https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/categories/100daysofhomelab.htmlHugoen-ie2026 Tiernan OTooleFri, 10 Jul 2026 23:30:52 +0100https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/04/17/day-61-of-100daysofhomelab-swapping-disks-in-a-hetzner-dedicated-machine.htmlMon, 17 Apr 2023 13:22:47 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/04/17/day-61-of-100daysofhomelab-swapping-disks-in-a-hetzner-dedicated-machine.htmlIt’s been a while… So, for Day 61 of #100daysofhomelab, I thought I should write up how to swap a disk in a Hetzner Dedicated Machine. I have a dedicated server I rent from Hetzner in Germany. It has an Xeon E5-1650 V2 processor (6 cores, 12 threads, 3.5Gz base, 3.9Gz turbo), 128Gb RAM, and a pretty impressive 15 6Tb HDD. All drives are hooked to a Mega RAID controller, but because I am running ProxMox, I left it in JBOD mode and set up the 15 drives in RAIDZ-2. All 15 drives are in a single pool (probably not ideal, but it works for me). Now and again, I get a message from ProxMox telling me about bad blocks… and every time it happens, I have to remember what to do to find the bad drive, report it to Hetzner, wait for them to replace the drive and then add it back to the pool… Today, it happened, so I thought I better document it, to help future me, and hopefully someone else out there…https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/31/esxi-8-0c-release.htmlFri, 31 Mar 2023 10:05:03 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/31/esxi-8-0c-release.htmlLooks like there is a new release for ESXi 8.0. Seems to be mostly a DPU patch. Anyone running ESXi with DPUs might need to look into this…https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/30/day-60-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlThu, 30 Mar 2023 18:12:26 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/30/day-60-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 60 of #100daysofhomelab and I have been sick for most of the last 2 weeks, so that’s why I haven’t been posting much… Today is going to be links only too…https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/23/day-59-of-100daysofhomelab-proxmox-updates-ltt-hacked-new-framework-laptops.htmlThu, 23 Mar 2023 18:29:10 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/23/day-59-of-100daysofhomelab-proxmox-updates-ltt-hacked-new-framework-laptops.htmlDay 59 of #100daysofhomelab and Proxmox released 7.4 of their Virtual Environment. I have not upgraded any of my machines to it, just yet, but that’s the plan for the weekend. Other than that, some links:https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/21/day-58-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlTue, 21 Mar 2023 20:50:03 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/21/day-58-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 58 of #100daysofhomelab and today is mostly a retrospective of what I did over the last few days, with some links thrown in for good measure… Given I am going to keep GodBoxV3 running Windows Server 2022 for the foreseeable future, I installed Veeam Availability Suite (through their NFR program) and got it to backup up my Hyper-V VMs, along with my ESXi VMs to both local and Backblaze B2 storage. So far, so good.https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/15/day-56-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlWed, 15 Mar 2023 22:57:54 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/15/day-56-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 56 of #100daysofhomelab and I managed to fix some stuff with my TrueNAS box. There was lots of messing when it came to permissions, but it works now. Some speeds are below. Not quite getting the speeds I was expecting, but there I have not tweaked anything, yet… This is going from my MacBook Pro with a 10Gb adapter. The reads are quite good, but the writes… well, the HDDs are FASTER than the NVMe… No idea why… I did get a new card to add another 4 NVMe drives in… We’ll see what happens when that gets built.https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/12/day-55-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlSun, 12 Mar 2023 22:51:54 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/12/day-55-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 55 of #100daysofhomelab and it’s going to mostly link dump today… Still working on my TrueNAS stuff, hopefully, I can get a couple of blog posts about it soon enough… Anyway, on to the links.https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/12/day-54-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlSun, 12 Mar 2023 02:27:35 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/12/day-54-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 54 of #100daysofhomelab and it’s going to be a very quick one… My head is wrecked with TrueNAS… Swapped TrueNAS Core (FreeBSD) to TrueNAS Scale (Linux). Trying to get Resilio Sync to work on it, but getting permissions issues… It’s after 2 am here, so giving up for the moment, but hopefully, I can figure it out tomorrow… On a different note, I ordered a load of storage upgrades (Another Hyper M.2 x16 card, some new NVMe drives, and some other stuff) for GodBoxV3… More details soon…https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/10/day-53-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlFri, 10 Mar 2023 22:12:39 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/10/day-53-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 53 of #100daysofhomelab and It’s been a busy week… ish… I’ve been battling with Vertigo on and off this week, so haven’t don’t a lot. I did, however, fix some issues with the network, set up a proper failover WAN connection using SmoothWAN and my Quad 2.5Gb Box, and have started making major changes to GodBoxV3.https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/07/zfs-over-multiple-dvd-bd-r-images.htmlTue, 07 Mar 2023 09:42:46 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/07/zfs-over-multiple-dvd-bd-r-images.htmlA couple of days back, I started thinking about archiving and backup software. I kind of have backups “sorted”, with my MacBook Pro using BackBlaze to backup to the cloud, Time Machine backing it up to my Synology, my VMs on Proxmox being backed up to Proxmox Backup Server off-site, my Synology and QNAPs being backup to B2 and Hetzner and some other bits and bobs… But for the Archiving stuff, I am not really set up… So, I went looking for archiving software. Couldn’t find anything, so asked on r/DataHoarder. Still no options, at the time of posting, but someone did reply with the idea of using DVDs (or Blu Rays) for ZFS...https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/05/day-52-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlSun, 05 Mar 2023 00:32:51 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/05/day-52-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 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…https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/04/day-51-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlSat, 04 Mar 2023 01:44:26 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/04/day-51-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 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.https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/02/day-50-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlThu, 02 Mar 2023 21:50:46 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/02/day-50-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 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.https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/01/day-49-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlWed, 01 Mar 2023 09:36:27 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/01/day-49-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 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…https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/27/day-48-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlMon, 27 Feb 2023 20:51:10 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/27/day-48-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 48 of #100daysofhomelab and I have been out of commission for the last couple of days… Havnt been well… cold and flu-like symptoms, but luckily, not Covid… Haven’t done a major amount, so it’s mostly links for today, but I did try a few projects and installed them. Links for those are below.https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/21/day-47-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlTue, 21 Feb 2023 00:54:35 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/21/day-47-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 47 of #100daysofhomelab and i have missed a few days due to, well, a mix of laziness and being busy… I was working from my new home office today… still need to get some cabling and other stuff sorted, but we are getting close… nearly a year since it was installed! More on that at a later stage… for today, some links.https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/19/day-46-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlSat, 18 Feb 2023 23:12:15 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/19/day-46-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 46 of #100daysofhomelab and I haven’t had much time to work on the homelab this weekend, but have had some time using it, somewhat indirectly. Plex, Netflix and Disney Plus streaming, etc. Internet is more stable (but not 100%. more messing on that part soon) and the RB5009 is definitely more stable (IPv6 BGP is currently off, and only using 5 of my 14ish BGP sessions I could use. I think 1Gb RAM is struggling, or my filters are wrong. Hopefully, it’s a filter thing, that way I can sort it out without new hardware.https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/17/day-45-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlFri, 17 Feb 2023 09:08:58 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/17/day-45-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 45 (little late) of #100daysofhomelab, and still quite busy with $DayJob stuff. Mostly monitoring of the network and the like. Some links are below: How to Set Up a 24/7 Livestream Powered by Starlink – Speedify How To Boost Starlink Internet with Two Additional Connections – Speedify Microsoft to support Windows 11 on Apple M1 and M2 Macs through Parallels partnership – The Verge Announcing pricing updates and more flexible payment options for Google Workspace | Google Workspace Blog – price increases if you pay monthly… Frebniis: New Malware Abuses Microsoft IIS Feature to Establish Backdoor | Symantec Enterprise Blogs (security.com) Reducing Tailscale’s binary size on macOS · Tailscale 4.0.0 — Homebrewhttps://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/15/day-44-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlWed, 15 Feb 2023 22:06:07 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/15/day-44-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 44 of #100daysofhomelab and still quite busy with $DayJob. so some links below. Intel Launches Xeon W-3400 and W-2400 Processors For Workstations: Up to 56 Cores and 112 PCIe 5.0 Lanes (anandtech.com) Tiernan on Twitter: “RT @ZeroTier: ZeroTier 1.10.3 is now available. This release includes low bandwidth mode, a duplicate path bug fix, and OIDC improvements..” / Twitter swarmlet/swarmlet: A self-hosted, open-source Platform as a Service that enables easy swarm deployments, load balancing, automatic SSL, metrics, analytics and more. (github.com 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.https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/14/day-43-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlTue, 14 Feb 2023 22:34:29 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/14/day-43-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 43 of #100daysofhomelab 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: VMware ESXi 8.0 Patch History (v-front.de) – looks like there is a new patch for ESXi 8. This page has an RSS Feed I subscribe to and they even include the CLI params to update. Veeam 12 has been released. The release notes (PDF) have the full details. Downloading the community edition to try it out… Geekbench 6 Launched Big Benchmark Updates We Try It (servethehome.com) LibreNMS – looking at replacing Observium. That is it for today. https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/12/day-42-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlSun, 12 Feb 2023 19:03:20 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/12/day-42-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 42 of #100daysofhomelab 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: MAAS | How to install MAAS MAAS | Power management referencehttps://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/11/day-41-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlSat, 11 Feb 2023 22:55:33 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/11/day-41-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlGoing 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…https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/11/day-40-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlFri, 10 Feb 2023 23:03:57 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/11/day-40-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 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… Download speeds. The swap over happened around the 8th Feb, 9th was pretty much a wash, 10th things got a bit better… Upload Speeds. less spikey upload speeds, but also less upload speed…https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/09/day-38-and-39-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlThu, 09 Feb 2023 22:31:52 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/09/day-38-and-39-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlthis 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…https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/07/day-36-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlTue, 07 Feb 2023 21:39:16 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/07/day-36-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 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. 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. https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/07/day-35-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlMon, 06 Feb 2023 23:19:21 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/07/day-35-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 35 of #100daysofhomelab 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…https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/05/day-33-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlSun, 05 Feb 2023 20:03:03 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/05/day-33-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 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.https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/04/day-31-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlFri, 03 Feb 2023 23:55:03 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/04/day-31-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 31 of #100daysofhomelab and I am going through the config from my CHR to bring over to my RB5009, and, well, I have no idea what I was doing when I built the original config… Now to try and figure out what the config did, since I want to document it here so I know what I was thinking, but to also possibly help someone else… Mind you, at this stage, it won’t be much help… I also need to figure out how to add my Zerotier Bridge into the mix.https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/03/day-30-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlThu, 02 Feb 2023 23:11:06 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/03/day-30-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 30 of #100daysofhomelab and I tried to look into getting my RB5009 setup, and well… it has the wrong power supply! EU, not UK/Ireland… More messing is required! [Update] Found the right supply, but fell asleep watching TV… more messing tomorrow…https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/01/day-29-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlWed, 01 Feb 2023 19:02:12 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/01/day-29-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 29 of #100daysofhomelab and my RB5009 finally arrived! The bad news is I am up to my eyes with some out-of-hours updates for my $DayJob… So, it will probably be tomorrow or Friday before I get to it… It’s been that kind of a day. I am OOF from Friday to next Wednesday, so I should have plenty of time to play with. I also started playing around with Tailscale Funnel. I got my hands on an invite, and it looks like I can invite other people to it… If you are interested, leave a comment. I have not actually done much with it, mostly reading the docs and testing it before i make it public… But should be interesting. Anyway, now for some links.https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/31/day-28-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlTue, 31 Jan 2023 19:55:15 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/31/day-28-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 28 of #100daysofhomelab and I got some benchmarks for the WordPress site. First, using ab, going directly to WordPress. It does have W3 Total Cache turned on, using Redis for DB and Object Cache, etc. 10000 requests at 100 a go, 682 requests a second, and meantime of 146ms per request. Total bandwidth is around 50Mbit/s.https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/30/day-27-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlMon, 30 Jan 2023 22:56:23 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/30/day-27-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 27 of #100daysofhomelab and it does look like WordPress is running correctly and quite fast… Yesterday’s messing with configs got Varnish, Memcached and Redis all running along with upgrading from PHP8.0 to 8.2. The problem now seems to be related to caching rules… So, some messing with that is required… My RB5009 is now stuck in France and has been there since Friday… It is scheduled for delivery on Wednesday, so that will be a fun day breaking stuff… Its been on quite the trip. Most of that was in 3 days, but it got stuck in France and hasnt moved over the weekend… Fingers crossed it arrives on Wednesday!https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/29/day-26-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlSun, 29 Jan 2023 21:25:25 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/29/day-26-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 26 of #100daysofhomelab and I have been trying to figure out why my internet has been unstable today… it up and down a few times… well, parts of it are… Zerotier seems to be sorting out my main network, it’s smaller parts that are going wonky… I am half thinking of leaving it till next weekend since my RB5009 arrives next week… This should help me sort out my network…https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/28/day-25-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlSat, 28 Jan 2023 21:40:09 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/28/day-25-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 25 of #100daysofhomelab, and not done much in the way of home lab work today, but has tested the bejesus out of the internet connection! I bought a Backblaze License for my Mac Book Pro, which initially has around 2.3Tb to backup. There are my YouTube Videos along with code and other bits… It looks like it has uploaded 290 Gb in the last 24 hours…https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/28/day-24-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlSat, 28 Jan 2023 00:46:51 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/28/day-24-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 24 of #100daysofhomelab and most of it was spent migrating my ADS-B stuff from a VM to a Raspberry Pi (see Day 23 for links). So far, I am “feeding” FlightRadar24, ADSB Exchange, FlightAware and RadarBox. I also love some of the graphs I am getting out of it below. Currently, the antenna I am using is a little small and hanging out of a window, so I am missing some flights. The next plan is to get a better one and move the Pi to the CloudShed where I can mount the antenna better.https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/26/day-23-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlThu, 26 Jan 2023 22:33:17 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/26/day-23-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 23 of #100daysofhomelab and i am trying to do some migration today. I built my ADB-S monitor for both FlightRadar24 and ADBSExchange on my ESXi host, and now i want to move it to my Raspberry Pi… So, trying to get my Pi 4 working (not sure if the SD is wonkey, or something else is wrong) but thats my challange… I am using the following guide which allows you to run this as a docker instance on the Pi, which means, in theory, adding extra servers (which, in the case of the premium ones, like FlightRadar24) give you free service while you supply data.https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/26/day-22-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlWed, 25 Jan 2023 23:02:59 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/26/day-22-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 22 of #100daysofhomelab and I have been planning out my network update for when my RB5009 arrives… Not ready to share, yet, but it should be here on the 2nd Feb, so I will have a plan (maybe) by the weekend… Other than that, it’s a link dump for today: Ok, I kind of got the following diagram, but it only makes sense in my head, and I’m not even sure it makes sense there… I’ll leave this here without further explanation, till maybe the weekend…https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/25/day-21-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlWed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:31 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/25/day-21-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 21 (slightly late, forgot to post this last night) of #100daysofhomelab and its a links day. on a more different note, my Mikrotik RB5009UG+S+IN is finally on its way! Hopefully will have it next week! Happy days!https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/23/day-20-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlMon, 23 Jan 2023 22:52:54 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/23/day-20-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 20 of #100daysofhomelab and not much going on today. I posted a new video unboxing the ChargeASAP Omega 100W and 200W chargers (embedded below). I also tweaked my daily carry bag, pictured below. More details on that later, it’s been a pain in the ass of a day, but hope to get some updates tomorrow.https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/22/day-19-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlSun, 22 Jan 2023 22:11:34 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/22/day-19-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 19 of #100daysofhomelab and not done a lot today, so its mostly links…https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/22/day-18-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlSun, 22 Jan 2023 01:15:38 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/22/day-18-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 18 of #100daysofhomelab and today I moved my Unifi Protect cameras from my UDM Pro to my Cloud Key Gen 2. Why? The UDM Pro is still stuck on Unifi OS 2.4 (hopefully it will get 3 at some stage…). The Cloud Key Gen 2, however, does run 3.0. Some of the new Protect features are limited to Unifi OS 3.0, and I wanted to try them out. Also, my UCK has a 5Tb HDD in it, but my UDM only has 3, so I get more recording space from the UCK. So far, seems to be running well. Everything else is still on the UDM Pro. Only Protect has moved. More tomorrow.https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/20/day-17-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlFri, 20 Jan 2023 22:40:08 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/20/day-17-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlday 17 of #100daysofhomelab, and I haven’t done much, so its a link roundup today:https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/19/day-16-of-100daysofhomelab-2.htmlThu, 19 Jan 2023 14:31:47 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/19/day-16-of-100daysofhomelab-2.htmlday 16 of #100daysofhomelab, and my test from yesterday paid off! droped from 10 to less than 4gb of RAM used on one of my proxmox boxes by moving the storage from local ZFS to NFS… Mind you, only seems to have made a difference on this box…https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/18/day-16-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlWed, 18 Jan 2023 22:11:29 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/18/day-16-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 16 of #100daysofhomelab and not much going on. Busy with work. I am running a test though. I seen the following tweet a few days back: Given some of my smaller boxes are running 90%+ memory usage, i have decided to move the VMs from my NUC to my QNAP storage box. Its going to take a while to move them over, but we see what RAM usage is like after.https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/17/day-15-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlTue, 17 Jan 2023 18:14:14 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/17/day-15-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 15 of #100daysofhomelab and i have been playing with Portainer a bit, including the Pi-Hosted templates. So far, i have installed Rust Desk and Your Spotify.https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/16/day-14-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlMon, 16 Jan 2023 20:29:38 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/16/day-14-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 14 of #100daysofhomelab and I have been thinking about future upgrades if I had the money… So, I have my CloudShed in the back garden. Currently, I only have an HP Micro Server and a (not currently in production) Dell R720, along with a Ubiquiti Edge Switch 48 Lite. Between the Shed and the house is a fibre link purchased through FS.com, with 6 pairs. Currently, only 1 pair is in use, giving me a 10Gb/s between the house and shed, and with the easy option to upgrade to 20Gb. But I have been thinking bigger.https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/16/day-13-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlMon, 16 Jan 2023 00:19:19 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/16/day-13-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 13 of #100daysofhomelab and it’s mostly a rest and update day. I got my Plex Server back online, so ended up watching a load of stuff on that. Also, I upgraded my OpnSense box to OPNsense 23.1.beta. There are not many machines behind it, but I will keep my eye on it and see how things go. Hope to be back to some normality tomorrow.https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/15/day-12-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlSun, 15 Jan 2023 01:38:59 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/15/day-12-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 12 of #100daysofhomelab and I am still battling with my ZFS pool on my Plex Server… So, that has taken all my time today… ugh…https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/14/day-11-5-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlFri, 13 Jan 2023 23:07:21 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/14/day-11-5-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlupdate to day 11 of #100daysofhomelab, and I thought this needed its own dedicated post. I managed to fix my ZFS pool and got it imported into Ubuntu, so all is good, but I found these links and this is cool! So…. running MacOS and Android inside Docker is pretty cool! Could be handy for building, well, build servers for developers that need MacOS. and the Android stuff is handy for dev/testing too. Very cool.https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/13/day-11-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlFri, 13 Jan 2023 22:03:40 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/13/day-11-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 11 of #100daysofhomelab and i am trying to fix my Plex Server… Seems when i moved from Fedora to Ubuntu, my ZFS pool did not import. I did not notice this, since mostly what is on it was temp files and logs… Well, the main drive is running out of space, so I checked the ZFS and it was failing because the version of OpenZFS I was running on Fedora (from master in their GitHub repo) is not compatible with the one on Ubuntu… (facepalm) So, have to rebuild and install OpenZFS from code… hopefully this works… [Edit… it did not work… ugh] [Edit 2: This did work though: Installing ZFS on Ubuntu (uptrace.dev) especially the part of building from code].https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/12/day-10-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlThu, 12 Jan 2023 21:27:54 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/12/day-10-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 10 of #100daysofhomelab and its mostly updates and monitoring. I think my next plan for the Kubernetes cluster is to rebuild the VMs and start from scratch. Currently, they ranged from 2-4 cores and 4-8Gb RAM. They also had a single disk on them and used an Ubuntu 22.04 cloud image. I think the plan going forward is to make sure each has similar RAM and Cores, none are going on the smaller VM Hosts I have, and I will be adding a new disk just for storage. Looks like Minio might work for me… More testing and reading are required though.https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/11/day-9-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlWed, 11 Jan 2023 18:22:22 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/11/day-9-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlWell, day 9 of #100daysofhomelab is about Disaster Recovery… Well, at least the disaster part… Recovery not so much… My Kubernetes cluster, how do I put this… shat the bed… It’s been up and down all day and then the Longhorn storage failed and took my WordPress install with it… I lost yesterday’s post (which isn’t the end of the world) but it’s a pain in the ass… I ended up using the old docker copy of WordPress, so at least that’s online.https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/09/day-7-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlMon, 09 Jan 2023 22:29:47 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/09/day-7-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 7 of #100daysofhomelab and just a quick update for today: this site is now running on my Kubernetes Cluster! I am using Cloudflare tunnels for the ingress controller (more on that later) and so far, so good… Most of this was done yesterday, and it was a swap over of the DNS stuff today… been sick most of the day, so that’s all I got in me for day 7…https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/09/testing-wordpress-on-kubernetes.htmlMon, 09 Jan 2023 17:44:32 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/09/testing-wordpress-on-kubernetes.htmlI now think this WordPress instance is hosted on Kubernetes and is also being shared over CloudflareD running inside Kubernetes! If this shows on my main site, it works! If not, I have broken something… [UPDATE] Yup! It’s working! 🙂https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/08/day-6-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlSun, 08 Jan 2023 22:36:59 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/08/day-6-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 6 of #100daysofhomelab and I have some progress on my Kubernetes cluster! Then after a few min, it comes back online… Also, I got WordPress installed in Kubernetes! Now to migrate this blog over… Hopefully before my next update tomorrow…https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/08/day-5-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlSun, 08 Jan 2023 00:39:40 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/08/day-5-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 5 of #100daysofhomelab and its mostly reading… the daddy was in the hospital for the last 2 weeks, including over Christmas day, so tomorrow is Christmas day for us… Turkey, ham and all the usual stuff… So, been busy with that. But have been reading a couple of docs, so some links for today: That’s about it for today… I’ll be back tomorrow… hopefully…https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/06/day-4-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlFri, 06 Jan 2023 21:41:17 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/06/day-4-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 4 of #100daysofhomelab and I am still reading the docs I posted yesterday on Kubernetes. I hope to get something sorted this weekend… On a different note, I posted a new YouTube video on the iODD ST400, linked below. This is a follow-up to my iODD Mini review I did a couple of years back. Hopefully, I will have a second video with some speed tests and a better walk in the next few days… hopefully.https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/05/day-3-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlThu, 05 Jan 2023 19:03:00 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/05/day-3-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 3 of #100daysofhomelab and more Kubernetes messing today. Haven’t got it working, but messing with it is a start. Some links and notes are below: I am planning on moving my WordPress install over from my Docker host to Kubernetes in the next few days, so running through the docks from Bharathiraja above, but I keep getting errors related to MySQL… More digging is required. I use Cloudflare Tunnels to secure my WordPress install, so the docs on how to use Cloudflare Tunnels with Kubernetes are important…https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/04/day-2-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlWed, 04 Jan 2023 22:06:47 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/04/day-2-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 2 of #100daysofhomelab and more messing with Kubernetes… So far, I have built, torn down, rebuilt and torn down a second time… and now building for a third time! Techno Tims Ansible scripts for the Win! A couple of notes for today: More work on the cluster is required. This blog is hosted in-house on one of the docker instances… Hopefully, at some stage, it will be moved to the K3s cluster! That would be the first major move!https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/03/day-1-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlTue, 03 Jan 2023 20:58:44 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/01/03/day-1-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlI have decided to start my #100daysofhomelab journey again, so today is day 1. I have been working on a K3s cluster in the house, and so far, I have to start again… going to rebuild it again tomorrow at some stage… Lots of Links some notes for myself: