Like many people, I have a Synology NAS that I use for backups. I backed up various Windows Servers to a Share on this NAS overnight using tools including Veeam,…
Slow and Problematic Windows -> Linux SMB Share
PiHole and lots of Block Lists
I have been running Pi-Hole for a while now. It is a great utility for blocking Ads and dodgy sites of one sort or another, and the default block lists…
Create a Kubernetes Cluster with Rancher
Creating a Kubernetes cluster with Rancher is easy - it is just a few clicks and a little copy-paste magic. However, you need the machines or nodes to exist before…
Setup for Move VM from one Hyper-V host to another
Moving a VM from one host to another is supposed to be simple. It can be done using PowerShell, or you can use Windows Admin Centre. It should be a…
Traefik – a great ingress controller
In the dynamic world of web traffic management, two major players that have garnered significant attention are Traefik and NGINX. Both tools are powerful proxies and load balancers for handling…
MetalLB – Kubernetes does need a load balancer
At work, we run Kubernetes in Azure. There is an Azure load balancer that provides IP addresses to allow the ingress of traffic into the cluster. Of course, this is…
A cluster of Proxmox servers
One of the main reasons I moved over to Proxmox was the ease with which it was possible to add servers into a cluster. With the Hyper-V server, there were…
Shares in TrueNAS
Before TrueNAS there was Storage Spaces For many years, I ran Windows Servers as my Storage Servers. The last version was Windows Server 2019, and with that, I used Storage…
Setting up backups in Proxmox
Once you have somewhere for the backups to be stored, setting up backups in Proxmox is one of the easiest tasks. Image backups are baked into Proxmox, and as with…
Windows Terminal Configuration
The good old days Until Windows-based operating systems came along, almost every OS was command-line based. DOS, Unix (not Linux, as it didn't exist), OS/400, System 36, TI990, everything. For…