homelab

I have a z800 that is now thoroughly obsolete, but really like the form factor (feels very sturdy, built in handles, drive trays are nice and solid, form factor stacks with other stuff nicely, built to handle hauling around without falling apart).

I want a system that I will have a good number of cores to split across VMs, but it's hard to justify a z840 right now when even the fastest CPUs I can throw into it won't significantly beat the perf I get from my m1 pro MacBook.

What workstation alternatives have y'all found that would give me significantly better perf than I already get from my MacBook, with the kind of build and ergonomics of something like the z8x0 platform?

I'm planning to buy Smart TVs for my house and I wanted to know which TV OS has better support for homelab media apps.

Self-Hosted apps:

• Jellyfin
• Immich
• Nextcloud Memories
• Funkwhale or Navidrome or Mopidy
• AudioBookShelf

Non-selfhosted apps I use:

• Steam Link
• All Streaming apps (Netflix, Disney+, etc.)
• YouTube, YT Kids
• YouTube Music
• Spotify
• Audible

I thought would ask here (just joined the Lemmy world) but surely there must be a truenas community somewhere on the Lemmy world? Any Truenas users here?

So with Crypto mining being less profitable and miners selling their rigs for cheap I thought how can I get my self a cheap managed network switch. I saw mining motherboards with 12 PCIe 2.0 1x slots(4gbit bandwidth) and tought hey if I plug in some cheap 10g 2port network adapters I can make my own network switch with exactly the ports I need(SFP+ rj45). Put opensence on it and boom Managed network switch with multigig(2gbit per port). Is there something I am missing or have I found a way to get cheap multigig? Also can anyone who has a 10g only network switch tell me what kind of power it is using per port so I can compare? Thanks for debunking my idea and saving me a few bucks.

The 10GBase-LR is 1310nm and the QSFP-40G-LR4 CWDM channels are 1271, 1291, 1311 and 1331 nm. Are the 1310nm and 3rd channel 1311nm technically compatible?

I have a 10Gb and (will eventually have) a 40Gb switch both fitted with basic LR (Q)SFP+ transceivers and want to know if I can directly connect them or will I have to use an adapter to fit an SFP+ in an QSFP+ port?

I'm looking at using the XQX2502 QSFP+.

I installed opnsense on an i5-6500T (native, no vm) but it looks like the performance is very bad, most websites are timing out.

everything is turned off, there's no packet inspection or blocks, even the unbound dns server is not used (using a DC for that)

it's the computer that's underpowered, or i did some mistake in configuring it? Using two routers in the networks for my convenience

Hey all I am looking for some ideas to make my Dell SFF optiplexs rack mounted. Has anyone ever got them into a 1U chasie?

I'm in the early stages of redoing my homelab hardware. I have two Dell Optiplexs and I want to fit them in my rack / make them more aesthetically pleasing but without taking up any more space.

The only reason I'm not looking to replace them with a USFF / mini server is because I like being able to have two drives and pci slot for Ethernet ports but I'm willing to hear out other cost effective options. My rack is a short depth rack.

I have been thinking of completely going off Google. I have a Nextcloud server for documents and contacts and calendar. Thinking of moving mail away too. Currently I am conflicted between hosting my own email server. On searching only advice I am getting is not to do it.

How many of the homelabers do host their own email server? What software do you use? Any tips.

I have a RS1221+ that I am trying to setup as a NUT client. I see that a lot of the packages are already installed for a server config, however that's not what I'm looking for.

I have a Raspberry Pi setup as my server, which several other machines are being served from without issues.

How can I go about setting up my Synology NAS as a client?

I've gotten close. I see that the service is noticing when my UPS loses battery, and appears to be issuing the shutdown command, however nothing seems to happen.

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I have been playing with the NUT UPS utility, and have setup a NUT server on my Raspberry Pi.

I can see the UPS data on that server when I install the NUT package on Pfsense.

My question is, how can I configure when the Pfsense box will shutdown in a power loss event? Will it automatically shutdown at a given % out of the box, or is additional config needed?

Do I perhaps need to add something to this config section?

I am trying to figure out the optimal way to connect an 8 bay drive enclosure to a Dell Optiplex 7040 Micro. The end goal is to have the drives made available to a Proxmox cluster and kubernetes cluster. This is all for learning experience as well as to run services for personal use.

The cluster will be made up of 2x Optiplex 7040 and 2x Optiplex 3040. All have i7-6700t CPUs, the 3040s have 16GB DDR3 and 1TB SATA SSD each, and the 7040s each have 32GB DDR4 and 2TB NVMe drive with an additional empty SATA port on the motherboard. The enclosure is a MediaSonic ProBox with USB3.0 and eSATA interfaces available

I have heard that you shouldn’t use USB to connect to storage so I have been trying to figure out a way to use eSATA even though the Optiplex does not have an eSATA port. I found some SATA to eSATA cables on eBay, would that enable me to connect the enclosure directly to the free SATA port on the Optiplex?

Would this setup work? Is it worth it to sacrifice the additional SATA port on one of the 7040s in order to avoid using USB? I would like to maximize stability and speed.

I have not yet decided how I want to configure the drives but was planning to look into either a ZFS pool or ceph. All drives in the enclosure will be for media storage (movies/tv/music, was planning to keep pictures and documents elsewhere) and passed to LXCs and kubernetes cluster I plan to run on Proxmox.

Any guidance on the connection setup, storage configuration, or my plans in general would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

I bought an Optiplex 3080 SFF and bought upgrade parts for it but now it isn't running and I don't have enough troubleshooting skills to tell if the MOBO is dead or if the power button is dead. 😅

I can potentially shoot the ebay seller message to beg for product support.

I had it running with upgrade parts in for about 10 seconds and I held the power button to force it off. I assume I had it running once or twice before then, with the original configuration, too. It ran immediately after the "releasing extra power" trick where you unplug it and take out the CMOS battery and then hold the power button for ~15 seconds. Then put it back the way it was and close the case.

• Using non-original power cord
• PSU seems to pass BIST (no button, the light turns green for a few seconds and turns off when the power cord is plugged in)
• Have original parts and upgrade parts, can take out or swap out RAM, storage.

CMOS battery replacement? I have never done motherboard troubleshooting.

UPDATE: Edit: Yes it was simply the CMOS Battery. Popped a new 3V 2032 in there and the thing is running just fine with the original hardware.

Second Update: I contacted the eBay seller and they had notes for me about how to troubleshoot it that were identical to that of this community. The seller was insanely helpful, as were the comments I received here!

Anyone have any advice on how to choose between TruNAS, openmediavault, etc for homelab. I want to run nextcloud and jellyfin and maybe some VMs, though I also don't really think that RAID is the best option for future proofing but I could be wrong.

A cool theme would add a lot to the appearance of this community

Btrfs gets a bad rap sometimes but I have been using it for years and it works very well. It is able to take failing hardware and power outages and still has good performance.

Hi everyone,

I have a DL380 G8 server with a pretty hot raid controller, which crank the fans up in the server;

I would like to add a small 40x10 noctua fan on top of its heatsink but I don't know how can I power the fan in such a server.. I thought about USB to PWM connectors but it doesn't feel right...

There are 10pins connector inside the server, but buying a 10 pin to molex then molex to pwm feels weird too... maybe

Did any of you did something similar ? What are your idea to power the fan ?

Thank you!

Currently deciding between Fujitsu Futro S920 with intel quad NIC and Intel N100 Celeron router from Aliexpress.

Looking to spend around 80-150€. I live in EU so something that either ships from EU or china.

Any input is appreciated.

Hi!

So I did the hardest parts (buying and assembling, and setting up unraid) and got to the "fun" part (actually putting things on unraid) and now I'm just frozen in indecision and well... not knowing where to start, really.

I have a NVME ssd for my flash and two 8 TB HD, one to hold info and the other for parity.

I want to create an area for NAS - Storage of photos; stuff I want to share between android phone, computers and IPAD

I want to set up (probably plex) and the *arr stuff for video and such

and I assume at least some of the above will be in docker containers? Or are they better not?

I was also thinking of a pi-hole and wasn't sure if I could throw that in a docker instance?

I assume I should also... like... protect this with... sssstuff? But also since I'm mostly going to be using it LAN (though I could make it accessible openly?)

Honestly I am out of my depth.

It's not that there's no information, there's just too much information and I don't know how to sort through it and find answers that will be helpful to my situation so I was hoping some of you friendly people would make suggestions or help. (I'm headed to bed just about now but will be probably tooling around on my phone and will respond when I wake up too.)

Thanks!

Hello!

I'm (kinda) new at self-hosting stuff and have been running off an old gaming PC with 8gb RAM and an i5-3570k and a couple 8tb drives in a raid 1 configuration.

A few weeks (months maybe) ago, I bought a Dell PowerEdge R720XD for a decent price and the only thing it didn't come with is drives. I've got another 8tb drive and will be grabbing one more to do Proxmox with ZFS and do a raidz1 configuration for 24tb of usable space.

The big question I have here is what type/size of SSD should I go with? I currently just have an old 120gb SSD that's running Ubuntu with things like Plex, Kavita, Foundry, and whatever else I'm using on it. A buddy was telling me to use "data center SSDs" due to the amount of work hypervisor tools will do. I've also read other posts from Reddit and similar that mention that consumer-grade SSDs should be just fine but then others point out that if they only have 80-100TBW which means they'll fail quicker, but if they're cheaper than data center or enterprise SSDs then it would still be cheaper.

My plan for Proxmox is basically this:

• ZFS Pool with a raidz1 vdev (made of hard drives) with the goal to expand it eventually
• Plex instance (I'll probably point my cache to the vdev via symlinks because one time I had a 50gb cache when setting up Plex so I don't want to do that again)
• Kavita instance
• Linux instance just for dev work and funsies
• Foundry (D&D tool) instance
• I also run some random website stuff but that'll probably be on the Linux instance. None of it is very big
• HomeAssistant

So with that, are there any things I should consider? Is a pair of $30, 480gb Kingston drives more than plenty? Should I go for some mid-range Microns? Do I find something way more expensive and just eat the cost up front instead of over time? I'm just trying to figure out how I should price it out because I want to get this server up and running so I can steal my old desktop back for other dumb reasons.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Side note, if you have a good way to migrate data where I have to get 4.5tb off my 8tb raid1 group, set up ZFS with those same drives, then put the data back on it, let me know. The current plans are to either piecemeal out the data to all the machines on my network, or just get a 6tb external drive.

Got these two servers for free, they are pretty fun and nice to use!

I have 3 proxmox nodes, each with a 500g ssd for boot and another 1tb which I want to use for ceph.

Its recommended to have a separate 10g network for this, which is where the problem starts. Right now i have CRS Mikrotik switch with two sfp+ ports, and i have already ordered two single port connectx-2 cards which I was going to use to have a faster connection between one node containing my NAS, and another which is the one that reads off it the most (plex, etc.).

Now I'm debating changing this. I have 3 options because I dont want to spend too much money on this:

• Don't have a separate network for ceph, and get a third sfp+ card for my third server + a cheap-ish 8 port sfp+ switch from tp-link for 140euros, and connect it to my main Mikrotik switch. Both ceph and the nas communication would happen over one single port/nic.
• Alternatively, I could do the same as above but get another two sfp+ nics (or just 2 dual ports) and have a separate network for ceph, and also have a fast nas connection. This would be the most expensive.
• Cheapest option: there is this 40euro switch on aliexpress which has two sfp+ ports and 4 2.5G rj45 ones. Could I have two nodes use 10g links and one have a 2.5G on the same ceph network? or would that cause problems? This would be a separate network. Servethehome reviewed what is basically that switch and came away positive.

Hello everyone,

I just got a DL380e G8 and I have a small problem: iLO report something wrong with the Embeded SD Card slot.

There is no SD card in the slot inside the server and I'm wondering what is this slot used for ? and can I put any SD Card in it ? is there a size limit ? where can I buy a replacement ?

I can't seem to find the right document on HP's website.

Could you guy help me figure it out and maybe point me to the right direction!

Thank you very much!

Problem description on iLO web interface:

Embedded Flash/SD-CARD : Controller firmware revision 2.10.00 Partition Table Read Error: Could not partition embedded media device

Which is logical since there is no SD Card in there, right ?

I would like the end result to include remote and encrypted backups.

I’m considering maybe a Synology NAS with an APFS partition for Time Machine and a BTRFS partition for Linux backups.

The Linux laptops might backup to the NAS with Restic.

The Synology NAS might then backup to BackBlaze or another cloud using Synology’s Hyper Backup or also Restic.

Have I missed a better plan?