Month: April 2021

NIACtool v2.9.4 Released (RVtools for Nutanix AHV)

NIACtool v2.9.4 Released (RVtools for Nutanix AHV)

If you are looking for a tool to export inventory information from Nutanix AHV, look no further than the NIACTool. It is basically the AHV equivalent of RVtools for vSphere. Hot off the press is v2.9.4, which has a laundry list of improvements:  GUI optimization Improved cli. (securepass) Timeout set...

Microsoft 365: Can now send email as Proxy Address

Microsoft 365: Can now send email as Proxy Address

What has been literally years in the making, Microsoft has just now enabled Microsoft 365 users to send email as a proxy (alias) address. Why is this news? Well Gmail Suite and other business email services have had this feature forever, and some businesses have a hard requirement for such...

Nutanix Move 4.0 is now GA!

Nutanix Move 4.0 is now GA!

Hot off the press is Nutanix Move 4.0. What is Nutanix Move? Move is our free VM mobility tool that allows you to migrate VMs between various hypervisors and hyperscaler clouds. And you can run the Move appliance on either AHV or ESXi hypervisors. What's new in Move 4.0? Supports...

How-to: Adding SSH Keys to OPNsense

How-to: Adding SSH Keys to OPNsense

If you enable SSH access on your OPNsense firewall, for the best security you should use SSH keys and disable username/password logins. This blog post will guide you through the quick and easy process of creating SSH keys, installing them, and then configuring OPNsense to only allow SSH key logins....

How-To: Redirect hardcoded DNS to OPNsense

How-To: Redirect hardcoded DNS to OPNsense

In a previous post a while back I wrote how to capture outbound DNS queries with your Ubiquiti EdgeRouter and forward them to Pi-Hole. Now that I've transitioned to OPNsense + NextDNS (replacing my EdgeRouter and Pi-Hole), I wanted to post how to do the same thing in OPNsense. Why...

How-to: NextDNS + OPNsense Firewall

How-to: NextDNS + OPNsense Firewall

Recently I've been re-doing my home network, and I'm now using the OPNsense firewall, replacing my Ubiquiti EdgeRouter 12 with a more robust solution. For OPNsense I selected the PROTECTLI FW6D platform, which has 6 ports and an Intel i5-8250U CPU. I've also been running Pi-Hole on my network for...