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If It's a Hack and It Works, Is It Really a Hack?
I have a couple servers at home — one running Proxmox VE and one running Proxmox Backup. I use the VM server when I need to spin up a development environment, for running the odd game server, serving files locally, running Home Assistant, etc. I also like to donate spare cycles to Folding@Home. The backup server of course is in case I do something stupid on the VM server.
There's just one problem with that. My second-hand 8-year-old dual-Xeon server runs hot.
It was too much to keep running in my home office. Between the two servers, my desktop, and my work laptop, I was regularly seeing ambient temperatures around 26°C. It was just too warm for comfort.
Last summer I moved my network gear and the two servers into the front coat closet. This was great for me working in my home office, but not so great for my servers. Despite adding a passthrough vent to the closet door and a vent fan to the ceiling, the closet was still consistently in the 26°-30°C range.
The ideal solution would probably be to use an enclosed server rack and run an exhaust vent up from the top. Unfortunately, rack-mount server cases are expensive, enclosed racks are very expensive, and my closet is too small for that anyway.
So I hacked together a solution.
I built a frame out of some cheap 1x2 lumber and wrapped a piece of thin sheet steel around the sides to make a crude plenum. On top, I added a 10x6 register box with a semirigid vent hose coming out of it. This gives me a guide for drawing air out of the servers and guiding it up to the vent fan in the ceiling.
To help things along, I added a 120mm fan inside the register box. But not some whisper-quiet Noctua. This is (if the Amazon listing is to be believed) a 5000 RPM, 210 CFM monster of a fan. It's loud, but moves a lot of air.
Too loud in fact. Its droning could not be silenced by any mere closet door. I had to add a PWM fan speed controller to calm it down. It's a cheap unit from Amazon, but it came with a temperature probe and it has a configurable operating range.
The result? Where previously the entire closet was consistently above 26°C, now it's staying around 23°. There is a difference of 5°C between ambient in the closet and the air inside the exhaust duct, so it is doing its job of redirecting the hot air from the servers.
I call that a successful hack.
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Proxmox 8.2 New Features and Download
Proxmox 8.2 New Features and Download #proxmox #proxmox82 #proxmox82newfeatures #downloadproxmox #proxmox82download #virtualization #vhtforums #opensourcevirtualization #kvmvirtualization #virtualmachines #lxccontainers #selfhosted #selfhosting
Proxmox has a lot of momentum behind it as of recently. We had the recent news of the new Proxmox import wizard to import VMware ESXi guests in Proxmox virtual environment. Also, Proxmox 8.1 wasn’t released that long ago. However, Proxmox has now released Proxmox 8.2 new features and you can now download the ISO for installation. Let’s take a look at the new features contained in this…
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Falaremos sobre a jornada Proxmox!
Com certeza o mais completo curso de Proxmox da internet totalmente grátis.
Aprenderemos que com pouco investimento e zero custo de licenciamento podemos oferecer 99,99% de disponibilidade em uma infraestrutura.
Essa é uma Jornada que mostrará passo a passo como surpreender seus clientes, podendo assim se destacar no mercado e claro, garantir a disponibilidade de sua infraestrutura de ti.
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Spent the past couple weekends getting some homelab stuff done.
Got 10Gbe SPF+ working between my hypervisor box and NAS
Modded my JONSBO N2 to run almost silently
Set up iSCSI from NAS to Proxmox
Procrastinated on studying for the Security+
Panicked about said procrastination (ongoing)
But hey, at least I can show off my neat homelab thingies.
#please send study tips#i take this exam in two days#and my job is paying for it so i have to pass#homelab#transgender#nas#proxmox#truenas#iscsi
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Let's Install Proxmox 8.0!
It's been a while since I've updated my tutorial videos, so today, let's install Proxmox 8.0! This is a beginner's guide to the installation, with step-by-step instructions for installing Proxmox, setting up your first Virtual Machine, and important information on Networking, CPU, and Virtualization concepts. Even Virtualization vets should get something useful out of this video.
But first... What am I drinking???
In honor of the 666th video published to Craft Computing, I cracked open 'All That I have Learned' from Adroit Theory... a 16.66% Russian Imperial Stout aged in Maple Bourbon Barrels. This was the correct, and in so many ways the WRONG beer to open while filming a tutorial.
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Migrating Shinobi NVR to a new device
So this was needed out of desperation - I inadvertently overspecced Shinobi’s container and resources when I built it initially - can’t quite remember why, but I did.
In any case, this meant that:
Local backups would fail (too large disk size), and the container would lock, leaving me without an NVR
Remote backups would fail because the disk was too large and the job would timeout
So I used the link below as a guide to create a new container, which resolved all of my issues.
To avoid issues (and having to copy the video files), I simply disabled the monitors, deleted all of the locally recorded files, and then completed the migration as per the guide. Super easy, and kept all of my configs also.
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Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) Upgrade: Eine Aktualisierung von 2.4 auf 3.0 durchführen
Vor wenigen Tagen, am 28. Juni 2023, ist die Version 3.0 vom Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) veröffentlicht worden. In dieser Anleitung zeige ich euch, wie sich der Server auf die neue Version upgraden lässt. Ein Tutorial darüber, wie ihr in wenigen Schritten einen Server mit Proxmox-VE...[Weiterlesen]
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proxmox CT is locked migrate
When I migrate a Proxmox CT (LXC Container) from one node to another node in my homelab clusster, for some reason the migration could not be completed. It keeps giving me error (TASK ERROR: CT is locked (migrate)). I could not start/stop or do anything with that CT, even after I restarted the node.
I ran the “qm unlock” command (qm manages the qemu VMs) on my pve3 node but I got .conf file does…
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Proxmox Replication Configuration Beginners Guide
Proxmox Replication Configuration Beginners Guide - Learn how to configure Proxmox replication step-by-step #proxmoxveserver #proxmox #proxmoxreplication #replication #disasterrecovery #321backuprule #homeserver #homelab #virtualization
Proxmox has some really great disaster recovery tools built into the solution, without any add-ons needed or licensing. For instance, it includes a replication feature that allows you to replicate VMs stored on local ZFS storage, to another target node, without shared storage. Let’s look at Proxmox replication and see what it is and how it is configured.
Table of contentsWhat is Proxmox…
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Install MacOS Ventura on Proxmox 8.x
This is a guide on how to configure and install MacOS Ventura on Promox 8.x.x. (This was tested in my lab which runs Proxmox 8.0.3 and 8.0.4. It should work for other versions as well)
Requirements:
Proxmox 8.x.x
Opencore ISO [ Link: https://github.com/thenickdude/KVM-Opencore/releases . https://github.com/thenickdude/KVM-Opencore/releases/tag/v20%5D
MacOS Ventura ISO (You can get this from…
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