It’s nearing the end of 2022 and it’s time to refresh the homelab again. I recently re-allocated two of the three custom built Supermicro servers previously in the home network cabinet over to a colo cluster, creating a need to...
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UDM-Pro docker container as a Proxmox quorum device
I recently switched the majority of my self-hosted services over to Proxmox running on a custom built 1U supermicro server. It’s been working so well I decided to build a second one, and setup a two node HA cluster to...
Continue reading...Migrating SmartOS instances to SDC
If you haven’t heard by now, Joyent has recently open sourced SmartDataCenter and the Manta object storage platform. Most people probably don’t realize it yet but this is a really big deal. Mad props to everyone at Joyent involved in...
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I am skipping the SmartOS introduction because Magnus Hedemark has us covered with Discovering SmartOS. Instead, I’ll dive straight in and tell you that it’s great as an all-in-one storage and virtualization server, despite only being branded as the latter....
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