Tag: homelab
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SAN Switch
The Storage Area Network switch, in this case, is a Zyxel GS1200-8 it currently sells on Amazon for $35.00. With the class of hardware we are using, there is no reason to look at the expense of 10G gear. The GS1200-8 has two things useful as a SAN switch. The first one, which is…
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Storage Server
The storage server was originally going to be based on FreeNAS. However, it turned out that the minimum requirements have grown quite a bit over the years, and it’s become much more than just a NAS device. Since many of the features it provides are going to be unused in a simple lab setup like…
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Using USB ethernets in this project
I know every system and network purist is going to say “WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING!”. Even I was asking myself that question. It started as just an easy simple way to attach the storage server to the management network. Then the coronavirus shows up and most retail and not a few…
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updates on this project
Unfortunately, the COVID shelter in place order has kind of thrown a few wrenches into this project. The group that I was buying my used gear from had to close their doors for an undetermined period. The group that I was working with is https://www.freeitathens.org/. They are a great group of people doing a good…
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Reason for this blog
I’ve been working for several years with containers and Kubernetes, and I’ve been working with hypervisors/virtual machines for at least a decade. Most commercial production work has been implemented in the Google Cloud, Digital Ocean, AWS, and friends. However, in the interest of saving on the commercial cloud costs(I was working for a startup), …