Sunday Live Q&A: Server Updates, UniFi, Homelab, And Other Tech Topics
Channel: Lawrence Systems
Date: 2023-12-17

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CHAPTERS:  
0:00 - Intro
0:42 - Backup testing  
3:24 - Remote workstation deployment
4:31 - TrueNAS Update  
5:55 - Ubiquiti Cloud Security Incident
13:38 - UniFi Express 
14:02 - Tailscale vs Twingate  
18:25 - Privacy conscious cloud backup provider
19:00 - When money changes hands, bias comes into play  
21:20 - Tailscale
22:35 - 3rd Party Backup Providers
23:58 - Shoutout to DB Tech
24:23 - TwinGates
25:00 - YouTube Ad Revenue  
26:40 - XCP-ng Backups
27:30 - XEN vs XCP-ng Performance
29:16 - Idiots Guide to Virtualization 
32:34 - Migrating from ESXi to XCP-ng
33:40 - How Much Code is Really Open Source
37:04 - Moving Proxmox Containers 
37:13 - Broadcom Offloading  Products
38:00 - Running Services on the Hypervisor vs Firewall
39:48 - Tailscale
40:56 - MFA
41:50 - VMware 
42:16 - Tailscale
44:00 - VMWare Perpetual Licensing 
46:14 - Pi-hole 
47:08 - Pirated Software  
48:08 - Passkeys 
48:50 - pfSense Plus + pfBlocker
49:26 - Replacing UDM Pro with pfSense  
51:10 - Buying hard drives in bulk
53:11 - Non-UniFi switches
54:13 - High availability with 1 on-prem head scale and 1 tailscale from the cloud
54:25 - Bare metal Linux
54:38 - GoHardDrive 
54:50 - XCP-ng vs Proxmox
57:16 - Leaving the UDM Pro and adding pfSense
57:40 - SAS drives 
57:50 - Netgate 4200  
58:00 - LINBIT DRBD
1:01:17 - Polish Security Researchers Hacked Trains
1:03:16 - Proxmox vs ESXi  
1:05:10 - Is Kubernetes Essential
1:08:25 - Ceph vs Other Storage Solutions 
1:10:06 - Clonezilla Booting 
1:12:31 - Encrypted Email 
1:12:54 - Will Technology Overtake On-Prem IT
1:13:20 - Best Conferences 
1:13:40 - DevOps and SRE
1:13:51 - NetApp 
1:15:36 - Pure Storage
1:16:57 - How to Get a Job at an MSP 
1:18:40 - Nessus
1:23:20 - Does XCP-ng send to a 7
1:25:04 - Backup recommendations for SysAdmin Abacus 
1:29:14 - What metrics do you use for techs at your MSP
1:29:43 - CPU for Proxmox server
1:30:10 - Synology backup in enterprise
1:30:35 - Duplicati
1:31:53 - Netgate 4200
1:32:00 - Acronis Cyber Cloud
1:35:20 - Tailscale and firewall rules
1:35:42 - Synology Directory Server
1:36:38 - Is it too late to get into IT  
1:37:20 - IPv6
1:38:18 - Synology server options
1:41:45 - Recent Struggles Migrating Data  
1:45:34 - Print, Sign, Scan, and Email
1:49:00 - How YouTubers Optimize 
1:53:39 - Lenovo WiFi Not Working