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Storage
Configure TerraMaster Hyper Cache NAS SSD Caching
In working with the TerraMaster F4-424 Max, one of the features that I wanted to play around with was the SSD cache on this hybrid NAS. I installed (2) NVMe drives in the unit along with the spindles that I…
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Storage
TerraMaster F4-424 Max NAS Review for Home Lab
In my opinion, NAS devices are getting better and better with more powerful hardware and better software on top of them. I recently reviewed the TerraMaster F8 SSD Plus and was really impressed with the unit, it is actually serving…
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Storage
Ceph Storage Calculator to find Capacity and Cost
If you are spinning up a Ceph storage pool and working with Ceph to store things like virtual machines in your Proxmox VE Server cluster, you may want to have an easy way to calculate the usable storage for your…
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Storage
RAIDZ Calculator to find ZFS Capacity and Cost
Manually calculating your ZFS RAID storage capacity and cost can be something that you want to do if you are building out ZFS implementation. You may be looking for a ZFS RAID calculator that can help with this. Take a…
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home lab
Share your Home Lab 2024 and Win a $799 Mini PC
In an effort to motivate ones to share their home labs with the community, I will be giving away a Beelink SEi14 Mini PC to a random winner who shares pics and specs of their home lab. Let me share…
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home lab
Enable CPU C States for Massive Power Savings for your Home Server
I have been deep-diving lately into helpful suggestions, configurations, and settings that help to lower the power bill in a home lab or edge environment with server hardware or even mini PCs running as servers. I want to shed light…
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VMware PowerCLI
PowerCLI vMotion Enable Easy Switcher Script
Have you found yourself in the position of needing to change which vmkernel ports vMotion is enabled on? Maybe you have to storage vMotion a VM to a different cluster and need to make sure that vMotion is on the…
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Windows
Windows Admin Center (v2) Public Preview New Features, Download, and Install
Another bit of news caught my attention in the fact that Windows Admin Center (v2) has dropped in public preview. There appear to be a lot of new features and things to talk about with this release. So, let’s dive…
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VMware
Critical VMware vCenter Server Patch VMSA-2024-0019 – Upgrade Now!
In case you haven’t seen as of yet today, VMware has released a critical patch for VMware vCenter Server, noted in VMSA-2024-0019 for vulnerabilities: CVE-2024-38812, CVE-2024-38813. Let’s look at the vulnerabilities, the severity, any workarounds, and the process to get…
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Storage
HexOS NAS Operating System Runs on TrueNAS SCALE
There was a blurb about a new NAS operating system that caught my attention the other day. There is a new NAS OS that is in beta currently called HexOs that has a goal to revolutionize the ease of self-hosting…
