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Containers
Top Docker Performance Tweaks on Low-Power Hardware
There are two things that I highly recommend for modern home lab environments, Docker and low-power mini PCs. Docker provides a much more efficient way to run apps compared to running full virtual machines. Also,…
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Latest articles
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.,…
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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…
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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…
