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CHAPTERS:
0:00 – Intro
0:42 – Backup testing
3:24 – Remote workstation deployment
4:31 – TrueNAS Update
5:55 – Ubiquiti Cloud Security Incident
13:38 – UniFi Express
14:02 – Tailscale vs Twingate
18:25 – Privacy conscious cloud backup provider
19:00 – When money changes hands, bias comes into play
21:20 – Tailscale
22:35 – 3rd Party Backup Providers
23:58 – Shoutout to DB Tech
24:23 – TwinGates
25:00 – YouTube Ad Revenue
26:40 – XCP-ng Backups
27:30 – XEN vs XCP-ng Performance
29:16 – Idiots Guide to Virtualization
32:34 – Migrating from ESXi to XCP-ng
33:40 – How Much Code is Really Open Source
37:04 – Moving Proxmox Containers
37:13 – Broadcom Offloading Products
38:00 – Running Services on the Hypervisor vs Firewall
39:48 – Tailscale
40:56 – MFA
41:50 – VMware
42:16 – Tailscale
44:00 – VMWare Perpetual Licensing
46:14 – Pi-hole
47:08 – Pirated Software
48:08 – Passkeys
48:50 – pfSense Plus + pfBlocker
49:26 – Replacing UDM Pro with pfSense
51:10 – Buying hard drives in bulk
53:11 – Non-UniFi switches
54:13 – High availability with 1 on-prem head scale and 1 tailscale from the cloud
54:25 – Bare metal Linux
54:38 – GoHardDrive
54:50 – XCP-ng vs Proxmox
57:16 – Leaving the UDM Pro and adding pfSense
57:40 – SAS drives
57:50 – Netgate 4200
58:00 – LINBIT DRBD
1:01:17 – Polish Security Researchers Hacked Trains
1:03:16 – Proxmox vs ESXi
1:05:10 – Is Kubernetes Essential
1:08:25 – Ceph vs Other Storage Solutions
1:10:06 – Clonezilla Booting
1:12:31 – Encrypted Email
1:12:54 – Will Technology Overtake On-Prem IT
1:13:20 – Best Conferences
1:13:40 – DevOps and SRE
1:13:51 – NetApp
1:15:36 – Pure Storage
1:16:57 – How to Get a Job at an MSP
1:18:40 – Nessus
1:23:20 – Does XCP-ng send to a 7
1:25:04 – Backup recommendations for SysAdmin Abacus
1:29:14 – What metrics do you use for techs at your MSP
1:29:43 – CPU for Proxmox server
1:30:10 – Synology backup in enterprise
1:30:35 – Duplicati
1:31:53 – Netgate 4200
1:32:00 – Acronis Cyber Cloud
1:35:20 – Tailscale and firewall rules
1:35:42 – Synology Directory Server
1:36:38 – Is it too late to get into IT
1:37:20 – IPv6
1:38:18 – Synology server options
1:41:45 – Recent Struggles Migrating Data
1:45:34 – Print, Sign, Scan, and Email
1:49:00 – How YouTubers Optimize
1:53:39 – Lenovo WiFi Not Working
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windows server dns
3 PAR sucks, basically anything HPE sucks.
First
many moons ago when we would build physical servers, one of the senior admins would make us install windows, run a backup, and then destroy the raid array and make sure we could get the server back before turning it over to the business unit
Wait until you go down the rabbit hole of virtualizing the firewall itself as a VM and dedicating appliance WAN/LAN interfaces to that VM to further isolate them away from the hypervisor.
That's a huge thing in the corporate IT world right now. Have worked on many such a server. For the most part it's stable and makes backing up and restoring the entire firewall itself a snap but only if it's done right. Really the only issue is hardware failing (disk, NIC, SFP, fiber cable, etc.).
I run a virtualized firewall at home myself and it works great…until ATT decides to update the firmware on their fiber modem and reboot it out from under me at 9am on a workday. Eventually I'm going to get that fiber hardwired into the same box running the virtualized firewall and be done with those issues.
Hey Tom, Do you think XCPNG will have a plugin for TrueNAS to help manage Storage Volumes or provision a new lun or etc?
I bet you cannot configure a TrueNAS Scale OpenVPN Client to connect to a remote pfsense firewall.
Just got a you tube ad for Huntress. Finally the ad algorithm is working.
Thoughts on OpenVPN Cloud? 14:17
"Untested backups are wishful thinking" -> some image showing a fantasy world. Disneyland or something.
My painful example: I had one disk backed up to a second disk. "Yay!". Years later one of those drives was failing, so I bought a much larger disk, and then without thinking it happened that I put BOTH filesystems on the same disk (since the new disk was much more than twice the size of the older disks) when re-organizing all my disks. A few years later that newer disk died, and I went to restore files … from the same disk. Oops!
Thanks
15:30 – I always appreciate your transparency when it comes to this kind of stuff. You're actually the first person who's ever actually specified an actual dollar amount as to what YouTubers are getting paid for the "sponsored reviews"