Since 1975, a HomeLab enthusiast. In IT 1970 →, 25y for Fortune 500 companies, rest as independent entrepreneur and senior consultant, IT and Management. Happily retired from IT 2011 and totally 2020.
Networking
Sophos XG firewall on Proxmox A enterprise grade firewall for yore home! You will get a ton of features and possibuilities to fine tune the firewall and thret protection. You have all the stuff you need in one package. #sophos #proxmox
Tools
Lost admin password on an old Windows 7 machine. Reset any users password.
Build
Yes, you need more than root. Security says busing root everyware isn't safe and that segregating of duty is a good way to hardening security.
Basics
How to install an OS to any machine. Using a proxyDNS and its in-built TFTP as in Part 2. #pxe #pixieboot
Basics
A practical example of booting your Servers or VM's by PXE in a Proxmox clusters. The OS will be on the Local Disk or will be loaded into memory. The boot device is then PXE Server, DNSMASQ #pxe #pixiboot #proxydns
Basics
Booting devices from the net by PXE is a good way to start diskless devices or provisioning new devices. A new tool is presented iVentoy. Or do it the traditional way with DNSMASQ or DHCP by TFTP. #pxe #iventou #netboot #proxydhcp
Basics
Some times you just can't find your servers or other devices. Working on different networks with a lot of VLAN's it's complicated and you start to forget on what network you are and where are the servers located. My goto tool on Kali Linux is NetDiscover #netdiscover
Build
Homepage dashboard is a modern, secure, highly customizable application dashboard. Easily configured via YAML files or discovery via docker labels. The number of apps it supports with widgets is impressive. And the way of using API Tokens in stead of user/password is admirable. #dashboard
Build
As a Pro, you probably already have many scripts to help your day. This post is primarily about creating custom commands on Linux. Scripts can easily be turned into commands with options and help screens. #wol #script #tool #custom #commands #linux #WoL
Build
All labs need a NAS for storage. Because we already have a ZFS file system, we do not need to run TrueNAS Core or Scale in a VM. We will use Samba with Cockpit as the GUI and run it in a CT. #nas #cockpit
Build
The goal is to have one primary server (pve1) that is running my web server VM and a secondary server (pve2) that is in standby in the event that pve1 fails and then pve3 if pve1 and pve2 are out, and so on.
Proxmox
Making a Proxmox High Availability Virtual Machine cluster without a NAS or GLUSTER or CEPH. Some apps are extremely valuable and needed in our systems. They need to bee up 24/7. How to do it? And are we willing to bare the cost? That's all folks - now we have a 24/7 VM running.