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Monitoring
Server Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana
Many great free and open-source monitoring solutions are available for monitoring your servers and applications. In case you have not heard about the free and open-source monitoring solution, Prometheus, we will look at the Prometheus node exporter to scrape metrics…
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Software Defined Storage
Hyper-V Virtual SAN synchronization with StarWind Virtual SAN
The StarWind Virtual SAN solution is one of the easiest ways to run software-defined virtual SAN in Hyper-V. It has many great features that were recently updated to provide an even better solution with faster replication. Let’s look at the…
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VMware
VMware Resource Pool vs Cluster Comparison
There are many different constructs as part of the VMware vSphere environment with vCenter Server and ESXi. VMware vSphere provides many excellent capabilities and tools as part of the vSphere cluster resources for critical workloads. Two components in vSphere provide…
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Proxmox
Proxmox scripts PowerShell Ansible and Terraform
Proxmox is growing more and more popular, especially for home lab enthusiasts and those looking to spin up labs based on totally free and open-source software. Proxmox has a great API that allows throwing automation tasks at the solution and…
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Software Defined Storage
Free Virtual Storage Appliance StarWind SAN & NAS new features
In the virtualized environment, we can use many great tools for storage resources. These include virtual storage appliances, especially to attach to running virtual machine instances in the environment, like VMware vSphere. Recently, StarWind released a new version of their…
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Containers
Best docker containers for Synology NAS
I am a big fan of Docker containers and Synology NAS devices. The great thing about Synology NAS units with the Synology DSM operating system is it allows running docker container instances on your Synology NAS. Running the Docker Engine…
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vSAN
HCIBench – Speedtest for VMware vSAN storage
If you work with VMware vSAN and are looking for a benchmarking tool for your vSAN datastore, the HCIbench tool is the de facto standard for testing out your vSAN storage performance. It uses test VMs to generate load on…
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Windows Subsystem for Linux
Windows Subsystem for Linux has no installed distributions
Windows Subsystem for Linux is a great environment for working with Linux tools, applications, utilities, bash command prompt shell, etc., from a Windows environment, as long as you don’t run into “Windows Subsystem for Linux has no installed distributions”. Windows…
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Containers
Docker Rename container from the command line and GUI
You may be running several Docker container instances in your lab environment and elsewhere. Docker container environments are becoming increasingly common for self-hosted services. Docker containers allow spinning up services quickly and running services more efficiently than in virtual machines…
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home lab
IoT Notification System Push Notifications for Home Lab no SMTP required
There has been an explosion of IoT devices across consumer and enterprise environments leading to IoT notification system needs. IoT or Internet of things devices comprises sensors, connected industrial equipment, and other hardware that has a network connection and can…
