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NFS 3 and NFS 4.1 are both supported storage protocols for VMware ESXi, but they differ significantly in architecture, security, multipathing, and operational capabilities. This guide compares NFS 3 and NFS 4.1 to help VMware administrators choose the right protocol…
NFS datastore mount errors in VMware ESXi can prevent virtual machines from accessing shared storage and may be caused by network connectivity, NFS permissions, firewall rules, DNS, or protocol mismatches. Identifying the root cause requires checking both the ESXi host…
Choosing between NFS and iSCSI for ESXi shared storage is one of those decisions that looks simple on paper and gets complicated fast once you factor in your actual array, network, licensing tier, and operational team. Both protocols run over…
This covers setting up email notifications in Uptime Kuma for two distinct audiences your internal team (managers, ops) and your customers with separate channels, appropriate detail levels for each, and the alert types you asked about (outages, recovery, and other…
VMware vSphere 9 is a release of VMware’s advanced virtualization platform that enables users to manage and scale virtualization infrastructures. The platform is designed for enterprises and organizations to more effectively manage their hardware resources and take advantage of virtualization technologies. Key features…
An expired SSL certificate is one of the most preventable outages in existence the failure is predictable to the day, weeks in advance, and yet it still takes down production services regularly because nobody was watching the expiry date. Uptime…
Prometheus and Grafana handle metrics well. What they don’t do natively is active black-box probing actually reaching out to an endpoint on a schedule and confirming it responds. That’s normally solved with blackbox_exporter, which works but requires writing and maintaining…
Home Assistant is very good at reacting to things a door opens, a sensor trips, a time of day arrives. It’s less good, out of the box, at continuously polling whether your Nextcloud instance, your reverse proxy, or your Pi-hole…
Why Monitoring Matters in a Home Lab A Proxmox home lab tends to grow quietly. You start with one VM, then a couple of LXC containers for Pi-hole and Home Assistant, then a Docker host for a handful of self-hosted…
Ask “Uptime Kuma or Beszel?” in a homelab forum and you’ll get answers that talk past each other, because the question itself is malformed. It’s like asking whether you need a smoke detector or a thermometer. Both tell you something…
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