Reading Time: 6 minutesFrom time to time, hardware needs replacing—and sometimes that means migrating Virtual Machines. If you’re using a virtualization solution like VMware with vCenter, this is usually an easy task: you can essentially drag-and-drop VMs from your old cluster to your new one. With Proxmox VE, migrating VMs between clusters isn’t currently supported through the web […]
Object First: Zabbix monitoring
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe template has changed, and the documentation here is outdated. The latest version and documentation can be found on GitHub Monitoring your environment helps you find issues within your environment. It can even predict if a disk gets full or if processors are overloaded if set up correctly. For this reason, I have started a […]
MinIO: On-Prem Object Storage for Veeam ...
Reading Time: 8 minutes This guide for MinIO is quite advanced. It requires you to run commands on your local device. About MinIO Object Storage is available in many different ways. The most commonly known is probably Amazon's S3. Other flavours are Azure blob storage, Wasabi (no, not the Japanese horseradish), Object First, and many others. While MinIO […]
FDM Monster: running 3D print farm softw...
Reading Time: 4 minutesAbout FDM Monster FDM Monster started as a fork of OctoFarm, the software for which I created the Raspberry Pi image FarmPi. The OctoFarm team has suspended development, and FDM Monster is a feasible alternative to OctoFarm. There isn't much on their website yet. However, their Documentation is starting to grow. David Zwart, the lead […]
NetBox: How to run it on your Synology
Reading Time: 5 minutesNetBox is a tool to combine functions like DataCenter Infrastructure Management (DCIM) and IP Address Management (IPAM) with powerful APIs into your infrastructure's Source-of-Truth. NetBox is used by many organizations as their go-to tool for their infrastructure documentation. Today I am going to help you set this up on your Synology NAS. I'll be using […]
How to run Docker and Portainer on your ...
Reading Time: 4 minutesToday I am going to help you set up Docker and Portainer on your Synology NAS. I'll be using the Synology that I recently received. I am assuming you don't have anything installed on your Synology other than DSM. Skip the steps you have already done. Docker To start, we need to install Docker. Docker […]
Synology DS923+ Review part 1 of many
Reading Time: 3 minutesIntroduction Recently fellow co-vanguard Nico Stein helped me to get in touch with Synology to become a product reviewer. After an excellent talk with Nick over at Synology, he helped me to get a Synology Disksation DS923+, including a D4ES02-8G 8GB memory upgrade, an E10G22-T1-Mini 10Ge Ethernet module, and two of the brand spanking new, […]
Veeam Service Provider Console Chocolate...
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt has been a while since I wrote a blog post about Veeam. This time, I wrote one, especially for the Service Providers running Veeam software. You may or may not know about the Veeam Service Provider Console (VSPC), but in short, it's for you if you are a Service Provider and it's free! Just […]
FarmPi - Running OctoFarm on a Raspberry...
Reading Time: 6 minutesRecently, I got involved with the OctoFarm software created by James Mackay and David Zwart. I helped them create a Chocolatey package called OctoFarm. This installs the latest LTS Release of NodeJS, MongoDB and OctoFarm on your Windows machine. If you are not familiar with Chocolatey have a look at their Why Chocolatey document in their […]
OctoPi with OctoDash on RPi 4 with Hyper...
Reading Time: 14 minutesHow-To install and configure OctoPrint and OctoDash on your Raspberry Pi with HyperPixel 4.0 and Raspberry Pi Camera v2