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XCP-NG Center is a community maintained project that provides a management option for XCP-NG on Windows.  As of 2023-11-22, XCP-NG Center is not currently being actively maintained. Use Xen Orchestra instead for day to day XCP-NG administration, and use XCP-N...

Certain Intel CPUs, such as the 8th gen and 9th gen Core i CPUs, supports having their iGPUs passthrough to VMs. The easiest way to enable Intel iGPU passthrough on XCP-NG hosts is through XCP-NG Center. Launch XCP-NG Center, right-click on one of the XCP-NG...

In XCP-ng, a "pool" refers to a grouping of multiple XenServer hosts (physical machines) that work together to manage and share virtual machine resources. This pooling functionality allows administrators to centralize management tasks and create a unified reso...

Head over to the webUI in a browser. The default login credentials are [email protected], with the password admin. Create New Admin User and Change Password First thing first, we will need to change the default user and password.  Go to Settings -> Users ...

XCP-ng sets up a virtual network for each physical network interface during installation. When similar hardware spec servers join a pool, the pool combines all the similar network adapters from hosts into one pool-wide virtual network, allowing virtual machine...

A storage repository is where VM files or ISOs resides on in XCP-NG. For VM storage, XCP-NG calls this VDI SR. For ISOs, it is called ISO SR. XCP-NG also supports many different shared storage options for its storage repository, such as Windows SMB File Share...

Creating a new Virtual Machine in Xen Orchestra is a fairly striaght forward process.  ISO Storage Before you can deploy a new VM sucessfully, you will need to tell the VM which installation ISO to use. The best way to present installation ISOs to VMs in XC...

If you are familiar with rsync on Linux, you will appreciate this Windows command line tool - robocopy. Robocopy stands for “Robust File Copy.” It is a built-in Windows utility tool for transfering files from one location to another.  Robocopy Syntax and F...

Backup Backing up Bookstack is pretty striaght forward. Simply backup the Bookstack database and the Bookstack /var/www folder, and you'll be good to go.  Official Documentation: https://www.bookstackapp.com/docs/admin/backup-restore/  Backup the Database ...

An Encrypted Volume with a Hidden Volume, as implemented in Veracrypt, is a technique used to create two layers of encryption within a single container file or disk partition. The Outer Volume is the primary encrypted volume that is visible and accessible upo...

Launch Veracrypt if it's not already open. In Veracrypt, click and highlight on an unused drive letter, and click on Select Device.  Select your Veracrypt encrypted device.  After selecting the drive, click Mount. Enter the password for either the ou...

Installing Docker Engine on Debian is a very striaght forward process. Add the official Docker repository, install the dependencies and docker, and you're done.  Docker has an official install guide for Debian located at https://docs.docker.com/engine/install...

Another year, another set of change. In this field, the only constant is change.  I was able to get my hands on a set of Mikrotik switches to upgrade the existing network setup. Mikrotik makes great, low noise and low power switches. Their switches are packed...

SSH into your Bookstack instance. Navigate to the Bookstack directory, and run the folliowing: php artisan bookstack:clear-revisions This will bulk clear out all revision history on Bookstack.  Reference: https://www.bookstackapp.com/docs/admin/commands/#...

XCP-NG uses mdadm for its software RAID, if you have selected the RAID option during the XCP-NG install.  To rebuild the mdadm RAID, login to SSH to the XCP-NG host.  Run the following to check the current mdadm RAID information, and note down the mdadm RAID...

The mdadm utility in Linux is used for creating, managing and monitoring software RAID setups. RAID is a method for combining multiple disk drives into a single unit to improve performance, redundancy, or both. Checking Existing Array You can check if there...

A high availability Pi-Hole setup takes redundancy to the next level, through the use of Gravity Sync and Keepalived.  Gravity-Sync is a tool that can keep multiple Pi-Hole in sync with each other. Keepalived is a powerful and flexible tool for High Availabi...

Downloading WinBox WinBox is a Windows-based configuration utility developed by MikroTik for managing and configuring devices running RouterOS. It provides a GUI that simplifies the management of MikroTik devices. WinBox can be found and downloaded from http...