Homelab

day 17 of #100daysofhomelab, and I haven’t done much, so its a link roundup today:

day 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…

Day 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.

Day 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.

Day 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.

Day 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.

Day 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…

update 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.

Day 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].

Day 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.