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  • If you reading this, you probably already know, that backups can save your ass when things not going as planned.Commands on this page has been tested on Debian 12 servers, however they will work on most Linux distributions, especially Debian-based…

  • Recently I have installed a fresh vSphere 8 cluster for one of my customers. When we enabled DRS, the following problem appeared: vCLS VMs are deployed, however they are powered off causing Cluster balancing jobs to fail. “Cluster Service health”…

    vCLS not starting on Lenovo servers running ESXI

  • Storage Spaces is a great technology natively presented in Windows. With Storage Spaces you can create volumes with different resiliency settings, including parity (N+1 and N+2). This configuration is very efficient when storing large amounts of data. Many users are…

  • In this article we will select a software for a self-built NAS. For inexperienced users I strongly suggest to buy a ready solution like Synology. They are easier to use and have a commercial support. For anyone interested how to…

  • At some point I decided to build a NAS with a maximum capacity at minimum cost. After some research I found Seagate 16 TB HDDs that had the least price per TB. So I bought: All the purchased disks have…

    Benchmarking high-capacity NAS drives

  • Today I will show you how to mount SMB share on Debian 12 and make it persistent. First of all, cifs-utils should be installed: Next we need to create a mount point on Linux server. I will create “video” folder…

  • If you want to receive a notification about new ssh login to your Linux server, this article is for you. Introduction Implementing a simple notification script for SSH logins on a Linux server is a crucial step for enhancing security,…

    Receive SSH login notifications in Telegram

  • At the beginning we have a Debian 12 server running MariaDB version 10.11, which can be verified with following command: Step 1 : Connect repository Correct repository settings can be obitained on the official website: https://mariadb.org/download/ Import repository signing key:…