Since beginning of time, I have always used Windows AD Server for my homelab. And it has worked well for my purpose, which is nothing so complex other than some usual testing. What I really did hate about it is Windows OS by it’s nature is very resource intensive and sometimes unstable :). Being very noob
PowerShell Quick Script – Delete all databases from list of instances
I have been using this amazing PowerShell module called dbatools (can be downloaded from https://dbatools.io/) for a while. This is basically a module that has bunch of very very handy commands that can be used to do lot of SQL Server administrative operations very easily… for example, migrate database to another instance\server, restore collection of
Installing Nano in pfSense
pfSesne being based on FreeBSD, it always had FreeBSD darling VI installed in it. So if you ever need to modify anything over SSH, you will end up using VI as editor. Now, if there is anything… I always have loved to learn new stuff but VI is on another level when it comes to
Curious case of pfSense
So after my last not-so great experience with prosumer grade stuff, I dwelled more deeper into depth of Router/Firewall OS. After spending some time reading, I decided to give pfSense a try. And it has been working fine for me for a while. There are many things to learn and possibilities are limitless (along with
pfSense – my new choice of router
After my not so great experience with prosumer grade router UDM, I got more curious and tried to look for alternative of that. And I found that there are more than few options available… some of which are open source and free. Among them pfSense was seem to be popular and offered similar feature with
My close encounter with another kind … another kind of Router that is
Well… as title says this post is about my experince with new shiney toy that I tried from Unify called Unify Dream Machine. Story goes like this… I have decent enough internet connection that gets me 200 Mbps downstream and 12 Mbps upstream (I know I know it is not Gigabit) but I use router
Copy ISOs for Proxmox
After my recent discovery of this great virtualization tool, everyday I am getting amazed by all features this software has and I am learning something new everyday. Just like any other hypervisor, in order to create VM (or container) it needs source in form of ISO file. The way Proxmox works is, it stores these