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Short and clear: which type of Nextcloud installation should I choose - LXC, VM or Docker?

Nextcloud is a popular solution for creating your own cloud data storage. In this article, we will look at various ways to install Nextcloud, their pros and cons. To begin with, there are several ways to install Nextcloud: directly on the server, in a virtual machine, in Docker manually or in Docker via the automatic AIO stack. You can also install Nextcloud in an LXC container. Nextcloud is a popular solution for creating your own cloud data storage. In this article, we will look at various ...
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Lenovo ThinkAgile VX3320 review - a hyperconverged solution for simplified enterprise-wide vSAN deployment

... standard for building virtualization platforms in the corporate environment. Lenovo has released ... becoming the standard for building virtualization platforms in the corporate ... list of VMware at the stage of online configuration of virtualization nodes ... from both vCenter and Lenovo XClarity Administrator. The setup process is almost ... combines VMware vSphere 7, VMware vSAN, VMware NSX-T, VMware vRealize Suite and VMware Tanzu ... model, the development of container virtualization, IoT systems and hybrid ...
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Review of Lenovo ThinkEdge SE50 and SE30-industrial and peripheral PCs based on Core i7 with passive cooling

These are universal computers that can simultaneously be used in production, at peripheral facilities, and are equally well suited for PC-controlled equipment, for building control rooms, laboratories, and engineering workplaces. No moving parts concept, 4G/LTE support with eSIM, DIN rail mount and RS232 ports. The development of robotics and automation of workplaces today has led to the fact that the OT industry (short for operational technologies), which includes a system for receiving ...
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Review of the 4-CPU Lenovo SR860 V2 server based on Intel Xeon Cooper Lake

A very interesting server with a price of $ 1M, created for SAP HANA and applications with high RAM consumption. Here, the processors are located one above the other, there are 3 TB of memory, 4 power supplies, monitoring with predictive analysis of breakdowns and 48 storage slots. Today we are testing a very special server from the family of vertically scalable x86 systems. The Lenovo SR860V2 quad-processor is designed to handle mission-critical workloads such as transactional and resident ...
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Storage and backup of virtual machines on QNAP NAS

In small companies, NAS can significantly reduce infrastructure costs. Those who decommissioned servers yesterday by moving resources to the NAS are canceling their subscriptions to the software that QNAP performs out of the box today. And now the time has come when QNAP swooped down on the sacred: the reservation of virtual machines. In 2019, the world market for backup and data recovery software, according to estimates by Allied Market Research, amounted to $ 9.3 billion. An article of ...
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How water displaces air in Lenovo supercomputers

A couple of years ago, the maximum air cooling limit was 600W per unit. Today, it is theoretically possible to divert up to 1.2 kW per unit using air. However, in the future, you will need to allocate 2 KW, and you can't do without liquid cooling. Today, there is a steady trend to extract the maximum power from each computing unit of the data center. Users want to see more and more local disk storage inside data center nodes, and circulatory data transfer systems that combine cluster ...
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QSAN XN8012R Storage Review: Virtualization + ZFS Onboard!

Many specialists of small organizations clearly understand the advantages of ZFS and can justify to the management the savings from software LZ4 compression and deduplication when buying a new storage system, but there were no inexpensive solutions for this file system. But a holy place is never empty, and QSAN decided to combine in one device everything that we love in Linux and everything that we value in ZFS. Today, many technical experts believe that ZFS is something that works only ...
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Big test Synology Active Backup for business - recovering from backup in 11 seconds!

... created a small test setup in which we first ... some comments: our test setup is divided into two parts ... the server HWP (Debian 9, LAMP, Bitrix, 120 GB data, ... Regardless of the incremental step with which the copies were ... disk spaces and nested virtualization Copying Windows hosts will require ... virtualization to work under Synology VMM, although this recovery worked with VMware ... is completely restored. But virtualization requires large amounts of ... is the most significant step for the company in ...
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Synology VMM Pro - testing failover virtualization cluster

Synology is expanding the capabilities of its hypervisor and in the Pro version it is possible to create a failover cluster. We tested non-stop migration, crash recovery and also showed how BTRFS can save disk space when using a dozen virtual machines. Traditionally for Synology, every step here is intuitive and logical. Today any small company has its own IT resources, which grow along with the growth and development of the company. One or two services can still be kept on a dedicated ...
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Synology Virtual Machine Manager hypervisor - first step into converged architectures

... interfaces appeared in the Synology lineup, a little later the ... thinking, `` What is this virtualization platform that is installed on ... solutions from HP, Dell and Lenovo . And this opportunity to ... the company's infrastructure, virtualization can be managed from the ... the cluster. A dedicated virtualized DSM can automatically or manually ... as a first step into the field of virtualization technologies, everything is ... Many functions that in Microsoft, VMware and Oracle products require installation ...