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day 45 of #100daysofhomelab

February 17, 2023
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Day 45 (little late) of , and still quite busy with $DayJob stuff… Mostly monitoring of the network and the like… Some links are below:

day 44 of #100daysofhomelab

February 15, 2023
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Day 44 of and still quite busy with $DayJob… so some links below. 

Also, I have been fiddling with some JQ and Zerotier-CLI commands… Not finished, but working on trying to get some data out of the CLI… I have a GitHub Gist with some details… I plan on adding to it over time.

Day 43 of #100daysofhomelab

February 14, 2023
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Day 43 of and I missed yesterday, but instead of skipping numbers, I am just not… I have been up to my eyes with $DayJob so not a major amount of work… But a couple of links for the day:

That is it for today… 

Day 42 of #100daysofhomelab

February 12, 2023
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Day 42 of and I spent way too many hours last night messing with MAAS. It all started with a Techno Tim Video I posted back on Day 25. I started messing with it last night around 11 pm or so, and then I realized it was 4 AM this morning… So, link drop for today:

Day 41 of #100daysofhomelab

February 11, 2023
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Going to be a very quick update here. Things are a little more stable at the moment. I figured out why my FTTH connection was acting up… the VM I moved it too had the default free 1Mb/s license for RouterOS… After moving my unlimited CHR license over, things have gotten better. screenshots over on my mastodon instance:

So, today, not doing much other than monitoring… I am taking a day of rest and will be back tomorrow…

Day 40 of #100daysofhomelab

February 11, 2023
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Day 40 of #100daysofhomelab and the internet is a little more stable… Still not 100%, but “stable”.  Speed test results have dropped, as you can see in the graph below, but weirdly, ping times are a little better…

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Download speeds. The swap over happened around the 8th Feb, 9th was pretty much a wash, 10th things got a bit better…

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Upload Speeds. less spikey upload speeds, but also less upload speed…

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ping times went from around 38-40ms to around 28-30ms… 

I currently have Observium watching the traffic on the routers, and all logs are being written to an ELK stack. Not correctly (links below on how it *should* work, but I don’t have it fully working… yet) but they are being logged nonetheless.

 

Day 38 and 39 of #100daysofhomelab

February 9, 2023
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this post is for day 38 and 39 of #100daysofhomelab… and i have finally moved over to my #RB5009… and, well, it has not gone so well… It has rebooted a few times due to memory issues (too many BGP tables being held, so I shut a few down to start with… some cleanup needed there), then the internet connections are a little unstable, and, well, in the last 48 hours, I have spent more time on LTE than on proper internet… It does seem to be working (ish…) now, but not as fast as it was. I am just using the #Zerotier link, so the #Wireguard links are currently off… Anyway, below are some links… I hope to make things work better tomorrow… And i also hope to have a better write up soon too…

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Day 36 of #100daysofhomelab

February 7, 2023
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Day 36 of #100daysofhomelab and after yesterday’s post about RAID 10 on my external array, I found ZFS on OSX, and well, now I have a ZFS RAIDZ pool setup. It is showing as around 28.8Tb usable space, and so far, so good. 

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Other than that, I have been looking into Ubuntu Landscape to monitor my Ubuntu fleet of machines. If you host it in-house, you get 10 machines for free, so hopefully, that’s enough for me to start with… I am working on getting it running on 22.04, using these beta install steps. RB5009 install is still pending… keep hitting stupid blocks stopping me from doing it, but hopefully this week… 

Day 35 of #100daysofhomelab

February 7, 2023
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Day 35 of and I have been trying to clean up some stuff for my Mac Book Pro. I have an external enclosure from Yottamaster that has 5 3.5” bays and connects via USB C (USB 3.1). I got 5 8TB Seagate IronWolf drives in there. Currently, I have it set up as RAID 10 with 16Tb usable, which is named Archive, with 1 extra drive non-protected 8Tb drive. The details on setting up RAID 10 on MacOS is in the links section. I was looking at using RAID 5 for the archive pool, but the only option that seems to be available is SoftRAID but it’s USD250 for a license unless you have an OWC enclosure… Given the enclosure cost me that much in the first place, I think I will keep with RAID 10 for the while… RAID 5 would, potentially, give me 32Tb usable on my Archive, but 250 is a bit steep… for now…

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I also have a Sabrent USB 3.0 4 Bay 2.5” enclosure with 4 500Gb Samsung SSDs, named SCRATCH. This is in RAID 0 (I know, I know, if one drive goes MIA, all data is lost… That’s why this is a TEMP folder! It’s backed up to the Archive and also to BackBlaze). This is mostly stuff that is downloaded, and Video work that, when completed, is moved to the Archive Folder. Anyway, files are currently moving, so I will leave that as is.

On an update for the RB5009, It was originally planned for today, but the daddy found a TV show on Netflix, so it will have to be done either this evening or tomorrow morning… We will see… Anyway, some links:

Day 34 of #100daysofhomelab

February 5, 2023
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Day 34 of #100daysofhomelab and I have realized I missed yesterday and also duplicated day 16… (facepalm). So, it’s day 34, I think…

Still working on the RB5009 upgrade. I am “technically” on holiday for the long weekend here in Ireland, so I have been out of the homelab more than I have been in. I need to move stuff around before I can swap in the RB5009, including changes to my VoIP setup (or at least wait till e everyone is asleep and won’t notice it being down) and some rewiring tasks… See below. I did also have to order new cables to try and keep some consistency in length… How well that will work is unknown… Hopefully, I will be back in the homelab a bit more on Tuesday… We see what I can break then.

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