homelab

I bought a Eaton Ellipse Eco 650 USB DIN for my Homelab. I connected it to my nas which is running OpenMediaVault because OMV has a NUT Plugin. I conneced it, it got recognised and i thought i should test it. So i switched the breaker off and my nas turned off safely after my entered time. I then went to turn the breaker back on, but after a few seconds the ups shuts the power off all devices and applies it after a second. This only happens when the nas is connected via usb.

• is there a setting that i missed in nut?
• is my ups broken (i dont think so)
• what could be the problem?

Edit: Wow, the Eaton Germany Support is terrible. I called them multiple times and i think they dont even have a Call Center. I now submitted a Support Ticket. They could at least tell you that they dont have telephone support right now. If i get a response i will update this.

Edit2: It turns out, it was a issue with the integrated nut tools in OpenMediaVault. After removing them and installing them via apt and configuring it with the config files, it works without any power loss.

Hi there,

I have an RJ45 port in the wall which needs to be in use. I'll be moving a piece of furniture soon which will be (almost) right up against the wall. This will restrict the space in front of the port. The cable connected to the port will have to drastically bend at the connection point and I'm worried that'll be a problem.

I've found some 90 degree RJ45 male connectors online which seem appropriate. This way the cable won't have to bend. Any experience with these?

Any other advice is welcome.

Thanks in advance

I'm just going to be vulnerable for a minute here. I met the first person in real life who had similar server-y linux-y obsessions to me and we'd send eBay links of systems to drool over to eachother. They ended up being a terrible person but hid it from me pretty well until they couldn't anymore and now I no longer have someone to chat with about those things.

So um, I guess I'm open for applications for the position of "nerdy friend who I nerd too hard with about network infrastructure and Linux packages" now

Edit: Autocorrect errors manually corrected

I'm looking in to upgrading my home lab setup with a rack and a rack mount case. I live in EU so it would be nice if you can give any input on where to buy networking equipment/supplies, case and a rack.

I don't want to buy of Amazon but any input is appreciated.

Hello there!

I am extremely new to this kind of stuff, and I’m excited to learn! I have recently acquired a Raspberry Pi 4b, which I would like to use to learn how to.. even begin with any of this. My experience with Linux is Ubuntu in 2008, then nothing until setting up my PiHole (I love you PiHole.)

I’ve heard all sorts of things about Docker and stuff. It seems above my head at this point when I’ve looked into it.

What I’d love to do is set up my Pi as a lil NAS. I’m seeing a video from this lovely fellow for setting up OpenMediaVault. Would you folks recommend I follow this verbatim, or should I do more research before doing such a thing? I think I overdid it on my OS card, by snagging a 256GB Extreme Pro (maybe should have gone endurance? I have a USB SSD and some USB HDDs I can use for this lil project.

Anyway, after learning that, I also have a GSA I came across with like 156GB RAM and like ten SAS drives. My mate tells me UNRAID might be the best choice for that. I’m a bit intimidated coming from nothing, so I’d like to play with my Pi first.

I suppose my main question is, for my use-case, does anyone have any resources, video or reading or whatever, that might help this situation? I’ve dug around a bunch but I’m in over my head. I’m good at tech stuff (CFW on my phones when I used Android, which was tough in the G1-G2 days, CFW on my PSP/3DS/Vita back when it wasn’t easy, standard-to-great PC building skillz like most of y’all) but this is a whole ‘nother beast!

I have ATT 1gb fiber at the moment but I was looking to upgrade to 2gb. I haven’t been paying attention and it turns out I can do that with either ATT or google fiber and it would cost $10 less than I am currently paying. My only concern is I don’t want to upgrade to find myself behind a CGNat and wanted to know if either of them implement it. Otherwise I’ve had no problems running my homelab off my current att fiber plan.

Also question to anyone with google fiber, are there any issues related to running a homelab that you’ve run into?

Thinking of lining the inside side panels of my 48u rack with some sort of sound deadening material. Was going to go with rock wool or the cheap self adhesive foam bricks you can buy off amazon. Was thinking of doing the same thing to the ceiling above where my rack sits and the walls behind as well. Mainly trying to cut down on the echo and high frequency whines. Anyone have any advice or suggestions? Maybe talk me out of it, or some other solution?

I'm buying a Cat 6 cable. I have two available choices. One has fire rating "CM", and the other has Euroclass rating "Eca". Which one is more fire resistant? I was not able to find an equivalence table. Is "CM" comparable to "Eca"?

Hi everyone!

I saw this video yesterday (https://youtu.be/vjDoQA4C22c) showing a nice custom homelab build that's a lot of bang for the buck, and I felt that it was time to replace my tired old Asustor NAS with something more fun. But I would like your wise advice and experience. 😊

Purpose:

1. Torrentstation - automated with Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr via qbittorrent and through Wireguard VPN.

2. Media server - I am currently running Plex Media Server on the NAS, but it sometimes struggles. I can imagine moving over to Jellyfin.

3. File backup - standard, photos, etc. Local backup mirrored to cloud service.

4. Other bits and pieces such as Home Assistant, AdGuard/PiHole, tinkering with some Linux stuff [insert your best tip here]. 😀

In the video, he builds his own NAS based on an n5105 NAS motherboard. I'm looking at the new topton i3-n305 mini PC maybe, which is said to have slightly better performance (?). Both seem to be energy-efficient, quiet and very good value for money.

But I am open to other suggestions. Preferably as small a form factor as possible as I would prefer to hide it away in the small junction box cabinet or in the TV cabinet.

I've also been looking at an Intel NUC (i5 or something) and just throwing in my two NAS HDDs into a two disk Raid enclosure and connecting via USB-C. Yes/no?

Then OS and software wise. What should be the base on this thing? Ubuntu? As I mentioned I want to set up qBittorrent, Sonarr and Radarr like I have to today. Get them to work downloading the media I want and then run a Plex or Jellyfin server on the machine simultaneously that my Nvidia Shield Pro can connect to and run the media to my TV.

Thank you in advance! 😊

There is just something relaxing about those blinking lights y'know?

At the moment, I am using a single Dell Optiplex 7010 box as a multipurpose server: it runs OpenBSD and a lot of its base applications (relayd for reverse proxying, httpd as a HTTP server, pf as a firewall, etc) and some from the ports tree (like nsd for an authoritative NS, unbound for LAN DNS, …). It also runs a single Alpine VM inside that in turn hosts some dockerized apps (like Lemmy :-))

This setup is suboptimal, as OpenBSD's virtualization support is still in its early stages, so I wanted to make a defining change: move OpenBSD + all base stuff to a separate 'firewall' box and dedicate my 7010 to be a docker host (probably installing alpine linux directly).

My question is: what hardware can you recommend for the OpenBSD box? I would want something with low power consumption. It does not have to be beefy, most of the resource-hungry stuff will probably be on the docker box. One thing though: it would be nice to be able to handle gigabit network throughput for the future.

I have been looking at APU2 boards, Raspbery Pi 4B (I am not sure about the OpenBSD support, though), Intel NUCs, and also Dell Optiplex micros and minis. It would be great to get away with a budget below €100. Thanks in advance for any insight!

I'm trying to set up my server a dell power edge 420. My server is loud and proud of its power usage. Anyways my bedroom is upstairs and no good way to bring ethernet up. I don't feel like spending money on a WiFi card because I don't have money for it, but I do have a pi 4 and I was thinking to run the standard os, but use the Ethernet port to share to other comeputers. But my solution is super janky and I want something better.

I've recently stumbled across a used server on a local market place. It's a Xeon Silver 4309Y on a Supermicro X12SPM-LN6TF.

Does anyone have an idea what this CPU/Mobo combination draws at idle? I've not been successful finding anything online for this CPU. (Besides TDP.)

Hello c/homelab!

My NAS currently consists of 6TB of spinning rust, one disk only. As time goes on I increasingly think about how annoying it would be to lose it to a random drive failure.

So, I recently had an idea for a new storage setup when I saw a 2TB M.2 drive for £60-70 online. Given the low price, these drives are likely low-quality and probably cacheless too, but I have a potential solution: If I bought 4 of these and set them up in RAID10, would that be a sensible way to effectively double the speed and increase redundancy?

Yes, I know it's probably a silly idea when I can just spend more on 2 faster and more reliable drives, but I would like to at least hear from people who might have tried something similar! So what do you think?

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/1236407

On the left, my first 'proper' rack. Specs - Router - Cisco 887VAMW Unmanaged Netgear switch Two laptops (Asus X550Jk and HP Pavillion DV6) both running proxmox which has Pihole, Nextcloud, Bitwarden, Roundcube webmail and Nginx proxy server. Both laptops have their batteries removed to avoid them swelling too much. A Phillips Hue hub and TP Link Deco M5 router at the bottom. On top is a mishmash of leftover parts which is currently running TrueNas and Jellyfin. This is going to eventually replace the D-Link sharecentre hidden in the back. Specs of the pc on top - CPU - AMD FX 6100 (An older model but still has it where it counts) RAM - 8Gb DDR3 (Plans to upgrade it to 16Gb at some point) GPU - GeForce GT 710 (Honestly just there so I can get an ouput) Storage 2x 1Tb WD Red drives (With plans to add 2x 4tb WD Red Drives from Sharecentre)

On the right is the mess that is yet to be fixed. On the top shelf is a selection of cisco switches and routers which are being used as a lab for me doing my CCNA (Hence the mess there). On the bottom is the same Lack rack as on the left just with slightly different components. Specs - Router - Cisco 887VAMW Switch - Some managed Netgear switch from 2004 (It's on it's way out and will be replaced very soon) First Dell Poweredge R420, with two Xeon E5-2403, 80Gb RAM and about 3Tb of Storage. This is my new Proxmox host. Second Dell Poweredge R420 with a single Xeon E5-2403, 64Gb RAM and 7Tb Storage running TrueNas. On top is an old AMD Bulldozer machine I only use for ripping and encoding DVD files.

Bonus pic of my bottom rack.

So I posted not too long ago that I had a drive failure in my RaidZ pool. Ordered a replacement disk (WD RED, purpose built for NAS), and tried resilvering only to see this after a short while...

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/10214 https://www.truenas.com/docs/hardware/notices/componentarticles/wdsmr/ https://blog.westerndigital.com/wd-red-nas-drives/

Turns out WD started pushing out a new disk technology called SMR, that's slower, and fails when rebuilding RAIDs due to heavy write operations, and specifically marketed it towards NAS users? WTF Western Digital?!

Anyway, disk RMAd, and a replacement CMR disk is on the way. I'll never buy WD drives again... Lesson learned the hard way.

Hello Lemmings! I've been thinking about testing CEPH in my homelab, but to do it right I kinda want to build a cluster of systems, preferrably using SBCs to handle a CEPH storage drive each. Specifically, a single SATA disk would be preferred.

A while back I came across the ODROID HC1, which was perfect but I wasn't ready to pull the trigger at the time; the only thing I'd want above and beyond what the HC1 was capable of, is PoE to simplify power delivery. Unfortunately the HC1 is discontinued (and rather dated at this point), and I have yet to come across anything remotely similar. There are other boards along the same lines, like the HC4 from odroid, and others (often involving adding a SATA HAT to the SBC), but I'm not keen on that.

Essentially, I just want one drive per SBC, and build them into external drive-like enclosures with a single HDD each (3.5" is most likely), and just have a fleet of them. The idea would be to have a pair of "gateway" systems that are more robust, that can pull from the CEPH and portray that data as CIFS or NFS or iSCSI or whatever. Each SBC wouldn't need to be more than 1Gbps linked, but the gateway systems would likely be 10G linked off the same switch to take advantage of the bandwidth of the cluster.

Does anyone know of an SBC that's newer and similar in design to the HC1? Something newer/faster would be important, and something with PoE to power itself and the drive would be a nice-to-have (otherwise I'll rig up a high amperage DC rail for all the nodes so I can use a single "PSU" thing for it. If someone knows a better community to place this question, let me know.... still getting used to lemmy.

Hey all, I'm a complete self hosting noob. I'm gonna be getting my first homeserver soon and I'm stuck between these two options currently. They're the same price pretty as well which makes it harder.

The G4 has a GPU (Integrated RX 560), but the G5 has better specs (i7-9700T vs i5-8500T) plus a much higher RAM capacity (The G5's 64GB vs the G4's 32GB.)

I'm just curious to know if the GPU would even help in my use case? I'll mainly be using it for media (Jellyfin, Kavita, Navidrome) and a ton of tiny services that'll only take up a few MBs of RAM. With quicksync, I'm unsure if the GPU would even be useful for transcoding, especially since you can only use one at a time. The only time I can think of it being useful is maybe for Owncast, but I wouldn't stream a lot. It'd be super minimal, non demanding stuff for my friends. (Mainly movies and ocassional gameplay.) Even that's up for debate with Element call for Matrix coming up soon.

I appreciate any and all answers! I've spent a ton of time looking into this and it's been a pretty big headache tbh.

Recently rebuilt my homelab using proxmox and k3s. I like it a lot! Also loving dashy over the old heimdall dashboard.

If you have any suggestions for workloads, let me know!

Recently rebuilt my homelab. While restoring files to the new zpools, one of them had a few faults and ended up in a degraded state.

Replacement disk on the way, Hopefully resilvering the pool after disk replacement doesn't cause any more issues. Luckily, all the data is backed up as I recently rebuilt it, so no worries if it explodes.

I'm ready to get a rack very soon and install these bad boys in !

(Don't mind the dirty seats)

If anyone owns this device, what's the maximum amount of storage I can insert into the 2.5" SATA bay? I keep looking online, but I can't find it.

Is there any practical difference between switched and dedicated ports, such as those on the 2100 vs the ones on the 4100? Conceptually, I'd assign a port or a VLAN to an interface and then make rules on that interface, right?

I hate having to work on my R720 because getting it back into the rails is a major pain in the ass. It barely fits, so I have to wrestle with it for half an hour to get it to fit.

Is there a trick to this?