This weekend I finally cleaned up something that had been bothering me for a while: DNS and power handling in my cluster. It technically worked but had a few glitches and, moreover: It wasn’t robust! DNS: from “it runs” to actual redundancy I had a single Pi-hole running in my Proxmox cluster. It filtered ads,…
Category: Proxmox
Hindsight and Proxmox: mistakes were made
Yeah, my Proxmox cluster hasn’t even been fully operational for 48 hours yet, and I’m already writing an article titled “Mistakes Were Made.” I genuinely wish I had known some of this beforehand, because it would have saved me time and, quite possibly, money. Storage I am already running out of storage. Yes. Not even…
Proxmox HA is alive!
This weekend was D-Day for my Proxmox HA/Ceph cluster. Spoiler alert! It actually runs! And yes, this took way longer than expected, and I had a serious run-in with Mr. Murphy. More on that later. Photos All three nodes, side by side. And yes, I bought another NOX 010 case. It differs from the NOX…
Yay, my first network switch with an attitude
I’ve owned plenty of network gear over the years. Great routers, crappy routers, access points, cheap switches, expensive ones, silent ones and extremely loud ones! You plug them in, they boot, lights blink, life goes on. My new MiktroTik CS309 is a different animal altogether. I accidentally pulled the power from it. I was trying…
What if. I went completely insane for a day
What if I went completely insane for a day and got hold of the most absurd hardware solution I could ever have wished for? What would that look like? And yes. I will go completely overboard. And yes, that is a solid understatement. Updates I’ve updated the article. I found the pricing of the 1U…
Proxmox HA host update
It has been a while since I posted an update about my Proxmox homelab. Memory I upgraded the “Logos” from 64 GB to 96 GB after finding a reasonably priced 2×32 GB memory kit. After installation, I ran extensive MemTest86 checks; everything passed without issues. Unfortunately, memory prices are going through the roof at the…
Proxmox software update
And a sooner-than-expected software update, or rather; a VM update. Today I migrated the three remaining VMs from my office node to my main Proxmox host at home. All three VMs belong together: a PostgreSQL database, a Python development machine, and an Nginx reverse proxy. As I had never migrated VMs before, it sounded like…
And another Proxmox update!
It is now almost a year ago that I started my Proxmox journey. Almost exactly a year ago Microsoft decided to push the infamous Windows 11 update and subsequently wrecking my homeserver in the process. And right now, I have a few more interesting things to talk about. Hardware “Node 3” is almost finished. I…
Proxmox update: 10Gbe network. CHECK
Nerd alert! The three Intel X710 10Gbe network cards are in! Thank you Ebay! ( in earnest this time! 🙂 Port 1 will be used for the Ceph sync for the VM’s. Port 2 will be used for data towards my network. More soon! Brain out!
BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, NO POST
Yeah, I know. That’s one hell of a cryptic title for this POST (pun intended 😛 ). Proxmox node 3 Yes! This post is about the third Proxmox node I’ve been assembling. Last Sunday, I finally had some spare time to install everything into the newly bought case. The process itself was straightforward: add extra…