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Welcome to my "new" blog. Yes, you read correctly "new" blog. I had already started a blog on a very well-known blogging platform, but the totally outdated UI and usability really kept giving me problems. Fortunately, I recently got myself a very cheap VPS and created

Kubernetes Backup with Velero

Kubernetes Backup with Velero

As soon as you have set up your Kubernetes cluster and deployed a few containers, the question arises how to create backups. A very useful and comfortable tool for this is Velero. It can be easily installed via HELM and you can create backups and restores by a two single

Building a more advanced homelab setup with a dedicated server running VMware ESXi

Building a more advanced homelab setup with a dedicated server running VMware ESXi

This article builds on my previous article "Building a minmal homelab on Windows with Virtualbox and Vagrant within minutes". Especially for larger deployments, such as a multinode OpenStack or Kubernetes cluster, the small homelab setup with Virtualbox quickly reaches its limits. In this case, it makes sense to

How to incredibly increase TrueNAS VM NIC throughput

How to incredibly increase TrueNAS VM NIC throughput

I recently replaced my favourite OmniOS VM in my HomeLab with TrueNAS Core. Main reason for this was that I wanted to play around with the very cool VAAI features available in TrueNAS Core. I used VAAI ages ago with a NetApp system and I really liked the fact that

Building a minmal homelab on Windows with Virtualbox and Vagrant within minutes

Building a minmal homelab on Windows with Virtualbox and Vagrant within minutes

18 Dec 2022 • 4 min read If you want to build a flexible and inexpensive homelab and don't want to invest money in an additional server for the time being, then I can only recommend you to use a combination of Oracle Virtualbox and HashiCorp Vagrant. Both tools

How to install and setup TrueNAS Scale or how I replaced my two old Odroid HC2 by a single Odroid H2

How to install and setup TrueNAS Scale or how I replaced my two old Odroid HC2 by a single Odroid H2

It was finally time to replace my two old Odroid HC2s with something newer. I had them both running with a 3.5 inch 2TB hard drive each and they ran really well for a long time. But what never really worked well was ZFS. Who does not know ZFS,

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