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home lab
Synology Active Backup for Business – Best Home Server Backup
One thing you will want to do when you get to a certain stage of your home lab is to have backups and an overall backup strategy for DR to reduce risk. Backups help you recreate configurations and important data…
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Monitoring
Netdata VMware vSphere Monitoring Configuration
Netdata has come onto the scene as a very easy-to-configure and quick time-to-value monitoring solution. It is cloud-based, and you can easily use it to monitor endpoints on-premises, including virtualization and hypervisor environments like VMware vSphere. Table of contentsWhat is…
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Proxmox
Nested ESXi install in Proxmox: Step-by-Step
If you have a Proxmox VE server in your home lab or production environment and want to play around with VMware ESXi, you can easily do that with Proxmox nested virtualization. Let’s look at the steps required for a nested…
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home lab
Top Home Lab Mistakes to Avoid
Mistakes when it comes to home labs are inevitable. In fact, I have learned over the years they are simply part of the learning experience. Testing things out or trying things that break can lead to some important discoveries in…
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home lab
How to Enable Proxmox Nested Virtualization
You may or may not have heard about nested virtualization. However, nested virtualization is a great way to set up virtualization labs and other learning environments. Nested virtualization in Proxmox is fairly easy to configure. With the Proxmox hypervisor, you…
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VMware
What is VMware vSAN Max? Download Now
VMware is the leader in virtualization in the enterprise. It has released VMware vSAN Max as the latest addition to their vSAN product lineup. vSAN Max is a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution providing maximum performance, scalability, and flexibility for modern…
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Kubernetes
Top Kubeadm commands to Manage your Kubernetes cluster
Kubeadm is a command line tool for managing and configuring Kubernetes clusters for development or production. This guide will look at the top kubeadm commands to manage your Kubernetes cluster and what you need to know. Table of contents1. Installing Kubeadm2.…
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DevOps
Neovim vs Vim: Battle for best IDE
When it comes to IDEs, Vim has been an IDE that many developers, DevOps, and enthusiasts have used for years. Also, Neovim, a fork of Vim, has become a solution many prefer since it brings modern features and improvements to…
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Kubernetes
How to Install Kubernetes in Ubuntu 22.04 with Kubeadm
In this guide, we will install Kubernetes in Ubuntu 22.04 from scratch using the kubeadm command. Table of contents1. Update your Ubuntu 22.04 hosts2. Setup your hostnames and resolution3. System Settings for KubernetesDisable swap fileKernel parameters4. Installing Containerd container runtime5.…
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Networking
DHCP Snooping configuration: Protect against Rogue DHCP Servers
DHCP snooping is a really good security feature on many switches that helps to make sure only trusted DHCP messages are allowed across your network. Let’s look at how it works and how you can configure it. Table of contentsWhat…
