Since 1975, a HomeLab enthusiast. In IT 1970 →, 25y for Fortune 500 companies, rest as independent entrepreneur and senior consultant, IT and Management. Happily retired from IT 2011 and totally 2020.
Networking
Monitoring servers and VM's is extremely important and highly productive. In real environments you constantly tweak and change setting for optimal performance and also you need to have a early warning system in place to be able to react on upcoming issues. #Zabbix #pfSense #Proxmox #Docker
Security
You need to generate complex passwords. Using strings as complicated as possible and 20-30-40 long is good. #password #generator #passwordgenerator
Security
How to setup VLAN's on a Proxmox system. Vlans gives security, speed and a cleaner network. VLAN's has been the standard in corporate networking for years and can be found almost everywhere you look. Also the management i/f #MGMT #VLAN
Basics
Add Color to Proxmox Logon Do you want to rice the logon screen of Proxmox? The idea is to show clearly the login as IP and FQDN and also all the colors and positions of the patch cables - this is not in stead of tagging cables its on top. #color #login #proxmox
Basics
Setup ZFS replication and High Availability in Proxmox VE. An entry-level approach. No NFS or Ceph shared storage will be used.
Proxmox
Every system and every device needs backups! Proxmox Backup Server is a stunning Backup Server (later PBS). It's highly recommended and a great tool for automation of critical backups. The PBS makes use of the power of ZFS. You can also backup the Proxmox nodes.
Build
The terminal is where I spend most of my day. My main tools are alacritty, iTerm2, zsh, tmux and then neovim. They are riced and have a number of plugins.
Networking
Set up basic services on Proxmox and its VM/CT like personal Add-ons, NTP Chrony, E-mail alerts, Firewall settings, Networking, Users and Pools, Templates Docker, Backup Strategy and DOCUMENTATION.
Build
How to make a HP 410i into a HBA. ZFS loves HBA but HP is shy on the older devices. We will us a hack to get access to all settings in the raid card. I run a HP DL360 Gen 6 with Proxmox as my second NAS and for VM's needing many cores and fast storage, this is how I did it. #HBA #410 #HP
Proxmox
For running ZFS on RAID controllers we need the HBA or IT mode and a separate boot device, you can't boot from a HBA device.
Networking
NetBox is a fantastic tool for documentation, IPAM and DCIM systems. Can give you IPAM for SDN setups.
Basics
Domain Name Servers DNS are the cornerstone in networking. Usually you have several running in each network - just in case. Proxmox clusters can run a name server on each node and the hidden primary in HA. BIND 9 is an open source DNS software system including an authoritative server,