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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

RAID controllers have not left and are not going to, on the contrary, hardware controllers for NVME and PCI Express drives (including M2 format drives) are entering the market. The abundance of drives and software features of RAID/HBA make you approach this choice as responsibly as possible, otherwise you may lose data. RAID controllers have not left and are not going to, on the contrary, hardware controllers for NVME and PCI Express drives (including M2 format drives) are entering the ...
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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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Lenovo ThinkAgile VX3320 review - a hyperconverged solution for simplified enterprise-wide vSAN deployment

Hyperconverged systems are rapidly gaining popularity and are already becoming the standard for building virtualization platforms in the corporate environment. Lenovo has released a special series of servers for installing and running VMware vSAN with tools for simplified administration and deployment at the customer's facility. The ideology of hyperconvergent solutions using VMware technologies has its advantages: this is a relatively low cost at the start, and the ability to scale almost ...
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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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Storage and backup of virtual machines on QNAP NAS

... can become a platform for virtualization. You can run powerful ... can work for them as iSCSI/NFS storage. If the ... seconds, and is native to virtualization. Since it is completely ... 2 SSD (read how virtualization and tier-ing works in ... your organization. Connecting to VMWare vSphere QNAP itself recommends connecting ... VMware ESXi 6.7 U3 VMware ESXi 7.01. beta Windows Server ... a hypervisor with a powerful virtualization system, it cannot restore ... on which Hyper-V virtualization is selected as the ...
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Synology UC3200 Review: affordable dual-controller iSCSI storage

... from Synology, marketed as iSCSI storage for virtualization hosts. We will test ... system for virtualization hosts, you will choose between NFS and iSCSI protocols ... Hyper-V, OpenStack Cinder or VMware ESXi servers, which we will ... your own hardware and container virtualization ... none of this is ... 10 OS: VMWare ESXi 6.7U3 Windows Server 2016 iSCSI Connection LUN file ... s surprising to me that VMware's iSCSI initiator performs worse than ... company already uses a Synology Server and would like to purchase ...
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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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QNAP TS-2483XU-RP review: 24-disk head unit NAS

QNAP has got very interesting monstrous NAS-s for working with large amounts of data. The storage system under consideration today with a head unit for 24 3.5-inch hard drives makes it possible to pack 384 TB of data into one system and do without expansion shelves at all, which may be quite enough for the needs of a small enterprise. QNAP has got very interesting monstrous NAS-s for working with large amounts of data. The model under review with the long name TS-2483XU-RP is a data storage ...
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QSAN XN8012R Storage Review: Virtualization + ZFS Onboard!

... , the presence of built-in virtualization makes it pointless to integrate ... backing up virtual machines for VMware ESX; as a cloud storage ... you can create folders and iSCSI volumes. Since you can use ... shared deduplication for folders and iSCSI volumes that use a file ... software functionality such as Tiering, virtualization and snapshots does not require ... how to set up a server, run virtualization and configure user access ... top-end QSAN XN8012R with virtualization and deduplication is comparable to ...