Update: 2025 for NSX4.x VMware NSX-T™ Data Center provides an agile software-defined infrastructure to build cloud-native application environments. NSX-T Data Center focuses on providing networking, security, automation, and operational simplicity for emerging application frameworks and architectures that have heterogeneous endpoint…
This blog entry is a cheat sheet for various Avamar commands and options required during deployment or day-to-day operations.
Direct Routing: referred to as DR, adopts a semi open network structure, similar to the structure of TUN mode (IP tunnel), but the nodes are not scattered in different places, but located in the same physical network with the scheduler.…
Prometheus is a free software application used for event monitoring and alerting. It records real-time metrics in a time series database (allowing for high dimensionality) built using a HTTP pull model, with flexible queries and real-time alerting. Prometheus also has…
Netdata is an open source tool designed to collect real-time metrics, such as CPU usage, disk activity, bandwidth usage, website visits, etc., and then display them in live, easy-to-interpret charts. This post will cover how to create a Netdata “parent’…
Some us of don’t want to run PiHole, but do wish to run an AdBlock system either in DNS or integrated with our proxy server. provides a solution to both. This entry will describe how to integrate an Adblock…
Sometimes it is very useful to filter most of the data coming out of each ESXi host. The destination logging servers will have cleaner logs as most junk is filtered out. This post will define the current defined filters and…
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Ubiquiti Edgerouter Remote VPN/L2TP client configuration on IPv4 using radius authentication. Ubiquiti does not (yet) support IPv6 L2TP.
Freedom Internet provides fibre optic (glasvezel) connections on various infrastructures, primarily the KPN network. This post will provides instructions to implementing a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter in combination with this service for IPv4, IPv6 and IPTV. This instruction will skip multi network…
HAProxy is a free and open source software that provides a high availability load balancer and proxy server for TCP and HTTP-based applications that spreads requests across multiple servers. It is written in C and has a reputation for being…
The System Security Services Daemon is software originally developed for the Linux operating system that provides a set of daemons to manage access to remote directory services and authentication mechanisms. The beginnings of SSSD lie in the open-source software project…