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New year, new "homelab" - more upgrades. Reorganize the rack, and added a lot more "new to me" servers. From top to bottom: Unifi Protect NVR 4x4TB RAID 5 Netgear Multi-Gig Switch - Workstation Network 1U 24 Port Patch Panel 1U 24 Port Patch P...

Download the ISO Head over to https://xcp-ng.org/, and choose Download to download the XCP-NG Installer ISO. As of 2023-01-29, the latest version of XCP-NG is 8.2.1 Once the ISO is downloaded, you can burn it to a USB Flash drive using Rufus (https://ru...

Since XCP-NG is a Type 1 Hypervisor, the bare minimum hardware requirements are below: 64-Bit x86 CPU, 1.5 Ghz clock speed minimum 2 GB minimum 46 GB disk space minimum 10/100 Mb/s NIC However, as always, minimum requirement does not mean that you wil...

In this guide, I will show you how to install Xen Orchestra from source on a Debian 11 system, using a community created install script. The install script can be found here: https://github.com/ronivay/XenOrchestraInstallerUpdater  Install the Prerequisites ...

Xen Orchestra is an open-source web-based platform for managing and monitoring XCP-NG and Citrix Xen Servers. It is the recommended way to manage XCP-NG hosts. It provides a user-friendly interface for managing virtual machines, networks, storage, and hosts. W...

Permission settings in TrueNAS are applied onto Datasets in a Pool. Think of datasets as a folder and the pool is the C: or D: drive.  You can learn more about the permission settings at the office documentation site: https://www.truenas.com/docs/core/coretut...

A snapshot is a read-only copy of a dataset or volume at a specific point in time. It is a powerful type of data protection mechanism that allows you to capture the state of your data at a particular moment, and preserve that state for future reference or reco...

S.M.A.R.T (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a storage drive health monitoring system that can give you early warning if a drive is about to fail, so you can prepare accordingly.  On TrueNAS, you can setup automated S.M.A.R.T tests on a s...

You have to first add the XCP-NG physical hosts details to the Xen Orchestra VM before you can start managing it inside of Xen Orchestra.  Login to your Xen Orchestra WebGUI. Click on New on the bottom left side, and then chooser Server. Here, you can s...

With the latest Xen Orchestra 5.81 release (https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/xen-orchestra-5-81/), there is now a GUI option for easy VM migration from VMWare ESXI to XCP-NG. This process is NOT a one way migration; VMs are COPIED to XCP-NG from VMWare ESXI, an...

Similar to how VMWare have its VMWare Tools for the guest VMs, Xen-based hypervisors like XCP-NG can utilize the Xen Guest Utilities tools to have guest VMs communicate better with the hypervisor. Those tools are software packages designed to enhance the perfo...

Based on the Manual Installation steps, I have created a simple bash script to automate the Apache Guacamole server install with MariaDB for database authentication and NGINX for web-server front-end.  Copy the following code into a bash file, and run the scr...

In this guide, I will show you how to install Apache Guacamole server natively on Debian 11. Apache Guacamole have a nice, official install guide for installing Guacamole natively, located at https://guacamole.apache.org/doc/gug/installing-guacamole.html#buil...

Debian is known for its stability, robustness, and adherence to free software principles. Each Debian release aims to improve upon the previous versions by introducing new features, bug fixes, and updated software packages.  In this guide, I will walk you thr...

Upgrading Debian from one version to the next is actually a simple, straight forward process. All you have to do is change the apt source repository from one Debian version to the next one, and update! As with any major system upgrades, make sure you backup y...

Installing the CrowdSec Security Engine is very straight forward on Debain. It is as simple as adding the official repositories, then install using the apt package manager. Official Documentation can be found at https://doc.crowdsec.net/docs/getting_started/i...

In the latest version of CrowdSec, there is now an Blocklist Mirror Bouncer. This bouncer will take CrowdSec Security Engine's active decision and put it into an block list format, and share it via HTTP.  Similar to public IP/DNS Blocklist like the ones Pi-Ho...

LVM, or Logical Volume Management, is a technology used in Linux to manage storage devices and partitions more flexibly. It allows you to create, resize, move, and manage logical volumes, which are virtualized storage components. Display Volume Groups sudo v...

On June 15, 2023, Google announced an agreement with Squarespace to transfer all domain registrations and related customer accounts from Google Domains to Squarespace.  As such. Google Domains will no longer provide new domain registrations. Google Domain was...

SimpleLogin is an email alias service that lets users create disposable email addresses to enhance online privacy and manage their online interactions more efficiently. These aliases can be used to shield the user's primary email from spam and unwanted sign-up...