Run your small DNS server with MaraDNS

Posted on March 3, 2021March 3, 2021 by Luca Dell'Oca Leave a comment

For a new project I started last week I needed a DNS server in my home office. Usually, my router is my dns resolver, but it doesn’t allow to create authoritative zones. Windows 10 running on my laptop doesn’t have a DNS server either, and I don’t have an hypervisor in my home office to build a virtual machine; and it wouldn’t even be useful to spend so much time doing it for then using the DNS just a couple of hours.
So, I looked around and I found this tiny cool project called MaraDNS, that was perfect for my use case.

Installing Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Luca Dell'Oca Leave a comment

I received a few weeks ago a preview of this software from my colleagues that are developing it, and I wanted to try it out and show it to other people.

Test your jekyll website locally on Windows 10

Posted on December 1, 2020November 30, 2020 by Luca Dell'Oca

Learn how to install Jekyll on your Windows 10 computer, so you can see how your markdown websites will look like without the need to publish them.

Quick fix: install manually the Veeam Service Provider Console agent on Cloud Connect server

Posted on April 21, 2020April 20, 2020 by Luca Dell'Oca

Learn how to install manually the Veeam Service Provider Console managementagent on a Veeam Cloud Connect server.

Upgrading Veeam Availability Console to the new Veeam Service Provider Console v4

Posted on April 7, 2020April 14, 2020 by Luca Dell'Oca

Last week, Veeam released the new Veeam Service Provider Console v4, the latest version of what was previously called Veeam Availability Console. I run my own VAC (now VSPC) environment, so I decided to take the opportunity to upgrade my lab to the latest version to learn the upgrade process.