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Software
Faddom Application Dependency Mapping: Visualize your apps and network
I had seen a reference to the tool and application called Faddom on the web and referenced it in a few YouTube videos. With curiosity piqued, I wanted to get this into the lab environment and look at the Faddom…
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Mini PC & Server
Beelink SEi12 Review as Mini PC Home Server with Core i7-12650H
The Beelink SEi12 mini PC is an interesting mini PC that contains a 12th-generation Intel Core i7 processor. Beelink recently sent a SEi12 to me to try out. However, I was not compensated for this review other than receiving the…
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DevOps
InfluxDB Grafana Docker-Compose Configuration: Proxmox Monitoring Example
When it comes to open-source monitoring, two tools come up quite often for building out monitoring stacks for things like Kubernetes monitoring (storage, scaling, performance, etc), cloud monitoring, application metrics, and many others in your environment – InfluxDB and Grafana.…
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Networking
New Unifi Port and VLAN Manager Walkthrough
The new Unifi Network Application release, starting in v8.0.7, is one of the best upgrades to the Unifi Network Application in some time in terms of features and capabilities that will make a difference for administrators. Two of the new…
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XCP-ng
Xen Orchestra 5.90 Released XCP-ng 8.30 and New XO Lite Features
Vates, the company behind Xen Orchestra and the new XO Lite managing XCP-ng the open-source version of the Citrix hypervisor, has shipped a new release of Xen Orchestra before year’s end. Also, the company keeps teasing new features and enhancements…
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Networking
Unifi Network Application 8: New Features and Enhancements
The latest release of the Unifi Network Application, version 8, marks a significant advancement in the realm of manageability in the Unifi Network application. In this update, Unifi has improved a lot of things for managing Unifi environments in the…
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Proxmox
Proxmox Networking for VMware vSphere admins
One of the challenges that we run into when we are more familiar with one vendor over another is the difference in the technologies, how they work for customers, what they are called, and how to configure them. On the…
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Self hosted
FreshRSS Docker Compose Setup Guide Self-Hosted RSS Reader
I have been using RS more and more to aggregate news and other information sources out there for quick and easy consumption to get to the details quickly. FreshRSS is a popular favorite for a simple and easy RSS feed…
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Networking
Alta Labs S24 PoE Switch Review
Recently, the great guys over at Alta Labs sent me one of their network switches, an Alta Labs S24-PoE, to take a look at and give my feedback. This is not a paid post or review, so my thoughts are…
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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…