Did I get you Homelabber’s attention?
Now that my network is just about ready, a coll guy sent over a couple nice NUC’s, and I like to learn new things.
Let’s say I want to try out some more advanced networking stuff, a dns ad blocker, maybe home assistant, some sort of nas/dropbox replacement maybe. What should I start reading more about, proxmox, umbrel?
How do you keep things the most safe, auto updates, vpn?
Lay it on me wise ones, how do I dip a toe into this and still have a fun?
Proxmox is definitely one of the simplest to get going and get things up and running in if you want a place to do a variety of things.
lots of stuff there to help roll out containers/VMs (PiHole/Adguard/Home Assistant/etc
Proxmox is my plan for whenever I have time to do my VMware migration. Or maybe I’ll just wait for Broadcom to sue me for using my perpetual licenses.
I run Proxmox in my home lab.
My colleagues use it in the simulators and test benches at work, having panic migrated away from the VMware ecosystem after their acquisition and asshattery.
Throw RAM at the boxes, even little NUCs can be surprisingly useful as lab/test machines.
Shame of shames, I know a guy that didn’t put Proxmox on the Ventoy USB stick that he shipped out to some fellow in northern California.
Also: Stock up on RAM NOW. The AI- caused RAM pricing apocalypse is upon us.
Pi-hole.
Yeah that was such a cool tool. Even easier than using etcher, definitely faster.
Hmmmm, Maybe I can get that RAM on Ebay since it is older.
proxmox is cool and you can do a lot of fun stuff on it. I migrated from vmware to proxmox last year.
Emby
pi.hole
seafile
Immich
Mealie
and a bunch of CI/CD stuff that I test with
gitlab
dockerhub
jenkins
On LXC (basically just docker on proxmox) I have openwebui with an LLM and MQTT running.
pi.hole is ok to run on proxmox, but if you use it for your primary/only dns resolver, you could run into issues. A friend of mine was doing that and is running into issues with his nightly backups failing because of some DNS issue while the box is trying to backup the pi.hole vm. He’s setting up a second pi.hole on dedicated hardware elsewhere on the network.
If you have 3 NUCs and they’re all identical, then you can look into clustering them with a clustered disk. Then if one dies, the stack will stay up.
I want to do that, but my homelab is using slightly larger hardware.
The R510 is the old VMWare box.
The R730XD is the proxmox box.
The HP only gets turned on if I’m batch transcoding a bunch of Bluray movies. The 15k SAS drives make short work of transcoding large movie files. Not SSD speeds, but not too shabby.
The R730xd is the only one turned on right now. I’m thinking of converting the R510 to an unraid and using it to backup the 730xd to.
I use proxmox. My HA is in it. I run jellyfin too. I have a couple of other things, but they don’t get used much. I run adguard as an add on in home assistant. It could/should be in proxmox instead. It is like pihole. I can’t remember why I chose it over the pihole, but I was convinced at the time.
For hosting files/photos, I still mostly use google. But if I were to switch, I would use proton. Having that stuff in an offsite backup is a big deal. I just also want privacy. It is hard to find a good combo.
Are we going to get a v1e designed mostly printed server rack?
WHOA
I have compared them a few times and it does seem like AdGuard is always slightly preferred.
What is the V1E pro CNC going to look like!?!
I gave it my reference images and all it did was black it out and throw a box on top
and cable chain without my cables in it…
(I do like the black with silver though…)
But anyway…
Did I hear a LR4 Pro Beta invite???
The LR4 does look good.
oh… I just noticed it flipped my Peter Plates to the inside too lol
so if you want to use high availability you need shared storage (which proxmox does well) and 3 nodes. Not sure why/who designed it that way, but yeah, 3 nodes for high availability.
I have toyed with using it. I have not yet. Getting ready to shut down vmware here at work. All going to Azure.
Maybe getting a little off topic. I recently subbed to this guy who designs some interesting stuff, including this server rack/cnc controller
And came across these other 3d printed server racks the other day
I’m not sure. It may already be too late and panic buying now may just be buying into the peak. Like buying a used car just after covid.
I grabbed the other matching 16gb stick for $40 to max out the i7 nuc. I will start there. The other i5 has 2x8gb, I will use that one as a tester for now. If I find a solid use for it I can upgrade that ram and hopefully offset with selling the 2x8 it has. I think the i7nuc will keep me plenty busy for a while.
I’ve been running the same unraid config for 13+ years. Moved it to different boxes and updates.
Would recommend.
