Over the years, I have used several different VPNs, both at work and for my home network. Most have worked well enough, but they all force all traffic through the…
Twingate – It’s not a VPN, or is it?
Unifi Dream Machine
For years, I used the network equipment supplied by my internet providers. More often than not, these are mediocre at best. So, for some time, I treated the internet provider…
Dell XC730-16G
I recently acquired two Dell XC730-16G servers. According to the Dell web site, they are a Hyper-Converged Appliance: - The Dell XC730-16G system is web-scale converged appliance based on the…
Unifi US-16-XG
My home lab has undergone several changes over the last couple of years. The biggest one is that I upgraded to 10Gb networking. Initially, I used a SAN to hold…
Hyper-V Powershell Networking
Get a list of switches Get-VMSwitch Get a list of Network adapters Get-VMNetworkAdapter -all Change virtual switch each VM's Network Card points at: - Get-VM "VM01" | Get-VMNetworkAdapter With this…
HP 10Gb Dual SFP+ Network Card & Hyper-V
When I first started to upgrade my home lab server network to 10Gb, I was determined to do it on a sensible budget. As all of my networking infrastructure is…
Heimdall
In an era where the efficiency of managing various web services and applications is paramount, dashboards like Heimdall play a crucial role. Heimdall, named after the Norse deity, the vigilant…
Homarr – My new homepage
For years, I have added bookmarks to my browsers to enable me to navigate to the different systems I use. Typically, I open a list of pages whenever I launch…
Moving VMs and Containers on Proxmox
Unlike Hyper-V server, moving a VM or Container in Proxmox is really simple. You simply select the source VM or Container in the Datacenter area on the left and then…
Mount an existing NFS share into K8s Pods
I hadn't realised Kubernetes could mount an existing NFS share into a pod with just a little text inside a manifest. Of course, the share has to exist first, and…