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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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Short and sweet: how to choose a RAID/HBA controller for the server

... The hardware RAID should be chosen for servers running VMware vSphere operating ... software RAID (LVM, ZFS) running Proxmox VE. For Windows Server, you ... can choose both hardware RAID and HBA, ... your operating system. Windows Server and Proxmox VE have a ... usually do not pose problems. VMware, on the contrary, has ... . As for performance Hardware RAID provides higher performance and reliability ... purchase a hardware RAID controller for Windows Server and individual VMware ESX servers ...
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Server fans: what they are, how they work

Server fans play a key role in maintaining the temperature at an optimal level. They operate at high speeds to ensure sufficient airflow within the server system, thereby cooling it. Most server fans are designed to operate at different speeds, which significantly enhances their efficiency. This means that when the server system is under load, the server fans operate at higher speeds to increase cooling, and when the load is light, the speed decreases. The main function of server fans is to ...
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What can Synology be replaced with in the conditions of sanctions. Part 2: Choosing a software

... folder is unavailable when the server boots (for example, it ... capable of replacing Synology Media Server. It is better to ... Proxmox has its own Backup Server product with deduplication and incremental ... the virtual machine. Backups of VMware, Hyper-V and QEMU ... here: everyone wants money for VMware backups, and only  Vincin ... method - using a hardware RAID controller where the disk load ... drives, mixing ZFS and hardware RAID, and you will never ... you can plan to decommission VMware, Veeam and Hyper-V, ...
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Lenovo ThinkAgile VX3320 review - a hyperconverged solution for simplified enterprise-wide vSAN deployment

... - the use of RAID-5 (Erasure Coding) , RAID-6 (Erasure Coding) ... can read more about this saving in the study from VMware ( ... now supplied with the installer (read  user manual ). When you ... not as a "server compatible with VMware", but as a ... should be shown by arbitrary read operations in large blocks. ... will test for the RAID-1 and RAID-5 storage policies ... we talk about comparing RAID-5 and RAID-1, there is ... selected for databases with predominant read operations. Conclusion The software- ...
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Article about vertical wall-mounting of servers

An interesting solution for home laboratories, small test rooms or maintenance-free points where 1-2-3 pieces of equipment are placed, and every square centimeter is worth its weight in gold I often came up with the idea: why not place servers vertically, because if you do not have a special server rack, but have a 1U-4U machine, and even a full length of 655 mm, then this bandura will take up the entire room, the entire table or rack. No, I'm not saying that server cabinets are outdated and ...
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Palit GeForce GTX 1660 Super review: testing a novelty in computing and machine learning

The new series of video cards GTX 1660 Super is interesting, first of all, because of the high bandwidth GDDR6 memory. This is exactly what you need for machine learning tasks and work in Tensorflow. At a minimum, you can build your own Google Colab counterpart in a Mini-ITX package. In the fall of 2018, Nvidia released a line of RTX graphics cards based on chips codenamed Turing, which have built-in tensor and RT cores. The community of enthusiasts using conventional gaming graphics cards ...
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RAID as the main attribute of the server

In this article, we will look at the advantages offered by RAID arrays and compare four IDE RAID controllers from manufacturers such as 3ware, Adaptec, HighPoint and Promise. Today hard drive manufacturers are very tough competition among themselves. In this struggle, they are forced to increase the volume of their hard drives, releasing larger and larger disks. Unfortunately, the volume of media is often counterbalanced by their reliability. Most HDD manufacturers have already reduced the ...
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Synology Virtual Machine Manager hypervisor - first step into converged architectures

... such as the Microsoft Exchange server, available only for Windows, ... installed as a VmWare ESXi on a blank server, but as ... surveillance system and an Asterisk server , and cloud sync services. ... computer. The data transfer rate over a gigabit network is ... functions that in Microsoft, VMware and Oracle products require installation ... DS1817P in multi-threaded read and write mode to ... RAM Intel DS3500 SSD RAID 1 VMware vSphere ESXi 6.5 ... allocation of virtual machines, like VMware Sphere ESXi. Otherwise, it ...
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Synology DS1010+ review: keep your data in business class

... processor and is certified for VMWare Sphere. It can be ... as RAID 50 or RAID 60 are not supported by the server, ... removal of disks from the server. Generally, in the corporate ... with Thecus N5500. The server can send notifications about various ... RAID 1 Basic - RAID 5 RAID 1 - RAID 5 RAID 5 - RAID 5 + Hot Spare RAID 5 - RAID ... 6 That is, migration from RAID ... the file server processor, we used a RAID 5 or RAID 6 ... the file server's CPU, and in a complex RAID 6 ...