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SAN (Storage) Basic's

A Storage Area Network (SAN) is a specialized network that provides block-level data storage. Unlike traditional file storage, SANs separate storage devices from servers, creating a dedicated, high-performance environment for accessing and managing storage.

NGINX Proxy Manager | HTTP Security Response Headers

For hardening/securing a website which uses NPM (Nginx Proxy Manager) as reverse proxy, its recommended to use security headers. Security headers are like an additional layer of security beside https. For this purpose we are going to implement those headers in our nginx proxy manager configuration which is of course running as Docker Container in our environment.

Pi-hole | IPv6 & Fritzbox

As default Pi-hole is processing IPv4 DNS requests. But nowadays your local clients receive also IPv6 addresses from your Router. So your clients are able to request IPv6 request, which would be bypassed your Pi-hole. This would also explain the “strange” behavior, why you’re getting furthermore some adds.

VMware | PowerCLI SSH

A short description about enabling/disabling SSH in bulk within vSphere Environment. At first we are going to figure out which hosts already have SSH enabled (or disabled) afterwards we disable (or enable) it.

Pi-hole | Privacy settings

This article is about Privacy Settings within Pi-Hole. If you want to disable logging for certain reasons for example to save disk space on your little raspberry pi or to be complaint with any necessary privacy requirement, then is could be a interesting article for you.

PowerShell | PowerCLI & ESXCLI

Managing and maintaining a huge VMware environment is always associated with a lot of effort… if you don’t use automation tools 😉

By automation tools I am thinking about PowerShell, the Vmware Module PowerCLI and the native CLI interface from vSphere Hosts ESXCLI.

Winget | Windows Package Manager

Winget is a Package Manager CLI based tool for Windows 10 + Windows 11. Winget makes it possible to manage Application through one central Package Manager, like ‘apt’ known from Linux based systems or Homebrew (brew) from macOS. With this Package Manager you will be able to install/update/discover and remove several Applications even those which are not installed through Winget. Isn’t it cool?