Tiernan's Comms Closet March 2023

Day 52 of #100daysofhomelab

March 5, 2023 tiernano

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Day 52 of #100daysofhomelab and I have been out of the lab most of the day. Still looking through all the docker containers on docker box 1, which has been running for many years now, and trying to figure out how to move everything is going to be fun… looks like I have an iSCSI volume added to the box. It’s shared between a few docker containers… then there are NFS mounts too… This might take longer than expected… So… more digging through YAML…

Lenovo ThinkEdge SE10 and SE10-I Launched for Low Power Fanless Edge (servethehome.com)
TrueNAS Mini R Released and TrueNAS Scale 22.12.1 (servethehome.com)
UniFi Protect Application 2.7.31 | Ubiquiti Community – The last release caused problems with my G4 Doorbell… the mechanical chime stopped working. This fixes that issue…
How Well Does the M2 Pro Mac mini Handle Video? | Fstoppers
Found some photos of my old 2012 BMW 535D (EU spec, so 3l twin turbo straight 6 with 300+ BHP!). decided to post them to my Smugmug site. I loved that car… Pity, it’s gone now…

Day 51 of #100daysofhomelab

March 4, 2023 tiernano

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Day 51 of #100daysofhomelab and I am planning my move of some of my Docker instances in the house to new machines… GodBoxV3 is currently running Windows Server 2022 with a couple of HyperV VMs on it. One runs docker containers and the other USIP from Ubiquiti for managing my EdgeSwitches. I am trying to move these VMs off that machine and do a clean-up, and the plan is to either install Proxmox with TrueNAS as a VM with disks passed directly into it, plus some other VMs or TrueNAS direct with VMs on there… Suggestions? Anyway, as part of the clean-up, I put my custom WordPress Container up on GitHub and it builds new builds nightly. The move is going to be fun, so my weekend will be busy… So, other than that, some links.

Day 50 of #100daysofhomelab

March 2, 2023 tiernano

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Day 50 of #100daysofhomelab (this was stuck in a draft folder, so this is a couple of weeks old… I decided to recycle this as day 50, but it was originally day 37 or something…).

Just about 13 days ago: After running ZFS on my Mac for a few hours, I removed it and installed a trial of the SoftRAID software… I am not sure what was going on, but with ZFS installed, my machine just kept crashing… less than an hour and bang… So, I installed SoftRAID, and the speed ok… Not massive speeds, but not 100% sure I am using the right cables… More testing with cables soon…But in reality, this is software RAID 5 over 5 spinning disks. 270Mb/s read ain’t bad… 115Mb/s write ain’t great, but it’s RAID 5…

Cut to today: The trial of SoftRaid is just about up, and I am not sure I am going to buy it… I have been thinking of installing Proxmox or TrueNAS on GodBoxV3, which already has 8 8Tb Spinning drives, 7 NVMe drives (2 in RAID 0 for boot, and 4 in RAID 5 (ish, Windows Storage Spaces) one not usable for some reason, along with 2 960Gb SSDs). If I use the 5-bay enclosure with GodBoxV3, I can use that as one pool (External) the 8 Spinning disks inside as a second pool, the MVMEs as a third, and the SSDs either as a cache to the 8 internal disks, or possibly a more different pool… But this is something I am still thinking about… Anyway, links to random stuff are below…

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Day 49 of #100daysofhomelab

March 1, 2023 tiernano

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Day 49 of #100daysofhomelab, and I missed this yesterday, but it’s only going to be a link dump… And todays link dump is mostly Mikrotik gear! Some of these are a little cringy (looking at your Solid Rack video) But hilarious nonetheless! Some of these are so new, they don’t even seem to have product pages, just videos announcing them…