I recently learned about a product called a Zimaboard, which to my understanding is like a raspberry pi, and the default OS on the listing says that it comes with CasaOs. Doing a quick search, I found the website and tried their demo, which had a very modern look with many popular apps available and so I got curious as to why this wasn't as popular as other server os.

I want to know if any of you had a go with any of these things and if you have some experiences or opinions regarding it.

It's very modern looking UI gives of "Apple" vibes which makes me trust things less, but that's just my caveman brain acting up, hence the reason I'm asking.

With my Raspberry Pi basically being software/service complete, I'm starting to think more about my router and I need to make sure I'm thinking about this right.

As I envision it, my router would run OpenWRT, Pi-Hole and a VPN. Is that correct or have I got this wrong?

My homelab is still in its infancy as I'm at the start of my self-hosting journey. I'm now down the rabbit hole though and where I can self host, I'd like to.

Not long back, I asked for some advice regarding an IFTTT replacement. I only need a tiny subset of the service, in that I want it to check some RSS feeds and send a notification if it finds one. The people of the fediverse are amazing and I got some great recommendations, however some felt like a great fit but didn't pan out. That left me with less and less.

One of the suggestions though was n8n and as I looked into giving it a whirl, I noticed it needed Traefik to be installed.

Now here's the thing, I haven't sorted out my router yet and since nothing I'm doing is facing the net, I'm kinda just chilling without a proper set up. I'm wondering, if I install Traefik along with n8n, will it break my other services? Will I still be able to install my homebrew router with OpenWRT when I finally sort that out and will it impact the IPTV which I'll sort out when I've sorted out the router?

Hiya folks, I am looking for a wifi extender that can serve as a temporary Ethernet solution for my server.

In short; My housing situation is temporary and while I do have access to WiFi, I do not have access to the router. So I thought I'd buy a WiFi extender that my server can connect to, until I move again (need to stay here 5 months). I thought about trying to bridge my connection from my Desktop PC to the Server, but realised that means I need both of them on at all times. So I'd rather buy an extender which I might be able to use long term.

I have been looking at Ubiquiti equipment, but seem a little expensive for me right now. However, this brand does look tempting to invest into in the future (feel free to suggest other brands, if you recommend any others!). But yeah; for now I think a WiFi Extender could do the job, one that has an Ethernet port ofc.

Edit; I could also invest in a cheap network card for the server ofc, might that be a better solution?

Any suggestions are much appreciated 🌻

I'm thinking about moving my laptop into the virtualization age with the power of vfio. I want to install Debian and then pass though my GPU and peripherals. I will manage my wireless connections though openwrt.

The problem is, the VMs don't have a way of seeing the battery level of the host. This results in a short battery life. Is there is any way of passing though a virtual battery. I see a old issue on virtual manager but it seems dead. Shouldn't this just be a matter of passing though the block device?

I would like to create my own router with OpenWRT and there are an overwhelming amount of hardware options by the likes of nanopi, bananapi, etc. Does this community have any recommendations? :)

Here are my requirements:

• 1.5Gbps support
• I plan to connect a total of 3 access points to it (just using spare routers. One of them can support 1.5G)
• either a port to connect a pihole or another way to set it up
• ideally VLAN support but I can also use a guest network for a few smart devices
• no plans to run a homelab off of this setup, so doesn't need to be fancy
• lower cost is preferred.

The drive works in other devices but when I boot I don't see the device with lspci and there isn't any errors in dmesg.

Is there something I'm missing? Why wouldn't a pcie drive work?

Edit: I sent it back Edit 2: I got a new one and it worked with sata

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So I'm trying to bridge to physical locations together. At one location I control the firewall and at the other I don't. I would normally use Wireguard but its all dynamic IPs so it would break every so often.

My though was to use I2P to create a bridge between the 2 places. I will use 0 hops on each with encrypted lease sets. Am I crazy or is this a good solution.

Update: don't

I am having trouble deciding between Proxmox and TrueNAS scale for a homelab on my Dell OptiPlex. I am worried that I'll be limited by TrueNAS at some point, so why not just make it a VM? Will there be any significant performance loss if I just make a TrueNAS VM within Proxmox and give it all the resources? I have a total of 4x 8TB HDDs. One isn't functioning but I'm pretty sure I can fix it, although I don't trust it now.

Or perhaps Proxmox is unnecessary for my use case? Please let me know what you think! I intend to run the following:

PiHole with Unbound DNS Jellyfin Home Assistant with smart devices on separate VLAN Playing around with webhosting, maybe even a small personal Lemmy server. Miniflux RSS Personal documentation solution such as Logseq

I also have a few spare Raspberry Pis and I'm wondering if they could be made into Proxmox nodes...

I’m looking at replacing my ISPs modem router combo for something a little beefier. Ideally with better signal and the ability to better manage the network.

I live in a small flat but it’s all solid brick walls, so the signal strength drops drastically when going from the living room to the bedroom next door.

Current setup: Huawei 5G CPE 5

I want to make sure that my network share mounts before podman starts jellyfin. Right now I have a simple delay setup to wait to start the podman VM but its a very ugly solution.

Edit: the solution is systemd

I am tired of Reddit reposts

Hi. I have an Eaton 3S 850B UPS which abruptly shuts down my PC. The UPS itself doesn't shut down, and nor does it shut down other devices connected to the mains side panel of the UPS. Only the PC is connected to the battery panel. When this happens, the PC cannot be turned on. Not until I remove the plug from the socket and put it into another socket outlet on the battery panel of the UPS can the PC be turned on. What could be the cause of this?

Apologies if this isn't the correct location to post this. But I figured, this would the likely people to use consumer UPS and would likely help me solve the issue.

Hello ive tried to port forward but it does not seem to want to work. This is what ive put in my router settings:

anyone know what i did wrong? When i check if its been opened on yougetsignal.com it says its not

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I'm gonna virtualize one of these sooner or later to get some networking hands-on experience for myself. While I don't plan to throw my current router in the trash day 1, how (not?) safe is it to switch over to using it as your router in the sense of making sure things like basic firewall protections and whatnot are up? Is it set and forget and you'd have to turn things off/create exceptions to create huge vulnerabilities, like anything else? Or do you have to build it all from the ground up and know what you're doing entirely?

Also, If down the line I wanted to ditch a router entirely, I'd still want wifi. Is that something where I just buy the cheapest router from amazon and have it only serve wifi, or is there some kind of way I can slap a wifi dongle into a usb port somewhere and have it transmit instead of receive?

Also feel free to have an argument about if I should start with pfsense or opnsense. Leaning toward opnsense since things I've read have implied it's a little easier to set up and start with, and they're similar enough I can always hop to the other.

I have a Asus z590-p and want to pair a 1050ti and a rx550 in the x16 slots, the board has no extra board delivery socket lile some high and boards. Will every card be able to pull 75w or is the 75w shared, also is the power delivery with a 11900k enough? The PSU won't be the problem, 1200w titanium. I just want that the GPUs don't choke on power.

Hi All, looking for some help. I’m running VMware ESXI 7 on a Dell PowerEdge r630. I’ve been trying to use this as an NAS to store my movies for Plex but I haven’t been able to see the datastore on my home network. I’m new to this and trying to learn so any advice is appreciated.

So I purchased a rack mount that came with a SATA SSD PCB. I want to get away from using the micro SD card and I heard SSDs compliment the pi well but I’m not sure how to go about doing it, do I just flash the ssd like I would a micro SD? If anyone could please give me some advice on the best way to do this I’d be grateful!

Rough Diagram of WIP: https://i.imgur.com/u3vgUAF.png

I have a small lab setup that I've been working on but I'm a little stumped on how to achieve what I want. I have a machine running Proxmox that I use primarily for running VMs for work training and hosting a Linux Game Server VM. My primary goal is to be able to access my Proxmox host when I'm out of my house, because as much as I love my super silent M1 Macbook, I've hit some snags when I try to use some VMs locally. Secondary goal is to break up my home network some, as everything currently lives in the same space and feels icky, especially with the external game servers.

I originally just set up an VM running opnsense and configured OpenVPN with MFA, but I decided I didn't want to use a VM if I was potentially going to actually use it as a firewall since I don't want homelab stuff bringing down the whole home internet while my wife is watching a show or something. So I picked up a Lenovo m720q for cheap with 16gb of memory and a 256gb NVME, tossed in a quad ethernet nic, and loaded Opnsense on it. Right now my ISP router is set for IP passthrough and handing the public IP to my Asus router, but I'm thinking maybe I should flip this and have the firewall take over the role and just let the Asus just handle wifi.

My networking is rusty at best, and I'm really stumped on the right way to handle some of it, like isolating the game server VM from other VMs and most of the home network. Hopefully the network diagram is easy enough to read, but what should I be doing differently?

Hey guys!

I own a HP Server with a p408i-a. I have connected it to a SAS expander.

8 Slots of the SAS Expander are filled with the front disks in the server. 2 Slots are connected to the RAID-Controller. So far so good, everyhing is working. I want to connect another SAS-Device to my expander - will it work?

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The p408i-a has 8 SAS lanes. Do I need 1 lane per available/used slot on the expander? Or is it just total bandwidth? Somehow I couldn't find any information about that online. Any help? :)

Hello guys. First of all, I'm sorry if sometimes I speak broken English as it is not my first language. I am a 18 year old from Spain and I am currently studding a middle grade in computing and networking (Grado Medio en Sistemas Microinformáticos y Redes, in case another Spaniard is reading) to hopefully become a sysadmin. I have been building a homelab for the past 2 years approximately and this is my current setup. Bare in mind that I have never had a job and all of this was bought with my allowance.

Current homelab under the desk

In the top right we have a HP 260 G2 mini, running a i5-6200U, 8gb ram and a cheapo 120gb sata ssd. This is my main server as it's low power and runs the most critical services. It runs Windows Server 2019 and hosts though Hyper-V a vm with my openvpn instance for remote access, as well as a Ubuntu Server 22.04 vm for general testing. This is the machine I use to manage all of the rest and remote through RDP from class to mess around when in bored in lessons.

The server to its left its the first server i built. Its running an i5 3rd gen (cant remember the specific model rn) 8gb of ram and 4x1tb hdds. This machine is running truenas core and has those 4 drives in a zfs pool running raidz-5. This are second hand hard drives and this redundancy has already saved my ass once. I don't run this server 24/7 due to the electricity prices in Spain right now and I'm not accessing files enough to justify the cost.

The server at the right consist of an i5-4460, 16gb of ram and another cheapo 120 ssd. I run Windows Server 2019 in it and mainly hosts my test vms and heavier workloads the hp cant handle. I again can't run this 24/7 due to the cost it has.

Below all of this is my tp-link gigabit switch. It ain't fancy that's for sure but i got a great deal on it. I would also show you my router but it's in the living room and its just a isp provided s\\\*box. Maybe looking to test build a opensense router just for fun, as i cant convince my parents to change it permanently. For those interested, I have a gigabit fiber internet connection with the spanish isp Digi. If any other homelaber has Digi you know the pain in the ass it is their stupid CG-NAT system. At least I can say its cheap, 20€ a month for gigabit, so cant really complain.

I am currently looking to setup WOL so i can power all of the machines remotely through the hp, that runs 24/7 because of its low power.

Any feedback or ideas for improvement or really any comments are more than welcome.

Sure, I could move it into my room, somehow figure out a way to split the connections with my monitor, keyboard and mouse with my main rig etc but I rather keep the peripherals to a minimum.

Plus, it gives me an extra PC to work with, there's the novelty of working on a PC that's not actually in the same room as you are, an extra PC to work with while your main rig (with Windows 10 in my case) is busy with other things like video editing or other resource intense background applications etc.

I'm sure there's options like trans-coding, Plex and whatnot but for now I want to know just some basics before going that route. It's going to be on a wired CAT 5e connection to a wifi router that's also sharing a direct wired connection with my main rig if that's important to know.

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tl;dr New to homelabs, looking to start simple. How to access and use PC remotely via wired ethernet on LAN via Windows 10 (main rig).

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like idk, I got R620 and wanted to upgrade so I got dual E5-2690 v4 and wanted to get a new one and I have no idea which one shall I go for; Processor will be swapped to the new one.

HPE Proliant DL 360 G9 V4 +Fiber Card 2 Port 10G Free

\- Dual processors / intel Xeon processor E5-2650 V4

\- Ram 32G – ECC – DDR4

\- Raid Controller P440AR 2GB Flash-Backed Write Cache

\- Storage 4\*3T SAS Enterprise Plus ( Total 12T SAS )

\- 4 Port Lan Ethernet 10/100/1000 RJ45

\- Dual power supply

Dell Power Edge R730 XD ( 24\* 2.5 inch SFF )

\- Dual processors processor E5-2620 V3

\- Memory 32GB ECC DDR4

\- Storage 5\*300G SAS

\- Dual Power Supply

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Hello I'm running into an issue when trying to reverse proxy my vaultwarden and overseerr services. My domain is in cloudflare with two A records that are updated to accommodate ddns: requests.mydomain.com & vaultwarden.mydomain.com.

Using nginx with SSL(Let's Encrypt) turned off will work. Using it turned ON will give the errors in my browser:

• Firefox: The page isn’t redirecting properly
• Edge: ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS

When using wheregoes.com to check the redirects. It indeed is redirect looping, but only when SSL is turned on.

When using asus's ddns for one of my services with SSL turned ON everything will work as expected. So I'm thinking there is something wrong with how my cloudflare is configured. In my cloudflare I have:

• No redirect rules on
• SSL/TLS in off mode
• HSTS off

What would be the risk of not having SSL turned on for a homelab with public facing services?

I'll be terminating it into a patch panel/keystones in the rack, but unfortunately I can't put the rack closer to a wall. I'm wondering how to handle the "last mile" as it all concentrates into a bundle hanging from the beams above the rack. Should I be using j-hooks? Service loops? Any input or suggestions appreciated.

Hi all,

I picked up a used C240 M3 recently for a steal and it came with its rails. The inner rails are not mounted to the chassis and it didn't come with any screws. Could anyone point me in the correct direction of the correct size I should be aiming for? I've tried M3 .5 and M4 .7 but neither has worked.

So as a home server, I'm currently running an old refurbished ThinkCentre E73 SFF (upgraded its RAM to 8GB). And while it's mostly fine for my use-case, it has 2 slight drawbacks.

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1. Its size; it's actually quite big for SFF ( ‎13.2 x 4 x 15 inches )
2. Power Efficiency, while not insane, I'd like to possibly save some money (long-term) on electricity. As I'm currently paying €0.42 per kWh.

With the relatively high electricity costs here, and space concerns, I'm looking for something new to use as a home server.

My budget is €180.00. My requirements aren't anything too crazy.

I run the following things:

1. HomeAssistant
2. Flaresolver
3. Uptime Kuma
4. Linkwarden
5. Bunch of random personal scripts (irrelevant as they use < 1% CPU and < 20MB Mem)

I'd like for it to be more power efficient 💚 and would love if it was a bit smaller.

Bonus points if I can easily upgrade storage & memory.

Not sure if this fits here or not.

I want to put together a setup for watching movies in my camper. Ideally I would like to have a raspberry pi or a thin client or something plugged directly into my TV via hdmi, and play movies directly off the machine. What kind of CPU/ram specs are necessary for good local playback directly off the machine? Would something like a WYSE 5060 work?

I just re-upped my VMUG membership to get another year of ESX and vCenter for my home lab. When I went into the catalog to "purchase" another license of vCenter (or ESX, both did the same thing) it said I had exceeded my entitlement and wouldn't let me add it to my cart. Am I missing something? I've been running ESX in my home lab for about 3 years and I REALLY need it to not expire in 15 when it's set to. I'm assuming I just missed something dumb, but I'm worried that with the Broadcom acquisition they'll be trying to squeeze water from rocks and screwing customers in awkward little ways. Thanks for any input on anything I might be missing to get myself back on track!

Hello everyone!

I'm starting to build my homelab and got my hands on two processors: an i5-8500 and an i5-8500T. I always heard that the T series of processors had no difference in idle power draw to their non-T counterparts so I decided to put it to the test now that I have the oportunity.

I tested both processors with the same exact system: Fujitsu D538/E85+ case/mobo/psu 32GB(2x16GB) DDR4 2666MHz 500GB Crucial P1 NVMe SSD 1TB Toshiba consumer hard drive IOCrest 2.5GbE NIC Running Proxmox VE without any VMs running.

Of course this is not science by any means but I liked testing it and will be useful to determine which one I'll keep/seek to buy in the future. The measurements were made on an Aubess Zigbee 20A EU Smart Plug.

Here you have the results:

i5-8500

i5-8500T

Zoomed out-graph

As you can see, the minimum wattage draw was the same at 13W, but the mean was slightly lower for the T series processor. The mean power draw fluctuated a lot more for the i5-8500, at around 14.5W to 16.5W, against the 14W to 15W for the i5-8500T. If you want to be very precise to see which is going to be better for you, you should probably account the faster clock speeds of the i5-8500, which would allow it to run at idle for longer, but that really depends on your use case.

Again, this is not science but I think what I found in the tests was pretty cool and wanted to share it.

Have a good one!

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I have a Dell R630 with Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 .

I have Proxmox installed and I have installed 4 ESXi hosts. Now, when I create a cluster I have an error vCLS can't start - No host compatible and it mentions MWAIT is set to 0 but expected to be 1.

Is there a flag I can use in Proxmox to pass it to the ESXi?

It is enabled in the Dell BIOS. I have been trying to fix this for the past week and I just can't figure it out

Hello,

Does anybody happen to know of a portable KVM that is in a laptop style form factor? As in a clamshell design, where you flip up the monitor and it has a keyboard, just like a laptop, except it has no real functionality to it.

Instead, it allows you to plug in a server's monitor output/HDMI/USB (for keyboard/mouse), and since the device has it's own built-in battery, you're good to go.

Basically it would be like a laptop (monitor/keyboard) except it's just a dumb display w/keyboard and touchpad.

Any idea if these exist? If so, could you tell me of some? I've tried searching everywhere including Amazon but I couldn't find it and I think I'm searching for possible the wrong keywords.

Thanks!