100daysofhomelab

Day 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.

Day 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 reference

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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 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…

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…

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.

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 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…

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.

Day 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.

Day 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…