The sole author on this site is a long-time running system engineer working in the banking IT sector (IT Operations). Passionate about Mac, NAS/SAN, virtualization, and Docker environments.
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For anyone not familiar with Markdown it is a markup language for creating formatted text. It's been around for close to 20 years now and it's very popular in various situations. For example on blog platforms (like this one, Ghost), IM, forums, documentation software (like Bookstack)
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Table of Contents : Intro : VMM Installation & configuration * :: Prerequisites * :: Licensing : VM creation and configuration * :: vDSM * :: Linux VM * :: Windows VM : Tests & performance * :: HDD vs SSD? What about the NVMe cache? * :: VMM or external platform as a hypervisor : VM & VMM backups : Conclusion : Intro Even if you are an experienced user
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📢UPDATE: 26/10/2022 - Drive 3.2 beta has been completed. All the features are now accessible as part of the final release version. 🗒️UPDATE: 26/08/2022 - Install on macOS 12.5.1 was successful, but Drive was unable to start and configure. The install process went
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:Intro Back in April, I did an article on self-hosted start page alternatives. In that article, I did mention more than a few solutions but only wrote about a few of them, as well as showed how to run them in a Docker container. While star pages are not the
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🎁During the month of November, there will be a 50% Black Friday discount on a yearly subscription. Follow this link! 🎁EARLY BIRD 30% discount offer for a yearly subscription! Be sure to use the following link to get it! 📢UPDATE: 17/08/2022 - Since today, the Ghost docker image
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With the rollout of DSM 7 last year, Synology has been very active with its C2 cloud platform and services. At the moment there is a total of seven (7) C2 services ranging from backup to password management, all the way to surveillance and object storage. While some of these
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⚠️WARNING: 10/08/2022 - New version of DSM is out, 7.1.1-42951. At the moment this is a release candidate, so be sure not to rush into installing it onto your main production units! 🚀10/08/2022 - Updated some devices to the latest version with no problems
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This article is mainly for the new users that are coming into the Synology NAS eco-system. While most brands have a decent number of apps that can run on their devices, Synology is known to cannibalize some of its apps and services and roll out new ones over time. Because
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Many Synology customers are in fact home users, small businesses, enthusiasts, and such. While for the most part, Synology devices have a 2y warranty (that can be extended to 4 or 5y, depending on your model using the new Extended Warranty Plus service), there are those from the business to
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💡This article is the second one out of the two Wireguard ones. This article is about running your Wireguard VPN server on your Synology NAS! For information on how to build an SPK package in order to give your NAS Wireguard support, use the article titled Wireguard SPK for your
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💡This article is the first out of the two Wireguard ones. This article is about building your SPK package for your Synology NAS using Docker in order to enable Wireguard support! For information on how to run your Wireguard server on your NAS use the second article, Wireguard VPN for
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For a while, I have been looking for a task/ticket management solution that I could self-host on my own. Using Docker you can run a huge number of apps and services on your hardware, and for the past 5 years now that is all I have been doing. No