the Network Traffic
In my previous article, we explored Microsoft’s implementation of Distributed Computing Environment / Remote Procedure Call (DCE/RPC) by building a…
Understanding Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) on Windows – Building a Simple Client and Server and Analyzing the Network Traffic
Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is a general communication paradigm used by many operating systems and distributed systems, including Windows, Linux,…
Cheat Sheet Microsoft Hyper-V
This cheat sheet provides a practical collection of useful Microsoft Hyper-V and Failover Clustering commands for day-to-day administration and troubleshooting….
Windows Secure Boot Certificates Expire in June and October 2026 – Readiness Checks, Troubleshooting, and VMware vSphere Fixes
Microsoft has announced that the original Secure Boot certificates introduced with Windows and UEFI Secure Boot in 2011 are approaching…
Mastering Packet Monitor (Pktmon) on Windows
For years, troubleshooting network traffic on Windows servers often meant installing third-party tools like Wireshark or Npcap directly on production…
