Your lovely 4 x Intel NUC lab burned down. Your only working lab worthy (nah) device is an old i5 8GB workstation running Windows Server 2012 R2. Even though you’d never consider this previously, you now need to run your entire lab off this thing…

Veeam Software today announced the immediate availability of the NEW Veeam Availability Console, a free management console for service providers delivering Veeam-powered services, such as Backup as a Service (BaaS) and Disaster Recovery as a service (DRaaS), to more efficiently manage, track and invoice for these services.

In this tutorial, we’re going to finish up the OpenVPN setup. What’s left to do is creating client configuration file (.ovpn), which is going to contain all the info required by the OpenVPN client for establishing a VPN connection. We’re also going to look into the actual client software setup on Windows, Linux, Android, iOS and OSX.

We’re all lazy, aren’t we? If you think about it for a second, everything you do is more or less aimed at making your life easier, simpler and less-time consuming. Think about your last project.

Essential network components are sometimes the hardest to configure without knowing the basics. When I first started working on a virtual environment, I didn’t even know I had to setup networking! It took me weeks to understand fully how all the VMware “parts” speak to each other. The vKernels, vSwitches, vLANs versus VLANs… yeah, that’s a story for another time.