Homelab

Looks 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…

• VMware ESXi 8.0c Release Notes
• VMware ESXi 8.0 Patch History (v-front.de)

Day 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…

• Updates on the 3CX Security Alert for Electron Windows App – and the next few links are all about it… I use 3CX at home… Luckily I don’t use the desktop app (Phone app and their PWA app, but not the desktop one). If you do, start reading!
• 3CX VoIP Software Compromise & Supply Chain Threats (huntress.com)
• // 2023-03-29 // SITUATIONAL AWARENESS // CrowdStrike Tracking Active Intrusion Campaign Targeting 3CX Customers // : crowdstrike (reddit.com)
• Ironing out (the macOS details) of a Smooth Operator Objective-See’s Blog
• Tailscale Funnel now available in beta · Tailscale
• ASRock Rack GENOAD8UD-2T/X550 Genoa Motherboard Review (servethehome.com)
• From IP packets to HTTP: the many faces of our Oxy framework (cloudflare.com)

Day 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:

Day 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.

Day 57 of #100daysofhomelab and its a link dump for today:

Day 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.

Day 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…

Day 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.

A 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...

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…