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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/saeed953 on 2024-01-24 07:07:46+00:00.

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I want to expand my DS920+ but I already have x18 TB = 72 TB. But I don’t know what to do exactly to upgrade with new unit while having both connected with each other. Or should I use different approach?

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/middlemangv on 2024-01-24 06:54:25+00:00.

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first time posting here, as I just started with my Firewall journey and bought Fortinet 40F Fortiguard.

Basically I'm a noob, didn't work too much with Firewalls but I'm learning and trying.

I have two sites. 1st site: Fortinet 2nd site: Watchguard

I need to connect those two sites.

NO Public Static IPs:

1st site: Fortinet is using its build in DDNS. There is an ISP router before it. I configured the DMZ to 192.168.1.254 to point it to Fortinet. Fortinet uses other subnet 10.11.1.0/24

2nd site: There is no ISP router before it but the IP is not static. It changes from time to time and ISP won't do anything about it. I created DDNS with free public DDNS provider. Watchguard is using subnet 192.168.88.0/24

What I did:

1. Went to "IPsec Tunnels" and created new "Custom" tunnel
2. Remote Gateway was set to be a Dynamic DNS. I figured out, after reading documentation, that this is DDNS for the other site so I typed it in
3. Interface that I'm using is wan1. wan1 is basically, as the name says, my go out to the internet port
4. The rest for "Network" in Edit VPN tunnel settings is left on default

Regarding authentication I just set Pre-Shared key with and typed simple password.

On IKE Version I choose 2.

Phase 1 Proposal:

• I left only AES256 for Encryption and SHA256 for Authentication. I removed any other encryption and authentication choices. Diffie-Helman group is 14

Phase 2 Selectors:

• I basically just typed in my local IP for Fortinet on "Local Address" and I typed in local Watchguard IP on "Remote address" with their subnets which are /24.

So basically, after I was done with this, I went to Policy & Objects > Firewall Policy

I added two Policies - first one:

name: VPN remote site

Incoming interface: internal - this is my lan

Outgoing interface: I choose the tunnel interface that I created on IPSec tunnel option.

Source: 4 all

Destination: I created an address. I went to Network/Addresses and addes an address or a subnet with IP and its Netmask and I named it accordingly.

Service: ALL

Action: Accept

NAT: I switched it off

Everything else is left on default and I clicked OK.

Then, on the same menu - Firewall Policy I just clicked on newly created policy and "Created reverse policy".

After that I went to "Network > Static Routes>Create New"

Destination: Subnet, I just typed in subnet of the remote Watchguard

Interface: I choose that Tunnel Interface that was created on "IP Sec Tunnel" in the first steps.

So this should be it for Fortiguard, right? Hopefully I didn't make any mistakes. Or maybe I did, or maybe there is some practice that I am not aware of.

After that I logged in to Watchguard Firebox, and I may have some noobish problems but:

VPN > Branch Office VPN and on "Gateways" I clicked "Add". Added a name to my Gateway and on

Credential Method I selected "Use Pre-Shared Key" and typed in the same key as I did on Fortiguard.

On "Phase 1 Settings" I selected IKEv2 version and left everything else on default.

I went back and clicked "add" on "Gateway Endpoint" > Local Gateway

External interface: External

Interface IP Address: Primary interface IPv4 Address

Specify the gateway ID for tunnel authentication > By Domain Name and I typed in domain name or DDNS of the local gateway aka Watchguard. I don't know if this is correct, but to me, its logical that Local Gateway ID is local gateway for Watchguard.

On "Remote Gateway" I selected Dynamic IP address for "Specify the remote gateway IP address for a tunnel"

and I selected "By Domain Name" on "Specify the remote gateway ID for tunnel authentication" and I typed in Fortiguard DDNS that I created when I bought Fortiguard. Everything else was left on default.

After that I went on creating Tunnel in "Branch Office VPN"

Added, named it, and on "Addresses" I added Local IP (Watchguard) and Remote IP (Fortiguard) and for the type I choose Network IPv4.

Direction: bidirectional

For Phase 2 Settings:

I enabled perfect Forward Secrecy and Choose Diffie-Hellman Group 14

On IPSec Proposals I choose ESP-AES256-SHA256, as I did on my fortiguard AES256 and SHA256.

Clicked save, and the rest of the settings are on default.

What now? What are my next steps? Do I have to add some policy in Watchguard or what, because I think that some policies are already added after creating BoVPN? I tried to be as much as detailed as possible.

Any answer is highly appreciated.

Btw it is worth nothing that there is already one site to site connection on fortinet to another remote destination. I don't know if it means something but maybe you should know. Thanks!

TUNNEL STATE from Fortinet: I typed this command in CLI: get vpn ipsec tunnel summary

Output: 'MZ RemoteVPN' IP address:0 selectors(total,up): 1/0 rx(pkt,err): 0/0 tx(pkt,err): 0/0

#diagnose vpn tunnel list

list all ipsec tunnel in vd 0

name=MZ RemoteVPN ver=2 serial=7 192.168.1.254:0->IP address:0 tun_id=10.0.0.7 tun_id6=::10.0.0.7 dst_mtu=0 dpd-link=off weight=1

bound_if=5 lgwy=static/1 tun=intf mode=auto/1 encap=none/552 options[0228]=npu frag-rfc run_state=0 role=primary accept_traffic=1 overlay_id=0

proxyid_num=1 child_num=0 refcnt=3 ilast=43646953 olast=43646953 ad=/0

stat: rxp=0 txp=0 rxb=0 txb=0

dpd: mode=on-demand on=0 idle=20000ms retry=3 count=0 seqno=0

natt: mode=none draft=0 interval=0 remote_port=0

fec: egress=0 ingress=0

proxyid=Deponija remote proto=0 sa=0 ref=1 serial=2

src: 0:10.11.0.0-10.11.0.255:0

dst: 0:192.168.88.0-192.168.88.255:0

On Firebox using WSM I clicked on Branch office VPN Tunnels and on Gateway there is red X and the message from Endpoint: 1 - No response for IKE_SA_INIT request message. Check connection between the local and remote gateway endpoitns Local 192.168.88.0 Remote 10.11.0.0 (inactive)

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/WiFiKyle80211 on 2024-01-24 06:10:30+00:00.

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Hey homelabbers, how hosed am I?

TLDR: After my ESXi hypervisor failed to boot, I initially re-installed ESXi v8 which re-partitioned one of my Datastores for OSDATA. v8 wouldn't bring up network interfaces, so I backed down to v7 (original OS) which is running, but missing my Datastore.

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So, I'm running ESXi (free version) on a Dell R620 at home. I have the hypervisor installed on an internal USB. Today I lost power and the server would no longer boot, giving Error 33, due a corrupted disk.

I'm away from home this week, so not having physical access I ended up re-installing ESXi 6.7 on the same USB drive as a temporary solution since I need it running for some stuff I'm working on. Once 6.7 was installed, I was able to see all my Datastores and register a few VMs. Soon though I realized 6.7 was not the version I had on their previously since some VMs failed to register. (It was apparently v7.0.3 I found out later)

After some poor decisions in a rush to get this running, I opted to to go with ESXi v8. I did read the KB about phasing out installations to USB and how you can opt to use an existing VMFS Datastore for OSDATA if you choose to still install the hypervisor on the USB. During the installation, I initially selected one of my datastores, but did not proceed with that after I found that dedicating space for OSDATA off the USB is optional.

I got v8 installed, but for whatever reason now I couldn't get any network connectivity running. That's when I found the version I had previously been running (7.0.3), so I started over and loaded 7.0.3.

Now with v7 running, that disk has no datastore. I tried going through the process detailed here () but ran into some issues, for one the partition is definitely due to v8 partitioning it for OSDATA. The Previous Datastore was named 'Databank'. Also, the partition appears to be locked anyway. Any advice on how to recover my datastore? or am I out of luck?

Current Datastores (Databank missing)

Databank and Primary are RAID disks managed by PERC H710

Databank is on the Device listed with 10TB

Current Partitions shown on device

RAID disks as shown on iDRAC. ("Primary" datastore is on Disk1 which contains 4x 1TB Disks -- "Databank" datastore is on VirtualDisk1 which contains 4x 3TB Disks)

And finally, this is the output I got when I followed the guide linked above:

[root@esx:~] partedUtil getptbl /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6848f690e95b95002b565919089b8487
gpt
1458999 255 63 23438819328
7 2048 268435455 4EB2EA3978554790A79EFAE495E21F8D vmfsl 0
[root@esx:~] offset="128 2048"; for dev in `esxcfg-scsidevs -l | grep "Console Device:" | awk {'print $3'}`; do disk=$dev; echo $disk; partedUtil getptbl $disk; { for i in `echo $offset`; do echo
"Checking offset found at $i:"; hexdump -n4 -s $((0x100000+(512*$i))) $disk; hexdump -n4 -s $((0x1300000+(512*$i))) $disk; hexdump -C -n 128 -s $((0x130001d + (512*$i))) $disk; done; } | grep -B 1
 -A 5 d00d; echo "---------------------"; done
/vmfs/devices/disks/mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0
gpt
7480 255 63 120176640
1 64 204863 C12A7328F81F11D2BA4B00A0C93EC93B systemPartition 128
5 208896 8595455 EBD0A0A2B9E5443387C068B6B72699C7 linuxNative 0
6 8597504 16984063 EBD0A0A2B9E5443387C068B6B72699C7 linuxNative 0
7 16986112 120176606 4EB2EA3978554790A79EFAE495E21F8D vmfsl 0
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...
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/vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6848f690e95b95002697603f1ac1c929
gpt
364602 255 63 5857345536
1 2048 5857343488 AA31E02A400F11DB9590000C2911D1B8 vmfs 0
Checking offset found at 2048:
0200000 d00d c001
0200004
1400000 f15e 2fab
1400004
0140001d  50 72 69 6d 61 72 79 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |Primary.........|
0140002d  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
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/vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6848f690e95b95002b565919089b8487
gpt
1458999 255 63 23438819328
7 2048 268435455 4EB2EA3978554790A79EFAE495E21F8D vmfsl 0
Checking offset found at 2048:
0200000 d00d c001
0200004
1400000 f15f 2fab
1400004
0140001d  4f 53 44 41 54 41 2d 36  35 62 30 37 61 37 31 2d  |OSDATA-65b07a71-|
0140002d  35 36 63 62 63 39 35 34  2d 61 34 37 30 2d 62 63  |56cbc954-a470-bc|
---------------------
...
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[root@esx:~] partedUtil getUsableSectors /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6848f690e95b95002b565919089b8487
34 23438819294
[root@esx:~]
[root@esx:~] partedUtil setptbl /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6848f690e95b95002b565919089b8487 gpt "1 2048 23438819294 AA31E02A400F11DB9590000C2911D1B8 0"
gpt
0 0 0 0
1 2048 23438819294 AA31E02A400F11DB9590000C2911D1B8 0
Error: Read-only file system during write on /dev/disks/naa.6848f690e95b95002b565919089b8487
SetPtableGpt: Unable to commit to disk

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/Bernie51Williams on 2024-01-24 06:07:48+00:00.

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Embarrassingly 10 years ago I had the knowledge to at the very least create and route vlans in a cisco home lab in CLI. I have forgotten 70% of what I've learned but its coming back to me. I'm not asking for "how do I set this up"...I'm more looking for idea and conversation.

Protectli 4 port 2.5GB running OPNsense

Unifi 24 port 2.5ghz layer 3 core switch

Supplemental secondary switch for a few 10GB interfaces.

Connected devices will be your standard layout I suppose: 4-5 Pcs, plenty of IOT and some Wyze cams/nest doorbell, a few printers.... 2 rack servers SPF+ Cisco UCS240/NAS/UPS/PDU (managed). Then some old cisco equipment (touch on this below).

Like I said I remember/understand the concept of vlans but routing between them and/or giving devices access to a different vlan is what I need to brush up on, about start watching hours of youtube. I remember tagging and trunk ports but none of the actual implementation. I recall 802.1Q? Is that correct lol? Ive never setup a lab where my devices would be in production, I've just installed opnsense so no experience there or with any "real" firewall, lots of videos to watch.

First I'm wondering about the physical connection from opnsense box to switch. Thinking of LACP which leaves me one port. I assume the unifi WAP needs to be connected to unifi switch to be seen by the controller? (I've never used U gear)...if its possible or wise to hang the AP off the protectli let me know. I could go with a dedicated management port (no idea how to setup, maybe that's another post later) Or I could hit the router for the old cisco equipment straight from the protectli. I don't want the cisco gear to hit the wan as its old and unsecured so I'm debating or learning rather whether to hang this off the core switch or opnsense box, suppose it wouldn't matter with its own vlan and/or FW rules (I've zero experience with rules as well).

As for a management port I'm going to need a management vlan for server IPMI, router/switches/PDU/UPS..I suppose a dedicated port may be worth it as well, Id lose LACP from router to switch, I don't really see this making much difference at 2.5gb throughput especially considering cross vlan routing should be done at the switch level. I'm no expert though, if there's something to be gained aside from redundancy let me know.

As for vlan division what do you guys typically do? Ill need a guest wifi that doesn't have access to our PCs and servers/nas...I see many people put cams on a separate network ( I only have a few). I'm not 100% sure what all I am doing with the servers as of now, there will be a Cisco UC lab, some form of nas and storage for backups but they most certainly be accessed constantly. I'm wondering if I should separate appliances (servers/nas) and clients (PCs) as well if only for security. I wouldn't even think of this with an L2 switch, maybe its still dumb regardless?

Honestly I'm just getting this out so I have something to look at tomorrow. There a ton of these posts here and I'm sorry to bog this board down with another one. However if you read this far please poke holes in anything I've said or let me learn from your previous mistakes. I'm very very rusty at this and some of what I said may not make any sense or be practical/possible at all. Its going to be a few months a least learning to optimize but I'm up for the challenge. This is now my fav sub.

Thanks Nerds, love ya

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/jh46 on 2024-01-24 04:59:27+00:00.

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Scored a Gizmac xRack Pro - it's an older fully enclosed cabinet that was designed for sound reduction. There are some older posts on here about them, but I have a question I didn't see covered.

From the factory the sound reduction is accomplished with pretty standard acoustic foam-- looks like it was Soundcoat Soundfoam, about 2lbs/ft³, pretty standard stuff.

The foam in mine was pretty much perished- it had been stored in a hot warehouse for a few years, so beyond filthy the foam was just crumbling.

Acoustic foam with similar density is easy enough to find, but my question: is there more effective soundproofing I can throw at this thing while I have it all torn apart?

My first thought is adding Dynamat under the foam, I'm just not sure if it's worthwhile. Planning on being more thorough with the foam if nothing else, and replacing the fans.

I'm not putting anything too crazy loud in it, mostly 2u stuff, but want to give it the best shot while I have the chance.

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/EpicLPer on 2024-01-24 04:48:24+00:00.

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Heya,

I'll copy/paste most of the things I put into the same issue over on GitHub in case someone on Reddit knows a solution for this :) Thanks already!

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Trying to add any new SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt (renewing works fine) results in the console throwing the below error. The web interface simply shows "Internal Error".

It seems to save it just fine, but later when NPM tries to "process" that certificate somehow it seems to fail. Successfully received certificate. Certificate is saved at: /etc/letsencrypt/live/npm-39/fullchain.pem Key is saved at: /etc/letsencrypt/live/npm-39/privkey.pem This certificate expires on 2024-04-21. These files will be updated when the certificate renews. ... trunkated for Github ... [1/22/2024] [7:29:00 AM] [Global ] › ⬤ debug CMD: /usr/sbin/nginx -t -g "error_log off;" [1/22/2024] [7:29:00 AM] [Nginx ] › ℹ info Reloading Nginx [1/22/2024] [7:29:00 AM] [Global ] › ⬤ debug CMD: /usr/sbin/nginx -s reload [1/22/2024] [7:29:01 AM] [Global ] › ⬤ debug CMD: openssl x509 -in /etc/letsencrypt/live/npm-39/fullchain.pem -subject -noout [1/22/2024] [7:29:01 AM] [Global ] › ⬤ debug CMD: openssl x509 -in /etc/letsencrypt/live/npm-39/fullchain.pem -issuer -noout [1/22/2024] [7:29:01 AM] [Global ] › ⬤ debug CMD: openssl x509 -in /etc/letsencrypt/live/npm-39/fullchain.pem -dates -noout [1/22/2024] [7:29:01 AM] [Express ] › ⚠ warning Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'meta')

Nginx Proxy Manager Version 2.11.1 (same issue before I upgraded from, I believe, 2.10.4)

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Add new SSL certificate
2. Try to request a certificate from Let's Encrypt (subdomain and wildcard requests throw the same error)
3. Check the error logs for above error

Operating System Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/Rd750kzee on 2024-01-24 04:19:33+00:00.

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I am wondering if $200 is a good price to but the dell poweredge t420

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/Rhyeayce on 2024-01-24 04:15:39+00:00.

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The problem is that when I run zpool trim rpool I get cannot trim: no devices in pool support trim operations. I understood that this is pretty bad for SSD performance (varying by age of model). 1 Correct me if I'm wrong, but I suspect that this is especially bad with ZFS.

The two SSDs are Samsung 850 EVO which specs state have TRIM support 1 2, and it reads it available through smartctl as well as hdparm -I /dev/sd*.

I've tried to use HBA mode via the BIOS menu's controls of the H730 RAID card, and it still doesn't work. I have reason to believe that it's not 'true' HBA. 1 2 3

Given that the SSD and OS (Proxmox 8.1.4, Kernel: 6.5.11-7-pve) support TRIM, I strongly suspect that the culprit is the H730 RAID part.

What can I do to get TRIM support for my SSDs using the PowerEdge 730XD?

Ideally, there's something that I can do with just this hardware, but I'm open to replacing the H730 Mini Raid Controller.

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/sowhatidoit on 2024-01-24 01:13:16+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/fudge_u on 2024-01-24 04:07:06+00:00.

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Here's my scenario:

• The builders installed Cat5E cable in my home when it was built over 10 years ago.
• The Cat5E was only used for telephones, not ethernet.
• This week I replaced 6 out of 7 telephone jacks with RJ45 keystone jacks.
• I removed the blue/white wires from the telephone block and straightened out all of the wires within the Cat5E cables.
• The telephone block is directly next to the breaker panel.
• The Cat5E cables are also all next to the breaker panel and the cables are tight. There's no slack for me to pull more from.
• I was trying to install a patch panel, but there's not enough room near the breaker panel for me to install one.
• The area around the breaker panel is surround by insulation with no drywall.
• Replacing the existing cables for something longer or better isn't an option because they're buried in the walls and they go up two floors.
• I want to setup my homelab about 10 feet away from the breaker panel, so I need a way to extend my cables.

My question is, what is the best way to extend the length of the existing Cat5E cables without affecting network performance?

It seems like junction boxes might be the best way, but I'm wondering if there are any other options available that I should consider. Please let me know.

TIA.

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/RoyalClintonApperson on 2024-01-24 04:00:13+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/Deepspacecow12 on 2024-01-24 03:56:04+00:00.

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Crappy DSL, no alternatives and $95 a month. Please, do not tell me that wireline will be faster, because its about a quarter the speed and this seems to happen every time wwan comes up rather than actual help. If I can get the AWS band, I can get ~90mbps down compared to 25mbps on a really good day.

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/lemonquestion on 2024-01-24 03:38:20+00:00.

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Hello, I recently got hold of a C6420 with 4 node but for some reason I can't get video out of any of the DP port on all 4 node. I can however login into the idrac and use the virtual console. So I know the node is working and I was able to load the OS but just not able to physically use the DP port. Do you know if I am missing something here? The current config per node is 2x Gold 6140M 64gb ram, a x710-D2 Pcie card into the PCIe slot. I hook up a mini DP to DVI cable to a monitor but no signal. Thank you for your time.

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/Milk_Truckin on 2024-01-24 03:30:53+00:00.

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I'm considering consolidating my home lab into one or two machines max and my main desktop

When I decided I wanted to try getting into home lab, it was basically only out of curiosity without much of an actual need. I watched a bunch of YouTube videos and gathered up pretty much anything I could find with an Ethernet or USB port thinking the more I had the more options for experimenting I would have.

Fast forward a few months and basically all I've learned how to do was get extremely frustrated in a hurry lol. I had no previous knowledge of anything computer related Beyond basic skills needed to run a normal desktop. I thought I would pick things up quick like I usually do but didn't happen. Usually when I get a few minutes to mess with it I spent three quarters of that time trying to figure out where what I'm looking for is actually hosted and how to actually access it. Then most of the leftover time goes into me trying to figure out which sort of commands that machines CLI wants.

In hopes of wasting less time trying to navigate through tons of machines and wasting a ton of power and space I'm considering eliminating both of the r710s and laptops and just keeping the 7700x as my main desktop with the 7950x as the taking over everything home lab while running proxmox.

As an alternative I've also considered making the 7950x machine my main desktop using the 7700x dedicated to truenas and adding a r730xd 36 core for docker and anything else that I wouldn't want to run on proxmox.

Thoughts?

Current landscape: Ryzen 7700x 8 core main desktop

Ryzen 7950x 16 core win 11 pro/hyperv > truenas scale

Lenovo 4core laptop proxmox gui w/ nvme ssd storage

Msi gf63 8 core changes almost weekly

R710 (a) 12 core? 600gb local storage, Proxmox hosting lan gaming server currently out of order while I try to figure out if it is possible to recover the VM of the gaming server after I messed up the lvm structure blindly following YouTube videos

R710 (b) 12 core? 600gb local storage was running win server 2019 but just switched to proxmox while I figure out the other r710.

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/EvilPhreak on 2024-01-24 02:45:12+00:00.

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Hey all, just getting into networking with DAC cables. I'm thinking of purchasing a hpe sfp28 nic with a network processor made by mellanox. It will be connecting to a ubiquiti switch. My question is does the board supplier HPE or the mellanox processor determine what type cable I should use ie an HPE or mellanox compatible cable? Thanks for the help.

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/Prudent-Ad486 on 2024-01-24 02:38:59+00:00.

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Hello all!

I am on a Starlink internet connection and am unable to port forward or do anything like that because of my CGNAT. I would still like to be able to access my network from outside of my home, though. Would it be possible to establish a persistent VPN connection from the inside of my network to outside nodes such as my smartphone, laptop, etc. I was thinking of a service such as Wireguard. Is this something that is possible in my situation?

I worry that a VPS may be an unavoidable step here...but I really would like to be able to access my internal resources over a VPN from abroad.

If somebody could explain the network aspect of this to me I would very much appreciate it, I have been struggling with this concept for a while now.

Thanks so much!

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/sowhatidoit on 2024-01-24 01:13:16+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/ashleythesemendemon on 2024-01-24 01:12:47+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/Neowarex2023 on 2024-01-24 01:04:53+00:00.

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FROM:

E5-2697 v4 (18 core, 2.30/3.60GHz)

8 x 32GB @/2133 (384GB Total)

TO:

E5-2699A v4 (22 core, 2.40/3.60GHz)

8 x 32GB @/2400 (512GB Total)

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Costs to purchase

~$400 for 2 CPUs

~$752 for 12 RAM sticks

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/tercra on 2024-01-23 23:32:09+00:00.

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I've seen many post regarding this topic (both on Reddit and other sites). I am relatively new to this, so I am just a bit confused about my options. My current setup:

• Dell R720
  • RAID Controller: H710
  • CPU (Processor): Intel Xeon E5-2680v2 (2.8GHz/10-Core/25MB/115W)
  • 128 GB Memory
  • 6 x 4 TB SAS Drives
  • 2 x SAMSUNG 870 EVO SATA III 1 TB SSD
  • 2 x Intel 160GB SSD DC S3500 6Gb/s 2.5INCH SATA SSD and FlexBay (not yet installed)
  • LSI 9207-8i (IBM M5110) FLASHED TO IT MODE PCI-E SAS2308 ZFS (not yet installed)

My end goal is to run TrueNAS and existing/future VMs (PfSense, Cisco CML, Ubuntu, Window, Dockers, etc.) on the R7120.

The front bay drive backplane for the 2 1TB and 2 4TB SASs connect to the H710. I currently dont have the 160 Gb drives and FlexBay installed.

Is it possible to cable the frontbay backplane so that 2 1TB Gb SSDs and 2 SAS drives go to H710 for ESXi, while the other 4 4TB SAS drives AND the FlexBay drives connect to the LSI 9207-8i for TrueNAS?

Please pump the brakes for me if I am going about this the wrong way.

First question I'm asking myself is "Are you over complecating this?" Second is, "Should I run TruNAS as a VM on ESXi?"

Plase help.

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/tgp1994 on 2024-01-24 00:53:04+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/magnets1026 on 2024-01-24 00:12:29+00:00.

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Been reading a lot about these PCs and I picked up a barebones case and motherboard from an 805 G8 Mini on eBay for less than $50 bucks. I'm guessing one of the reasons it was cheap is that CPU availability for these on the used market is pretty slim because they use the PRO versions of the Ryzen 5000 APUs. I was wondering if anyone on here had ever attempted to install one the of the consumer Ryzen 5000 series APUs just to see if they might work despite not being officially supported. I am not optimistic based on all that I've read but I can't find an example of anyone that has documented trying this. If anyone has any info let me know, thanks!

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/sushikingdom on 2024-01-23 23:51:21+00:00.

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I’m buying a 14TB WD Ultrastar from one of those popular refurbished hard drive vendors.

What are my best options to wipe the drive completely? I want to make sure it’s completely wiped without any past data, etc.

Also, anybody have recommendations for an external enclosure? I want to connect it to one of my mini PCs and use as a backup to my Plex library hosted inside of a WD 16TB Easystore.

Your help is appreciated!

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/blurcore on 2024-01-23 23:41:55+00:00.

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Took me quite some time to do this and it's not the prettiest for sure. I will add quite a bit more details in the near future, which I am not too keen on sharing with the public. So this is what I will share.

Right now the two servers are running in an ESXi cluster with vCenter, one with a TrueNAS instance and HBA, the 2nd for redundancy (pfSense) and some other ~~mission critical~~ things. I think in a homelab the most, really critical thing is my data.

I'll add 10Gbit in some places and switch to bare metal TrueNAS and a Proxmox.

Best

PS: Tools used: Obsidian and Excalidraw (plugin) The table is actually from another .md file so it is somewhat dynamic. Same will be done for the services running on the machines / cluster. A to do for the future but will not change too much visually.

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/28tuesday on 2024-01-23 23:33:41+00:00.

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I have:

• R720xd,
• Perc H710p D1 mini flashed into IT mode ()
• A SSD connected to the USB port near the SATA ports on the board, via a SATA to USB cable. This is where my TrueNAS is installed.

Questions:

1. When flash the H710p D1 mini, I forgot to note down the SAS address, but the flash worked, I got the pool setup in the TrueNAS with no problem... SO what would happpen here? since I missed the step of copying the old SAS back?
2. Every time it reboots, it will not boot in to the SSD, but showing "not bootable drive", IF I intercept the booting process, and enter into the BootManager, and I manually enter to BIOS setup, and select my SSD from the list, it works fine.. How do I set the SSD as a default boot drive so I don't have to manually select it every time?

Thank you !!