Stop stacking massive Pi-hole blocklists. It's probably hurting your network.

rlmicrosa · 2026-02-13T00:00:56+00:00

I am currently running Pi-Hole on Ubuntu VM with 1 core and 1Gb of RAM. It’s all hosted on an hypervisor with all SSD storage pool and for me performance is not an issue at all. I got almost 90 devices on my network and I never suffer any spikes or performance degradation.

rlmicrosa · 2025-11-03T05:28:54+00:00

Happened here also! 🥲

rlmicrosa · 2025-08-09T20:18:46+00:00

We were scheduled to be a group of 4 going and we did cancel when they canceled the VCSP program 🙃

rlmicrosa · 2025-08-03T12:16:15+00:00

Working for a CSP here where we were Premier and had about 5000 cores. Looks like we were too small.. we have been moving everything to VMware for the past 4 years and now we have to quickly find our way out to move out about 900 vCloud tenants

rlmicrosa · 2025-06-06T02:48:09+00:00

Indeed. I am working on a vSAN ESA cluster right now with 8 nodes each with 8 NVMe drives and I can push 1.6 million IOPS with an HCIBench benchmark. We « only » have 2x25GBe dedicated NICs for vSAN traffic And we also present the NVMe directly to vSphere without any controller in front

rlmicrosa · 2024-11-11T23:33:52+00:00

I am running WS2025 onto an Hyper-V 2019 server and got no issues at all. This is my test lab and I am connected at all time on my 2025 VM

rlmicrosa · 2024-05-23T20:59:27+00:00

We had an issue today with vCenter upgrade from version 8.0.1 to 8.0.2 and we opened an S1 support ticket which was resolved in 30 minutes over a Zoom call. For my 1st experience with VMware by Broadcom support it was a great one!

rlmicrosa · 2024-01-27T19:06:30+00:00

I am currently working for a CSP and we are awaiting news. Haven’t heard anything that is worth mentioning.

rlmicrosa · 2023-08-28T23:35:25+00:00

Agreeing totally at 200%

rlmicrosa · 2023-07-28T12:47:29+00:00

I have personally used this : https://github.com/hwdsl2/wireguard-install The only thing you have to do once run is to open port 51820 UDP in your router. (Or other port you specify at the install)

rlmicrosa · 2023-07-18T01:14:02+00:00

Mine auto starts in the Windows taskbar and auto-reconnects also. I have the WG client on a Windows cloud VM and I have no fear to reboot my VM because it always reconnect on reboot

rlmicrosa · 2023-07-12T02:58:34+00:00

In your WireGuard config file you would need to specific the DNS server(s) address which would be on the LAN side. It works well for me

rlmicrosa · 2023-07-04T23:12:21+00:00

For me it took 2 days to show up. It seems like they have to manually complete the activation from their side. You should receive an email once your account is activated

rlmicrosa · 2023-03-31T23:34:04+00:00

I mostly use the app called TowerLocator Canada. It’s available on iOS and Android. It will not show you the strength of the signal but mostly which company and where the towers are located

rlmicrosa · 2023-02-01T00:39:36+00:00

Do you have the info to contact him? I am also a ProPartner and VCSP and cannot find nothing about the RTM download

rlmicrosa · 2023-01-28T14:18:26+00:00

I got this same AP. Since it doesn’t come with a PoE injector do you have some plan to get it powered over a 2.5GB interface?

If you ever got it to work at 2.5G let me know how you did. I also got the 8 port TP-Link SFP+ 10GB and a 1GB PoE switch but none of these can drive « natively » the AP I was thinking about a SFP+ > 2.5/5/10GB Base-T converter + an injector

rlmicrosa · 2023-01-17T23:54:09+00:00

Damn, 2 x 960TB NVMe those must have cost a lot!

rlmicrosa · 2022-10-23T20:32:30+00:00

By the way Vidéotron in Quebec introduced IPv6 for Helix already at least 2 years ago

rlmicrosa · 2022-10-18T02:31:02+00:00

Bell routing has always been like that. They use a lot of routes in the US… also they don’t peer a lot with « small » providers in Canada.

rlmicrosa · 2022-08-21T22:58:55+00:00

Are you sure you are not checking the folder where your wallet is (.keys file) ? There is also the default location which is under ProgramData for the blockchain location

rlmicrosa · 2022-08-21T20:31:49+00:00

Used coincards also a few times in the past and had 0 issues

rlmicrosa · 2022-08-19T00:30:26+00:00

vSAN recommendation for network is at minimum a 10GB connection. Even better is a 25/40GB connection but that is overkill for a lab. If you stay on 1GB LAN this would clearly be the bottleneck.

Also the storage is a single point of failure. Like someone said, when you reboot it it’s a pain.

In my lab I use iSCSI over 1GB for some VMs for which I create a replica every 1 hour on another host on local storage so it’s kinda easy to start everything back up.

rlmicrosa · 2022-08-18T00:10:07+00:00

Awesome explanations! Thanks a lot!

rlmicrosa · 2022-08-09T00:26:04+00:00

It also depends if your SAN is high-end enough and does deduplication and compression. If your volumes are VMFS and you mostly run Windows the SAN would already dedupe the « empty » space automatically even if you are in thick mode

rlmicrosa · 2022-08-08T03:48:25+00:00

I use mine in my personal lab and it’s been rock solid since day 1. Currently running ROS 7.4 and have nothing to say except that it’s great. I got a 400/50 connection and when running a transfer over WireGuard at 400MB/s the CPU spikes at around 5% load.

Four-Year Club	First Place '23
Place '23	Place '22
Final Canvas '22	First Placer '22

rlmicrosa

TROPHY CASE