Search Results

By default, BookStack does not have built-in support for limiting access to the login page. However, through BookStack's Logical Theme System (https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/blob/development/dev/docs/logical-theme-system.md), it is possible to crea...

Install the Prerequisites for Debian Minimal Installations sudo apt install apt-transport-https uuid-runtime pwgen dirmngr gnupg wget As of 2022-11-11, the official documentation for Graylog (https://docs.graylog.org/docs/debian) calls for Java 11. Graylog...

Update the base OS system: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y If your BookStack Instance is running on a virtualized platform, it is a good idea to take a snapshot before proceeding to update BookStack application. Otherwise, make sure you have a backu...

Update base OS and Install NGINX sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y sudo apt install nginx Unlink the default config sudo unlink /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default Using your preferred text editor, create a new config file at /etc/nginx/sites-availa...

Over time, as I accumulate more and more consumer hardware, my home lab grew and changed. Below is the upgraded janky hardware for FreeNAS: Intel i7-4790K 32GB (4x8) DDR3 RAM Asus Z97 Motherboard Syba SATA PCIe Expansion Card 4x4TB HDD in RAID 10 3x 48...

While open-air "case" can work, it's not a good idea to leave all the electronics exposed to elements. Sometime during the year, Newegg had a flash sale on a Rosewill L4000 4U server case for cheap, and so I upgraded the lab once more. The components largely ...

Lock down happened. What better way to spend the idle time than to DIY a wooden server rack? The wooden server rack is made from 2x4s, which I got laying around, long before the pandemic skyrocket the cost of wood. Drawer rails from Home Depot works well...

Shortly after vaccination was available to the general public, I switched job. The company was in the middle of an physical office migration and was getting rid of half-height server racks. Of course I took one home. It is a very nice 25U rack. All hardwa...

Electricity cost are on the rise. At this point, the Ivy Bridge Xeon Processors are over 8 years old, and are drawing more watts compared to a more modern processor. Time for an internal upgrade. A LOT of upgrades. From top to bottom: 1U 24 Port Patch P...

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...