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I waste my money so you don't have to? In this article I explore potential uses for a Dell Wyse 3040 in my homelab, and I identify some roles to which it is definitely not well suited. I recently purchased a Dell Wye 3040 Thin…

An article called VMware Tools for Debian 10 arm64 on ESXi-Arm on Virten.net explains that a compiled version of Open VM Tools is not available in repositories for ARM builds of many common guest operating systems. Their workaround is to compile a version from the…

The free license option for VMWare ESXi lacks the backup APIs enabled by a vSphere license. Here is a simple script that I use instead to backup my guest VMs on my VMWare ESXi running on a Raspberry Pi 4. The script assumes: Use SSH,…

The low-power Raspberry Pi is an excellent platform for the modest compute requirements of an always-on Active Directory (AD) Domain Controller (DC). However, building a DC from scratch on a Raspberry Pi can be complex, and few options exist for running AD in a container…

A significant proportion of your Internet traffic is likely to be concerned with tracking you to serve you with ever more intrusive adverts. Use an Ad Blocker like PiHole to firstly block ads and tracking, and then to build a Protective DNS service to protect…

Here is how I overcame problems configuring dhcpcd.conf on a Raspberry Pi to resolve hosts in subdomains of a local DNS server in my home lab. Dhcpcd The dhcpcd client on a Raspberry Pi is pre-configured to allow easy and quick connection to a simple…

WMWare's vision to push their HyperVisor to the network edge has enabled ESXi to run on small ARM devices such as the Raspberry Pi 4. Having lived with the ESXi 7.0 on Arm Fling on a Raspberry Pi 4 for just over a year now,…

From time to time, Nextcloud may fail to synchronise files because of file locks. Plenty of resources are available on the internet to help clear locks on MySQL databases, but few exist for clearing locks from the default SQLite database that the official Nextcloud Docker…