Photon OS

Sometimes it's a better to have an easy-to-use system rather than one with everything. We need a secure VM and that's why we run Proton OS. Using the recommendations of the KSPP (Kernel Self-Protection Project), the Photon OS Linux Kernel is secure from the start.

Arcane – Docker Dashboard

My new favorite. A Modern Docker Management GUI with a clean, intuitive design. The GUI includes: real-time monitoring, container management, image management, network configuration, volume management and resource visualization and the list goes on ...

Cloud Images & Cloud-init

One of the supporting pillars of virtualization is the use of Cloud-Init and Cloud Images. Setting up VMs is easy and fast. The process is easy to automate and adapt to CI/CD.

SmokePing

SmokePing is a deluxe latency measurement tool. It can measure, store and display latency, latency distribution and packet loss. SmokePing uses the RRDtool to maintain a long term data-store. It draws informative graphs of the state of each network connection to express up-to-the-minute information.

TrueCommand

TrueCommand is a ZFS-aware solution, allowing you to set custom alerts on statistics like ARC usage or pool capacity, ensuring storage uptime and future planning. TrueCommand also identifies and pinpoints errors on drives or vdevs, saving valuable time when troubleshooting and resolving issues.

PVE Node Router and SDN

Running services on a PVE node is a perfect place to simulate networking. For the basic setup, we are to use SDN and OPNsense. Setting up a virtual or dedicated NIC as WAN and set up an SDN network for our VM/CT to use.

Proxmox LXC PBS

Proxmox Backup Server is flexible and can be installed on any device running Debian, a VM or a LXC. Here I show my Proxmox LXC setup. Having PBS on the PVE is making use of the large and fast SSD ZFS RAID 10 storage.

Clearing old Disks – Wipe them

Before re-using any old disk, I do like to wipe them of data. Before removing the disk from the node, we wipe it clean. Now they are ready to store for later use or passed to a new owner with an old server.

List of Xeon E5-1/2/4600 Server CPUs

The list of Intel Xeon E5-2600 (Broadwell) processors below includes all released models, and their most important specifications.

Make BASH nicer, make it shine.

As I as many of you spend most of my time in a terminal, why not make it shine a little. As everyone know, ZSH is easy to rice, but you can almost as easy rice your BASH shell.

Proxmox IP2tag – tag by IP

This script automatically assigns tags containing IP addresses to virtual machines and containers running in a Proxmox environment. It is an alternative to lxc-iptags but is more extensive and flexible in many ways.

More New Themes for Proxmox

You can make a new theme for Proxmox, and many have done so. The oldest came to PVE 6. The most feamose was "PVE Discord Dark", now we have some newer themes: Nord PVE, Solar PVE and new forks of PVE Discord Dark.