IT Infrastructure Architect

This article is the third in a series on building an Infrastructure Architecture system. The previous two articles discussed the conceptual case for building such a system and explored functions and relationships in a High-Level design. This article, the first of many Low-Level designs, will…

The article shares a simple way of backing up multiple Proxmox VE hosts using a single script. The Proxmox VE host backup gap Proxmox VE lacks an official way of backing up hosts. To address, some commentators suggest scripts to backup individual Proxmox VE hosts,…

TailScale is a Wireguard-based hosted SDN and VPN provider with a per-user per-device business model. They have a free tier that enables up to three users access to 100 devices each in a device-to-device virtual mesh network. However, TailScale can be levered in a system,…

Maybe it's just me, or does everyone in IT seem to be an Architect of some sort or another these days? Architecture seems to have become a fashionable IT buzzword, and this seeds confusion regarding the duties and responsibilities of architects. This can create risk…

Here is a simple snippet for timing file system performance. I wrote this as part of a script to detect an infrequent but recurrent error mode on a NAS that causes performance degradation. I run the script hourly from a Linux host with a CIFS…