Tiernans Comms Closet

Well, it’s Prime Day 2023, so I have been busy ordering some stuff, and, well, given everyone and their mother is doing posts on Prime Day stuff, I thought I would add my list of interesting things, including some of the things I bought. PS: all links are affiliate links and were found in the UK Store, but links are using GeniusLink to redirect you to the best store for you… Some items in the UK store might not be found in the US or other stores…

I don’t know. one way to find out. [Updated] YUP! 😛

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I think I have WordPress linked with Notion. It’s using WPSync for Notion and seems to work. this could be interesting.

Still trying to figure out tags though.

It’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… First, we need to find the drive in question. Usually, I’m my alerts, I get the Serial number of the drive causing problems. So, I ran the following command:

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 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.