Subj : Re: Home Lab Projects To : Zylone From : poindexter FORTRAN Date : Wed Sep 15 2021 07:19:00 -=> Zylone wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=- Zy> this was the fan in the PSU was getting unbearable with its old age. I see what you did there. :) Zy> For the wifi, I replaced the old Ubiquiti UAP-AC's with Mikrotik wAP Zy> AC's. These currently don't have all the fancy MIMO support that the Zy> ubiquiti stuff does, but I wanted to try them out.. especially with the Zy> rest of the network being Mikrotik. I can't rave enough about them.. Zy> they are super solid, and I swear have less self noise! My needs are much more simple. I've got the Linksys WRT1900ACS as a gateway router and a Netgear R6400 as an AP. Before, I had powerline adapters everywhere and 2 wireless extenders, and it was all flakey as hell. I had 2 Cat6 runs done between the routers and got rid of the powerline adapters and access points, and things are running smoothly. Zy> This new desktop currently is running Proxmox on an old 250gb SSD. Zy> Then, I have a few VM's and LXC containers on top of that. The main rig Zy> is PopOS with 20gb ram, 200gb NVME storage, and 12 'cores'. This VM Zy> also has an older Radeon PCI card passed through to it. It also has at Zy> current a single USB hub from the motherboard passed through to it to Zy> support my audio interface, keyboard, mouse, webcam, etc. The VM is set Zy> to auto boot when the machine starts. So, other than a little added Zy> time added and a few screen flickers while Proxmox boots, it feels like Zy> a normal desktop. I've heard of people doing peripheral passthrough and using the bare metal proxmox server as a desktop. Seeing as it's Debian, I suppose you could just run a window manager on top of it! Zy> There is also a Windows 10 VM running with the same hardware specs with Zy> nothing passed through currently. I will probably add my old video card Zy> in and pass it through and setup a single dedicated monitor to it, as Zy> the PopOS VM has two monitors dedicated to it. Then, I would use Zy> something like Synergy on both machines to allow a virtual kvm if you Zy> will so that the keyboard and mouse can be used across both machines Zy> seamlessly. I played with Synergy a long time ago, still have a license. I've been wanting to dig it up again, as I have been working from home since 2020, along with many others. Right now, I RDP into my laptop and use my dual desktop monitors in an RDP session. It might be fun to just use my keyboard and mouse across all 3 screens. Zy> There are several containers so far.. I have been spinning these up as Zy> replacements of current VM's that have been running on the esxi server. Zy> These include pihole, ubiquiti controller (I host for my dad and son's Zy> networks). Zoneminder for my security cameras, nextcloud which I havent Zy> played with much yet, and one for my BBS which is the last VM I still Zy> need to migrate. I am contemplating just throwing this up on my VPS Zy> instead. Are you using LXC natively on Proxmox or do you have a guest VM hosting Docker containers? I've wanted to do more with containers, like being able to support them natively on Proxmox, but there doesn't seem to be as much support for it or anywhere near the number of pre-compiled images as compared to Docker. Zy> I recently picked up my very first pi. It is a pi4 with 8gb ram and Zy> currently just running pihole as a secondary pihole on the local Zy> network. I need to do more with it.. maybe a future NAS! I have used it Zy> to run some SDR dongles off of, and that worked out well as well. Now that you can boot Pis from USB and not worry about burning out the SD card, I'm planning on putting a hard drive on mine. Right now it's running a container with PiHole and Grafana to graph my internet speeds but I could easily move that to my docker host. They are fun to play with! Zy> Oh yeah.. and I got a few VLAN's running too.. wired network, wireless Zy> network.. you may ask why different vlan's for those two? Well.. Zy> because I dont want any broadcast/multicast traffic bleeding from the Zy> wired network to wireless... all that just eats up air time. I know I Zy> could block that with a flat network.. but it is what it is right now. Zy> ;) Other vlans include IoT, camera, and management. VLAN's are way Zy> overkill for home use.. but that's part of the fun of homelabs! I have a Windows domain I'm setting up, and want to use Samba as a domain controller on the main LAN and have a secondary VLAN for the Windows domain traffic on Proxmox, between a Windows 10 client and 2019 server. I've always wanted a guest LAN as well. My other project is going to be backing up my Synology NAS to the cloud. I'm going to be setting up backup for a ESXi cluster at work, and am going back and forth between Veeam and looking at a more do-it-yourself solution with TrueNAS and rsync to AWS. That'll be early next year. I went from working in IT management over the past 20 years to a much more hands-on role and am enjoying the opportunity to play with cool stuff again. .... Disciplined self-indulgence --- MultiMail/DOS v0.52 * Origin: realitycheckbbs.org -- yesterday's tech today (46:1/115) .