Basic stuff and where to start Building.
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.
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,
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We have a 256G NVMe or SSD and want to use this disk for more than a boot disk. We can also use it for a ZFS pool for for VM's using replication and High Availability.
Basics
How to automate creation of templates and VM's in Proxmox. This script builds templates to be the base for VM's in k8s or anything else in your cluster. You can easily choose from the menu what to do like auto install qemu-guest-agent. Or by editing and commenting or de-commenting lines.
Basics
Networking is key to success in home-labbing and Proxmox has it all switches and bridges in many forms. This is some of them. What are the networks needed with Proxmox.
Basics
New interesting features in Firefox: Colorway and a new way to open recently closed pages. #firefox #colorway Tab pickup - Open pages from other devices. Recently closed - Reopen pages you’ve closed in this window and.
Networking
Networking is the main thing in homelabbing to get right. The main focus is on VLAN tagging and LAG setup. This is a quick guid on on eway to do it. #VLAN
Build
Without DNS nothing works. On any corporate network you will find several DNS server, several NTP servers and a lot of Firewalls. – Shouldn't the lab also have multiples of the core services, just in case.
Proxmox
Q - Can I run Docker Containers on Proxmox? A - Yes and no. Running #docker in #proxmox is a good way of controlling the total setup. There is 2 ways to do this, use a CT or a VM. I will try to explain the main points
Basics
You usually need to add external data to your VM's or #Proxmox It's best practices to keep VM's small and use external storage for data. iSCSI or NFS. Even SMB can be used. #SMB #CIFS #iSCSI #NFS
Build
We need stuff from our NAS and/or other storage devices to run our services. We can mount #nfs #smb #cifs by #fstab #sshfs #mount.