Install Volumio on a VM

As we know, Volumio is one of the best audio control systems (for the Home, office…) But for now it has a small limitation, which is only allowed to be installed in physical (Raspberry Pi, X32/X64 or on the ASUS Tinkerboard). But, and if we want to provide it with high availability, Fast backup/restore… Or wow, have the advantages of being one more VM in our environment…

Creating our Floorplan or Animated House Plan in Home Assistant

In this post we are going to try to explain how we can make a plan of our house and integrate it into Home Assistant, with the intention of integrating the devices that we already have in Hassio and giving life to the plan. It is something very attractive and above all visual, It is something they will appreciate at home, since with an image we can see the state of our home and we can interact from it with the devices that we add.

Fortigate VM

For all those who don't know him here's this post, Introducing the Fortinet Virtual Appliance, the Fortigate-VM firewall, in virtual machine format will provide us with all the advantages of having the Fortigate firewall virtualized in our network (high availability, Cross-network FW, Backup/Replica…) Of course,, only for VMware vSphere environments!

Installing and configuring Citrix XenDesktop 5

This article that I had pending publication was the new version of Citrix's XenDesktop where you will see the installation and configuration, this is Citrix's quintessential desktop virtualization infrastructure. What's new in this version: New look, Role-based installation (just like Citrix Xenapp 6), IMA disappears, Active Directory Configuration Wizard disappears, New Management Consoles (Desktop Studio and Desktop Director), Dazzle (HTTP://www.bujarra.com/?p=4157), enabling XenClient for connections and desktop synchronization… With this we will be able to provide our users with virtual desktops, in order to have a thin client environment on our network. With the Citrix controller we can manage the connections to the desktops that interest us (Supports up to 15000 MV cada controller), we will be able to connect to virtual machines based on Citrix XenServer, VMware vSphere or physical directly. Podremos unir diferentes tecnologías para la creación automática de escritorios como Citrix Provisioning Server o VMware […]

Uso de VMware Guided Consolidation

In this document we will see one of the VMware products that will help us virtualize our physical environment. VMware currently has two tools to measure what resources it will need when virtualizing a physical environment. The partner tool VMware Capacity Planner and this free and much more basic tool called VMware Guided Consolidation. It is a tool that has three processes: 1.- Search: Search for physical computers on the network to be analyzed. 2.- Analyzes: The selected physical equipment is analyzed and performance data is obtained for each computer. 3.- Consolidate servers: The data obtained is compared with the resources available in the virtual environment and virtualized in the virtual environment with recommendations on ESX hosts.

Using Citrix Branch Repeater (WanScaler Virtualized!)

We start, for those of us who knew the Citrix WANScaler product which is a physical appliance, Citrix has now renamed this product to Citrix Branch Repeater. This product is available in its apliance version as until now and also in an apliance under a Microsoft Windows operating system 2003 o Windows 2008. This product and its family are traffic optimizers, This is, if we have several delegations and there is traffic between them, With these products we can save exaggerated times when sending files or any type of traffic, since Branch Repeater will optimize all traffic that passes through, based on package optimization, by packet frames, caches data structure, and when more packages with the same patterns pass through, that data will not be sent, since he has them searched.