As for me I block all slavic IP's.

Post even more racks

>put together a rack
>make sure all networking equipment and connections are 10gig capable
>only ISP in the area maxes out at 30mbps
some day

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>>101155492
Redpill me on IPMI

>>101155850
It's remote management for your server that you access from a different ethernet port. Like remote power cycling and KVM stuff.

>>101155188
>what does /hsg/ think of guix as a server os?
I went down that road and it wasn't very fun. The hardware support is GARBAGE and I was running into weird issues that were impossible to google because the community was so small.

>>101156092
Oh and iterating on configs takes forever because it's so fucking slow

reminder that using consumer or ex-business desktop gear for a server is completely valid

>>101155850
Handy for remote low level stuff such as bios and firmware upgrades. Otherwise you can just connect your machine to a monitor every once in a while if you need to see what you're doing. Supermicros require a java app to access IPMI for *9 series boards and less. I think it wasn't until *10 series boards that they switched to HTML5.

what services do you guys run on your home network?

>>101155492
>have side-by-side UPSs
>Power goes out
>shutdown desktop and turn off UPS
>kill the wrong UPS and sudden power loss to server
>SMB shares have been read-only on Windows and unable to connect on Android ever since
Any idea how to fix this?

>>101155742
at least you can backup & move stuff around quick, that's nice

>>101154842
nice
specs?

>>101156205
File sharing and media hosting
Havent personally found much use out of some of the more technical stuff for home use

what's the best way to setup a printer over a network?

>>101156238
owari da...

>>101155742
get on my level
>40Gbps IB home network
>5Mpbs down/1Mbps up ADSL link

I love you, home server general anons.

>>101156807
>specs
2x Xeon E5-2620 v2
32GB DDR3 Registered
3 12tb drives- to be arranged in a 3-way mirror
1 240gb boot ssd
Motherboard came with an integrated raid controller but I will be using AHCI for zfs

Idk if this is the right place to ask but, does anyone know what privacymeasures backblaze has? I have sensitive business data on my server that needs to be inaccessible to outsiders legally.
I cant find anything on their website

>>101157766
This really depends, if you just want to tick boxes for audit then backblaze can help you do that with their various compliance
https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/compliance
and support for encryption at rest (you need to turn this on)
If you really want to protect the data (and assuming it's backups?) then you want to encrypt it before it leaves your network using something like restic

>>101157330
we wove you too

>>101157808
Thanks anon, looks like they have exactly what I need!

is vikunja any good?

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>>101145033
>gutted second PSU, P440 storage controller, storage battery, GPU, 2nd RAM stick, DVD drive, front backplane
>flashed iLO 4 v2.77 patched with fan control, set fans to 9%
>39W idle
not bad, it will do for a PC.
Still pulls in idle almost what my R330 pulls with disks and services running though. It's a HPE ML110 Gen9 is anyone is wondering.
Thanks for reading my blog.

i need a CA...

>>101159341
Why? You would've maybe done better if you replaced that ConnectX-3 with a Connect-X4.

>>101159341
you tried the powertop meme?

>>101159636
nah he tried powerbottom

>>101157257
Pfft. I just dropped $1k on 100Gig IB networking. Cya nerd

Upgraded my 15 year old nas box, a little netgear readynas duo. Copying all the data off it to my new one, everything is gigabit connected but average transfer rate is 10MB/s. It's only a TB but this is gonna take a while. I guess because a lot of it is tiny little files.

>>101160201
Ah it's jumped a bit while copying some larger video files. Still only 30MB/s. Still, it's done it job admirably all these years so I'm not complaining.

im going through a Introduction to the Internet: Architecture and Protocols so I understand how my local homeserver works

>>101155492
To the anon last thread >>101153411 that linked to noted.lol are you using lidarr-on-steroids? That and deemix like they have less staying power than lidarr. Can you get the same effect using regular lidarr? Whoch parts are essential? I'll try setting this up soon to see for myself but hoping you could share some first hand experience.

>>101159623
i haven't even put ConnectX-3 yet into ML110, 39W idle is without anything extra attached. But ConnectX-3 is not really power hungry.
>>101159636
i did, no change since i was already hitting the lowest C-states.
>>101160087
i kneel

>>101160460
That anon here, it was quite a while ago, I set up the full stack once but resorted to just use deemix because I had some problems with lidarr that I can't honestly recall, it was something with the artists' naming. So I used deemix to just download the music and then access it through NFS from my workstation.
Sorry I can't give you more insight anon. I'll get back to it eventually though.

>>101160460
i'm nta but i use navidrome and lidarr too, I'm not an audiophile and don't care about lossless so I don't know the pitfalls for that use case but it works well for me.

>>101160526
What is your music source typically? A public/private tracker? Usenet? An integration with something like deezer or spotify?

>>101160506
No worries anon thanks for the info so far. So your stack is deezer premium + deemix + navidrome with no lidarr middleman? That automates fine?

>>101160464
>i kneel
Not yet king. I still have to figure out how to install an OS on the switch.

>>101160626
I just use a bunch of public trackers

>>101160626
>no lidarr middleman? That automates fine?
That is correct. Although I usually use native Linux audio players for playback, but Navidrome should be fine as well.
The beauty is that you can use any frontend you want for playback

>got a few 13th gen servers
>go to idrac
>update them from downloads.dell.com
>have to do this process multiple times per server
Why won't it just fucking do them all at once?

should i pull the trigger and make my workstation an auxiliary proxmox node in my infra?

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>>101161194
do it

Does anyone have any experience with the official opnsense appliances from deciso?
I know I can buy chinkshit routers for way less money, but I don't trust their reliability

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What's the best price/CPU performance minipc for server use? Purely on that metric.

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Any of you clowns watching the newegg business am5 mobo seminar? Shit's finna be ill.

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>>101162160
>Don't trust
Build one yourself

>>101156181
Just don’t be a stupid dipshit like me and buy one of the supermicro server boards that doesn’t have ipmi. Was a *12 series board for under $100 used with a heat sink though so I’m not too broken up about it

why is DDR4 not getting cheaper

>>101160629
good luck, i guess it's an area where there's less upstream Linux/BSD support and it's mostly proprietary OS's?
Even HCAs don't have great support in upstream Linux, stuff like GPUDirect require Mellanox OFED stack to work.

>>101164196
Memory industry is totalled swamp ATM

>>101162927
wut

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>>101164909
>he doesn't know

>added a few servers to rack
>15 amp breaker starting to trip
Should I upgrade to 240v or get a second circuit installed?

>>101165338
what do you use so many servers for?

>>101165338
move the UK, our kettles use more power than your rack

>>101165369
Prod & staging environments for my business, plus some personal servers for fucking around. But it's not just servers, I have a 12k BTU window AC unit, 3 workstations, monitors, all my networking equipment, and a sound system on this circuit

Do any of you have experience with running object storage on a home server?

>>101165539
I love my guns too much

>>101165902
that's fair, i wouldn't mind a bit more freedom. You guys haven't progressed to jailing people for writing mean tweets yet either.

>>101165609
you mean like s3? minio etc?

>>101166101
Yeah. Minio, Ceph, Seaweedfs, Apache Ozone, etc.

>>101166129
I run ceph on kubernetes with rook although I don't use the object storage directly.

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I have decided to buy a 12TB seagate enterprise HDD.

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>>101165542
>I have a 12k BTU window AC unit
in europe we laugh at people who only have 18k BTU
btw do you have wiring like pic related?

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>>101166262

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Reposting this from another thread
The RK3588 now has all the needed drivers and shit merged into the kernal (video drivers soon™ like probably the next kernal release or the following one at the latest)
You can buy a NanoPi R6S with a case and power supply for $140, it has 2 2.5ghz Ethernet ports + a 1ghz ethernet port, it runs on the rockchip 3588 octa core arm processor with 8gb of ram base spec. It even has a three or five TOPs NPU on the soc.
There is an official openwrt build available.
https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=69&product_id=289
Grab one of these bad boys, a $60 chink 2.5G switch, the WAP of your choice and you are sitting pretty for about $300-$400 all on
Might make a nice little firewall for those who insist they need more for their router and switches and shit.

>The RK3588 now has all the needed drivers and shit merged into the kernal (video drivers soon™
LMAO fellow retard , you're about to learn how shit the arm ecosystem is . I own a RK3588 device that I want to install a proper OS onto but I've been waiting over a year for drivers and I don't expect them to happen anytime soon since the chinks don't give a fuck about upstreaming their licence invested drivers with probably with stollen/illegal code to the kernel

>>101166602
But it's in except for video stuff and the ashi linux xir is getting paid by collabora to get that finished right now.
https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-3588/notes-for-rockchip-3588/-/blob/main/mainline-status.md

>>101166129
wondered the same a couple of days ago
"garage" s3 (deuxfleur) also belong on that list

>>101166602
So yeah it won't run desktop linux today but you should be able to install arch and tty into it and do whatever you want.
Here is the progress report on video stuff, initial support patches have been submitted and should land soon, they are even working on a Vulcan driver for mali GPUs
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/release-the-panthor.html

>>101166666
Fuck I didn't realise the Vulkan tranny was on the case . Great news and no worries then

>>101166757
The device I have is a anbernic handheld so Vulcan is the most important piece

>>101166602
it's miles ahead of other armshit boards, you can run a clean upstream kernel on it (running Gentoo on my RockPro64 was straightforward).
However, there's still lots of issues, i wouldn't run anything serious on it.

>>101166781
Yeah ive been watching this eagerly for a while an im excited things are finally coming together.
Just having offical openwrt builds is probably enough for me.

>>101166262
>in europe we laugh at people who only have 18k BTU
That's in addition to my central AC. I have 2 window units to cool the rooms I occupy 95% of the time(my bedroom and office), and 12k BTU is more than enough for them.
>pic related
What in the fuck

My r730xd has 8 sticks of RAM in all the white slots. I purchased 6 more identical sticks. Which slots do I put them in? The manual is confusing.

>>101167322
So I put them in the black slots in sequential order, 3 for each CPU, but the system is complaining that they're out of order... the fuck? It's complaining about A6 and B7 but they're seated correctly.

Do any of you use a search engine on your file server? E.g., Apache Solr, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, etc

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>>101155492
damn bros, this a good deal? The last HGST hdds of its kind.
https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/comments/1dpe9ak/hdd_hgst_ultrastar_dc_hc520_huh721212ale601_12tb/

>>101169709
If 12tb drives are what you want then yes

>>101169726
im temped, I wonder how loud its going to run inside my case compared to say a 4tb drive

>>101169709
>SATA
>enterprise
lol

>>101155492
Do any of you self-host websites? Or is opening my home network to the internet more trouble than it’s worth?

>>101170025
whats wrong with enterprise sata, is sas a better storage controller wtfffffff

>>101169709
just bought a couple of these too

>>101167322
You need to install 12 (unbalanced configuration) or 16 (balanced configuration) DIMMs for 2 DPC. 14 DIMMs is not divisible by 1, 2, 3, or 4.
Each processor has up to four memory channels, for two processors that's 8 DIMMs total.
>When mixing memory modules with different capacities, populate the sockets with memory modules with highest capacity first. For example, if you want to mix 4 GB and 8 GB memory modules, populate 8 GB memory modules in the sockets with white release tabs and 4 GB memory modules in the sockets with black release tabs.
>Populate all the sockets with white release tabs first, followed by the black release tabs, and then the green release tabs.
>In a dual-processor configuration, the memory configuration for each processor should be identical. For example, if you populate socket A1 for processor 1, then populate socket B1 for processor 2, and so on.
>Populate four memory modules per processor (one DIMM per channel) at a time to maximize performance.

>>101167322
What are you doing with 448+ GB of RAM?

>>101165338
Colocate?

>>101170094
>opening my home network to the internet
i don't like doing that either, so I use cloudflare tunnel for exposing my home-hosted stuff
it's free and works great; basically like a ssh reverse-tunnel

Today I learned Intel SFP/SFP+/SFP28 NICs are not vSAN certified, due to lack of RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet) support. It's going to be Mellanox ConnectX-4 or later for me.

>>101170376
can't you just use piVPN or some other wireguardbased tunnel?

>>101170504
sure, you could use a paid VPN that provides a static IP and port-forwarding; the specific tunnel protocol doesn't really matter
but if you're gonna pay for a static IP, might as well get a server

>>101170520
pivpn isn't paid it's a wireguard/openvpn script and requires less hassle than cloudflare

>>101170530
pivpn is for setting up a VPN server on your home network. it requires exposing a port on your home WAN interface.
so, if you're not at home, you can connect to your home and it's like on your LAN. it doesn't obfuscate your home IP, quite the opposite, it allows you to use your home IP from anywhere.

the way cloudflared works is that your local device connects out to cloudflare, and cloudflare exposes ports on its infrastructure, so someone connecting to your service connects to a cloudflare IP. throughout the whole process, no ports are ever opened on your home WAN interface.

>>101170550
oh I misunderstood, yes for exposure to third parties that option is indeed better

>>101161138
Are you looking for Dell OpenManage Enterprise?

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I have absolutely no need to own one of these, but i want one

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I am thinking about buying those m.2 10g LAN card for my mini pc, but I won't able to screw it because its long,will I break something if I just let it rest on the slot or tape it down ?

>>101155742
>get u7 pro, china unmanaged switch with 2.5g/sfp+ and connectx3 card for server
>50/15 connection that's attached to switch via powerline
>>101155850
if you want to run bare metal its handy. if you have proxmox its pretty much useless.

>>101170094
I have plex exposed. Plex is pretty well secured and they've never had a breach (that famous one was someone using a 3 year out-of-date build, which is just retarded)

>>101170413
I made a mistake by generalizing too much, and want to clarify.
>Intel / Mellanox 1 GbE anything don't support RDMA / RoCEv2
>Intel X520 (SFP+) doesn't support RDMA / RoCEv2
>Intel X710 (SFP+) doesn't support RDMA / RoCEv2
>Intel XXV710 (SFP28) doesn't support RDMA / RoCEv2
>Intel E810 (SFP28 / QSFP28) supports RDMA / RoCEv2
>Mellanox ConnectX-3 (SFP28) doesn't support RDMA / RoCEv2
>Mellanox ConnectX-4 (SFP28) and later supports RDMA / RoCEv2
Source:
https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=rdmanic&details=1&vsan_type=rdmanic&rdmanic_partner=46,55&page=1&display_interval=10&sortColumn=Partner&sortOrder=Asc

From the perspective of Dell PowerEdge server generations:
>Mellanox Connect-X4 is supported on 13G & 14G
>Intel E810 is supported on 14G, 15G & 16G
Sources:
https://www.dell.com/en-hk/shop/mellanox-connectx-4-lx-dual-port-25gbe-sfp28-network-adapter-customer-install/apd/406-bblf/wifi-and-networking
https://www.dell.com/en-hk/shop/intel-e810-quad-port-10-25gbe-sfp28-adapter-pcie-full-height/apd/540-bddq/wifi-and-networking
https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/intel-e810-dual-port-100gbe-qsfp28-adapter-pcie-low-profile-100gbe-max-bandwidth/apd/540-bdds/wifi-and-networking

Thus, the answer is still a Mellanox ConnectX-4 for R730 owners, or either Mellanox or Intel NICs for R740 or later server owners (preference for Mellanox due to four letter vendor named after a large self-illuminated object in space and natural movement of air).

>>101172487
I also omitted Intel NICs with 10 GbE copper from this list, but they also don't support RDMA / RoCEv2 or are not certified for vSAN. (Nevermind it's not relevant anyway, because the costs of expanding copper to 100 meters and higher power consumption for 10 GbE over copper is cost prohibitive versus fiber.)

>>101172487
>four letter vendor named after a large self-illuminated object in space and natural movement of air
eight letter*

>>101172487
afaik ConnectX-3 only supports RoCEv1, but ConnectX-3 Pro has RoCEv2 support (different silicon), might be cheaper than ConnectX-4

>>101170094
Depends on what you're hosting. If it's a relatively secure application that isn't very outdated, you're fine. If it's wordpress with a bunch of third party themes and plugins, you better isolate and backup that shit because it WILL get hacked.

i want to host a webserver on an old pc i own, but i don't want the IP to be my own home IP. what can i do to prevent this from happening.

>>101172680
>ConnectX-3
But it's not in vSAN compatibility guide, so it's usefulness is limited.

>>101172680
Last I checked, ConnectX-3 (not ConnectX-3 Pro) and ConnectX-4 costs the same on eBay. Only ConnectX-5 and later were more expensive.

>>101170215
It's not enterprise

>>101170261
>2 DPC
Isn't that just fornideal performance? As long as the CPUs have identical memory configurations it should work right?
>14 DIMMs is not divisible by 1, 2, 3, or 4
Huh? 14 is divisible by 1 and 2 lol.
Anyways I just wanted to test the RAM in advance for a new machine I got, and the hardware diagnostic let me do that.
>>101170280
I have a few TB of RAM in my homelab lol

>>101173201
rent the cheapest VPS you can get with enough bandwidth, create a Wireguard VPN with your VPS and home PC in it, route the incoming traffic to your PC.
It will work even if your home IP is behind NAT.
>>101173456
better to stay with compatible hardware then, i have no experience with vSAN
>>101173465
sure, where i live X-3 and X-3 Pro cost the same, but X-4 is 2-3x more expensive.

>>101173553
You can't have 3.5 memory channels populated per processor. Two processors, that's 7 memory channels. 2 DPC, that's 14.

>>101170607
What I meant is that I have to run the upgrade multiple times as it doesn't apply all the updates at once. Also it kept failing for some of the firmware, turns out I have to keep the server off to upgrade the networking and SAS controller firmware.

>>101173720
I had the same issue with Dell NIC firmware some weeks ago in /hsg/. You're not the only one, I suppose.

>>101167006
>>pic related
It's knob & tube wiring, an old style of wiring houses from about the 1900s
>t.lives in an old house with residual K&T

How hard is setting up LUKS with ZFS, I need some cold storage and I'd prefer encryption just in case?

And why LUKS? Because I'd rather eat gastation sushi than use ZFS native encryption.

>>101174221
I haven't used ZFS but it should be pretty easy just like any other filesystem. Whatever you would put your filesystem on you instead use cryptsetup, that leaves you with a new device-mapper device which you put your ZFS filesystem on

>>101174221
should be easy, i'd just look into github for any possible issues, i remember this one specifically: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/15533
Native encryption has it's issues too, they're basically duplicating code from openssl for encryption, but didn't bother to port all the code, for example AES-NI extensions are not ported to ARM (you wouldn't want to run ZFS on ARM anyway, there are other much bigger issues with it).
Also it doesn't seem to get much development, ZFS is mainly used without encryption by enterprises i believe, and that's what drives the development.
I wish ZFS didn't try to reinvent encryption, mounting and sharing by itself.

>>101174288
Yeah, shouldn't be that hard.

>>101174415
...or then it might be. Wish there was some "stabe" ZFS with only basic features, the current devs push all unecessary shit (VDEV expansion) and somehow manage to fuck up everything. Or even get a real devs who know their shit.

Do I really have to go with Solaris ZFS, rumor goes it actually has a working encryption.

>>101174480
ah sorry i assumed ZFS was a stable filesystem by now. Years since i last looked at it.

>>101174531
Garbage in (loads of features, shitty devs), garbage out (current OpenZFS)

If I want something that just works, how are the TrueNAS mini compared to Synology and QNAP?

>>101167322
>>101167724
>3 for each cpu
christ anon, get the other two sticks. No idea how many channels your board runs at but you're ruining the dual channel.
Use 16 sticks or 12

>>101174221
I think the generality of it is:
>create LUKS encryption on the target device
>unlock the LUKS
>create the zpool using the new opened device
Most OS wikis should have a walkthrough, so go check for your own.

>>101174415
I don't know the origin story under bsd, but zfs wanted to put all tools together for what it does instead of rely on numerous separate commands. That's why it's also at odds with the way most linux things are expected to be arranged.
>ZFS is mainly used without encryption by enterprises
Kinda leads me to believe that's why ssds started getting onboard encryption instead of making the OS deal with it.

>>101174531
There are retards that INSIST on being able to grow their storage needs to a completely different redundancy level. The block copy bug from last year was also due to retards constantly needing to develop too.
Honestly, feature creep has become a unix spotlight recently, especially with giants full of worthless money collectors like Microsoft trying to butt in.

Not sure where to ask since I don't see a dedicated hoarding thread, but does anyone know if it's still possible to download a complete ZIM of English Wikipedia from 2016/2015/2012 somewhere? I'd like to create a remote server in my home that just sits around as a mobile library for Wikipedia from different years along with books and other websites.

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>>101174480
>Wish there was some "stabe" ZFS
Uh

>>101174774
>self-encrypted hard drives
Fuck, completely forgot these existed, does that shit work and is it practical to use?

>>101174800
Uh oh.
https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues

>>101174904
>does that shit work and is it practical to use
garbage, manufacturer dependent, totally black box and researches have shown many of them to be trivially bypassed

>>101174904
>https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues
And how many of those are for the 2.1 branch, mein neger?

>>101174904
My only encounter with it is via nvme-cli, which is obtuse to use for a layman. I'm pretty certain my u.2 disk is barfing pointless errors because I set the power mode flag incorrectly.

I wouldn't know how it even unlocks itself. Seemed kinda dumb to store the encryption engine on the disk because wouldn't it unlock itself automagically when powered on?

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Threw in a Topton n305 into a build for my server, and it came with a cooler. It performs great, but upon closer inspection I have to wonder if this is a cause for concern. The CPU cooler is making a bit of contact with capacitors below it, I think. It's hard to tell for sure.

>>101174796
>>101175576

Sorry if this is a noob question. I'm building my homelab and just got a poweredge 720XD with two 1100w PSUs thing is I didn't come with a power cable. What power cable should I be looking to get? I'm pretty sure just any run-of-the-mill PSU cable will either not work or be a fire hazard

>>101175009
LTS or stable means "a bit less buggy" in ZFS. Making a file system, LVM and software RAID shouldn't be that hard.

>>101175005
>>101175037
Yeah, I did a bit of research and not gonna risk it with SED, guess a LUKS encrypted ZVOL could also work.

Today my autism of separating my services in Virtual Machines instead of just running Docker containers proved to be the correct one.
>Have bunch of automated scripts do backups and other shit on VM1
>Decide to build COSMIC DE from git on VM1
>VM1 CPU: 100%
>Automated scripts failed due to max CPU usage
>Migrate build environment from VM1 to VM2
>profit

>>101175784
It's not hard. You're the one making things hard for yourself by insisting that 2.1 with native encryption isn't good enough for you.

>>101175829
how do you do this when your services in the different vms depend on eachothers functionality?

>>101175829
>my autism of separating my services in Virtual Machines instead of just running Docker containers
oh damn, my autism wants me to go the other way... you wanna try and talk me out of it?

>>101175829
>>Automated scripts failed due to max CPU usage
sounds like a problem with your scripts

>>101175528
its fine

>>101175934
Depends on the service, most of my services require access to my storage pool so I have a virtualized NAS VM with NFS shares for them. Fast access.

>>101175940
When I started my home server I was in your position but then it became troublesome to manage a lot of containers in a single machine. Further, a bug with a container brought the whole system down with the rest of the containers, it was a nightmare. Then I resorted to split them up, if a container killed a VM, only that VM would be affected, not the rest.

>>101175980
>sounds like a problem with your scripts
Yes, I'm aware, they can be improved, but regardless the functionality wouldn't been optimal. Meanwhile splitting the work to a different VM ensures any critical processes running on VM 1 won't be affected

>>101176076
>a bug with a container brought the whole system down with the rest of the containers
wut
i thought that was the whole point of things being in containers
i hate my current VMs and i never used a container in my life, so i feel like it would be useful to try and rebuild my shit

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>>101162759
Bumping question

>>101176167
you can memory/cpu limit containers if you like, you just aren't required to set limits upfront like with VMs

>>101176167
>i thought that was the whole point of things being in containers
The point is dependency isolation. Still the processes run with Docker share the same kernel.
I run Docker on VM's, it's still fast and secure.

>>101162759
It wouldn't be any different than a standard computer, Alder Lake i3's are good

>>101176221
So you're telling me any container can take down the host? Which means I can't have my router in a container, only dedicated hardware or a VM?

>>101176321
>So you're telling me any container can take down the host?
Yes
>Which means I can't have my router in a container, only dedicated hardware or a VM?
Yes

>>101176340
Containers are made to run isolated applications. You have to treat them as applications per se, not Operating Systems. The correct way to prevent host downtime is to isolate Operating Systems

>>101175915
>TRUST ME BRO YOU'LL BE FINE IF YOU AVOID ZFS SEND/REC

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>>101162759
Just do some broad searches on ebay or whereever for Lenovo, Dell and HP mini PCs.
The price curve will be different depending on your region, the sweetspot in my area is somwehere between Intel 6th gen to Intel 8th gen. Newer models cost way more, older models cost the same.

hey /hsg/, i am trying to mount a storage bucket to a server running debian using gcsfuse. i need others to be able to access it, and i need directories in the bucket.
is there something that would be similar to running:
mount -t gcsfuse -o allow_other --implicit-dirs mybucket /mnt/point
debian wont allow me to giving me the output:
mount: unrecognized option '--implicit-dirs'
any help would be appreciated

>>101175829
what kind of services do you run

>the fat man knows your fears. He knows of what dreams haunt your restless nights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdYToqy05pI

>>101175722
>What power cable should I be looking to get?
It's probably standard, 20A cables and 240v cables are keyed differently so you can't install a regular 15A cable into a power supply that requires 20A

>>101176793
https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gcsfuse-mount

>When mounting by using the Linux mount command, Cloud Storage FUSE CLI options can be passed as an argument to the -o flag, but hyphens (-) in them should be replaced with underscores (_). For example, implicit_dirs instead of implicit-dirs.

>sudo mount -t gcsfuse -o implicit_dirs my-bucket /path/to/mount/point

redpill me on WAN emulators

>>101178309
i found it, thanks. I ended up using
>sudo mount -t gcsfuse -o allow_other -o implicit_dirs my-bucket /path/to/mount/point

>>101177624
Another question if you don't mind, running both PSUs off of the same surge protector isn't an issue right

>>101178547
No its fine as long as the surge protector is rated for the watts that a single one of them draws maxed out.

>>101177036
k8s, jellyfin, *arrs, nextcloud, gitlab, minecraft, wireguard, nginx reverse proxy and others

>>101168636
What is the usecase for this?

>>101176793
you could have a look at rclone?

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RIP sweet prince.

>>101175940
Do it, run all the light ones of 1 vcpu core. I've had 13 running off a gcloud free tier vps for over a year and it's been solid.

>>101180633
> critical medium error, dev sdd, sector 2661595904 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 15 prio class 2
i'm sorry for your loss anon

>>101179288
I have about ~500gb of website archives, audio transcriptions, pdfs, djvus, epubs, word documents, etc

>>101180633
> t10.ATA____SanDisk_SSD_PLUS_480GB__________________20153E445313________:3
:3

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Hello cutiepies, is anyone running a server with older xeons with loads of storage? Why do some spec sheets list 1tb max for some of the intel chipsets that most xeon workstations come with?

Is this a real spec or just "iunno what the limit is so here's an arbitrarily high number for the current time period"

picrel is for intel C236 spec from dell's data sheets and i was thinking of pairing it with an E3-1270v5 because i have a lot of compatible hardware lying around for eventual fixes, but I'm gonna need more storage than what they claim it supports

>>101181676
that's just the largest drive they sold for it, 99% of the time it doesn't matter

What's the skinny on Cloudflare Tunnel vs Tailscale?

I already do my domain registration with Cloudflare so that's my default, but I'd like to hear from someone who's used both

>>101181676
May have something to do with Dell selling their OEM drives with Dell firmware from that time period, for the benefit of being able to update the firmware from Lifecycle Controller or iDRAC. I looked at Dell PowerEdge R230's Drivers & Downloads page, and couldn't find many HDDs > 2 TB in capacity. Many enterprise SAS HDDs were also smaller in capacity than consumer NAS drives.

>>101181676
>>101182202
https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=hj5gd&oscode=w12r2&productcode=poweredge-r230
12 TB SAS drive, supported by Dell in 13G PowerEdge platform (E3 v5).

>>101182188
>Tailscale
Light cuckoldry
>Cloudflare
Hardcore ,Vince McMahon style, public humiliation cuckoldry

>>101182188
aren't they different things? cloudflare tunnel is for connecting your server to cloudflare, tailscale is for creating a vpn connection between multiple devices you control

>>101182664
Sorry, I meant Cloudflare Access

Any of yous guys use Netbird?

>>101176190
Not sure I would get the most performant cpu within that format because of the inferior cooling they got, so the best bet is still a ~35W 6500T/8500T/9500T/10500T/12500T

What do you Anons suggest for a firewall software? I have a protectli vault that I just wanna put the software on and use that as the firewall, instead of putting it behind proxmox or something.
Only issue last time I tried doing this was, I was using opnsense, and I was not able to get my old router to become the AP on the second ethernet line. I know I suck at networking, but it got DHCP, but no Internet, which was a bummer.
I should do this again this weekend and get it over with, but I feel like opnsense might not be the ideal one? Since it didn't make it obvious to "give Internet" to the old router becoming the wifi AP.
I don't have my configuration on hand at the moment, but I'll try again.
But, I don't know if there are other firewall applications that may be better? What do you Anons suggest?
I do want to monitor traffic, block traffic to bad places, etc, and all that stuff as well. Willing to store logs and such to analyze for later, if let's say I accidentally click on something.

>>101185214
This is a good reason buy a dedicated AP, and a dedicated firewall appliance (not a software firewall for production).

>>101185449
Yeah I understand that, cause I was also looking at openwrt, but a lot of manual things to go over.
I just don't need a very strong AP for a big building, my place is pretty small to cover wifi for two people.
I'd LOVE to go for a PanOS, but I don't wanna pay licenses and will probably cost a lot. I think there are some appliances where you buy it once?
However, my big need is silence. I'm more into getting fanless computer to do the job, since I don't have a rack in the garage, or somewhere that the noise won't bother me

>>101185477
FortiGate generally costs the cost of the device + 15% of the device cost per year for FortiCare Essential (firmware updates, no other features, no business support). E.g. a FortiGate 60F is approximately ~$900 USD total cost for the device and a 5 year FortiCare Essential license for updates (total cost over 5 years: $180 USD/year or $15/month). FG-40F is ~$686 USD total with those two (go figure). Silent too. My servers cost more money than my firewalls.
I don't know about Palo Alto or Juniper SRX costs, both also require subscriptions.

>>101173201
You got a static public ip?

The screen on my tiny (9 minutes) desktop UPS for my rack broke years ago, and I'm looking for a rack mount replacement.
I want to the some devices to shut down when the power fails, but also get powered back up when it returns. I read that you can get network cards for Eaton units and with NUT you can directly talk to it.
Does anyone have experience with this, or can tell me why this is a retarded thing to want.

omfg openmediavault is such a gigantic piece of shit I have been trying to set this bullshit up for four days and have yet to be able to so much as transfer a file to it
what do people actually use to manage media servers because I refuse to believe that this piece of shit is actually popular

>>101186540
tbf, the first couple of hours were spent figuring out why the installer didn't work (it's because it has broken network drivers and will hang if you have ethernet plugged in)

>>101186540
Werks on my machine
Technodadlife has good troubleshooting omv videos

>>101185214
I recommend you pfSense, its documentation is great and you can install it in a VM or to bare metal. So far it has solved all my networking requirements without a sweat

>>101186540
????
Literally install and setup on my side. I had more troubles installing Ubuntu than setting up a share in OMV

I need some recommendations on my shopping list to replace my current setup at work and home.
I already have solutions in place with RPi or old tower but I need something that can be managed by someone else (coworker and wife)

Pro NAS for less than 10 users, don't care about noise
Synology DS224+ or DS723+, with 2x4Tb Synology HAT3300 (built-in firmware upgrade) or Toshiba N300 (cheapest 7k2 RPM), a 4GB Synology RAM stick for 2+4Gb, a Synology or <insert brand> NVME SSD to maybe increase speed ?

Use case :
Heavy use of Drive with a dedicated domain (not sure how to do it with QuickConnect or a DDNS)
Heavy use of VPN Server for RDP
Probably Hyper Backup or Active Backup but we'll mostly use the Drive as a backup
Probably Docker for ZeroTier if OpenVPN is not what we expect
Maybe VM (but I have an EliteDesk in the office for this currently)

Home NAS for 2 users, care a lot about noise (near our bedroom)
Synology ??? (I realistically need only 1 bay but I don't know the futur, 4Tb Synology HAT3300 (5k4 RPM so lower noise and built-in firmware upgrade), don't know if I need a RAM upgrade and NVME SSD.
Or I can try to buy an unused DS412+ from a customer but only 1GB of RAM (looks like I can upgrade it unofficially with some specific sticks)

Use case :
Android Photos backup with QuickConnect
NAS for movies with Kodi on AndroidTV
Docker for ZeroTier
Probably Download Station if I can manage to put the MullvadVPN or SOCKS proxy on it (my country care about piracy ...)
Probably Cloud Sync for 3-2-1 backup
Probably Audio Station if Spotify continue to fuck with me
Maybe Video Station (but I'm currently used to accessing my NAS from VPN for videos)

>>101186540
>what do people actually use to manage media servers
Windows Server 2022, StarWind VSAN Free, or VMware vSAN.

Is there a way to copy the rysnc differences to an HDD and use that as the main data transfer, rather than via network? My situation is my storage size is large enough that large file transfers would take months up to a 1 year+. I will have two servers, the initial sync will be done locally, but moving on they'd be remote and sync over the internet. Is it possible to perform an rysnc, see exactly what is different, copy only that data to an external drive, the physically take that drive to the remote location and plug it into the backup server to copy across? I literally don't have a better idea short of physically bring the second server with me everytime I need to do a large rsync.

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Got a chunky mini workstation.

Finally ran out of HDD slots on my Fractal R5 case.

Once this fills up I will have to move to a bigger case somehow, maybe a 24 drive server chassis

>>101186971
NTA but that's true only if you get a omv iso and install it like a regular linux distro
if you already run linux and you choose to install OMV as a package then get ready for some serious pain in the ass running into some unsolved issues circa 2018 on their forums

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>>101155742
I built my rack with 10gig nics and a 10gig switch, when I had slow ass dsl.
Then I finally got fiber, and now I have 4gbit up and down.
We're all gonna make it, anon

>>101187618
Oh I understand now. Blame on those OMV fuckers then for allowing that kind of installation

>>101156238
Turns out my PS2 is the one device that can write to a share at all so I'm even more stumped now.

>>101186540
I feel your pain, my advice is to use pure Debian with samba or do like me, move to TrueNas and never look back to that crap.

Whats your backup strategy on a budget?
The most straightforward one is an external hdd, but thats quite slow to backup large volumes over usb
Another NAS seems overkill

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I want to unfuck my network topology. Right now I have pic related.
>two networks: trusted (10.x.x.x) and untrusted (192.168.x.x)
>also have a separate 10gbit dac between desktop and main server
>solid lines are ethernet, dashed lines are wifi
>bedroom ap/switch has same SSID as the main router wifi, but it's not a mesh network
>they both have to be connected via rj45 to the router to connect to the wider ethernet/internet
>the isolated subnet is created in dd-wrt via a port setting (when work laptop is on ethernet) and a separate SSID
the main problems are
>1. since my bedroom ap/switch and router aren't in a mesh network, sometimes devices "stick" to a weaker signal
>2. the main router and bedroom ap/switch give good coverage for my main network, but there's a deadzone in my bedroom/balcony for my work laptop
>3. my desktop runs GNOME and sometimes its network manager thinks all traffic should go over the DAC, which means I have to disconnect/reconnect to get it going over the rj45 connection (this never happens in Windows)
for 1, do i need to buy/build a new mesh network? my router is old (Buffalo WZR-600DHP2) and doesn't support mesh networking. my bedroom ap/switch is an tp-link archer 6, which does support it though (I think)
for 2, I'll probably just buy a cheap $25 repeater since I don't care about handoffs
for 3, I think I have to suck it up and buy a switch with both rj45/sfp+. I'm thinking of https://www.amazon.com/Mikrotik-CSS326-24G-2S-RM-Gigabit-Ethernet/dp/B0723DT6MN

thoughts?

>>101188854
slap in another HDD to existing NAS and rsync everything to it

>t. I do that, it werks

>>101189335
Interesting case.
>1. do i need to buy/build a new mesh network?
It is advisable, mesh networks are transparent to the user. I installed for my family network and everybody's happy, coverage everywhere.
>2. You could buy repeaters but the mesh could solve it as well
>3. No need to buy another switch, if the main router is the one doing the routing and not your main server than you can just remove the default gateway /DNS from your PC-Server connection and it should just default to the one with gateway (rj45)

Should I use a PC to play around with windows server? What Windows server version is used the most?

>>101189434
Gosh darn it, fucked up the green text, anyways it is understandable at least

>>101189447
>Should I use a PC to play around with windows server?
Do you have a licence? Then yes, otherwise, no
>What Windows server version is used the most?
2019

>>101189476
Thanks

>>101189434
thanks for the responses

I was retarded and thought having the same ssid would make devices jump automatically. Didn't realize that was separate tech

>You could buy repeaters but the mesh could solve it as well
I have two different ssids and want to keep them separate. Don't meshes usually only do one ssid?
>No need to buy another switch, if the main router is the one doing the routing and not your main server than you can just remove the default gateway /DNS from your PC-Server connection and it should just default to the one with gateway (rj45)
The router is doing the switching/ip assigning.
The desktop has two connections:
>desktop=>router, with router as gateway, dns, etc
>desktop=>server, with server as gateway (no dns, etc)

>>101189748
>Don't meshes usually only do one ssid?
Yes, you should use different AP's for this given you want then separated

>>desktop=>server, with server as gateway (no dns, etc)
That's your problem, in your desktop, the connection to the server shouldn't have a gateway if the server is not doing the routing

>>101189476
>Do you have a licence? Then yes, otherwise, no
imagine paying for windows

>>101189842
>imagine paying for windows
enjoy your backdoors, also, what are you, poor?

>>101155850
its a frontdoor

>>101189895
what year are you living in? activation scripts are 100% safe and everyone uses them

>what are you, poor
no, I'm smart, but I can tell how someone of your IQ would have trouble telling the difference

>>101189941
>I'm smart because I don't pay for something that I should be paying for
okay smartass

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>>101189948
>sir please redeem windows license! your illegal windows copy has 18925 malware sir, please call microsoft support now to resolve the issue for only $100 in google play gift cards sir, do the needful and redeem certified windows software, please sir

>>101164049
just use serial console

>>101189811
>Yes, you should use different AP's for this given you want then separated
yeah, that's going to be the annoying part. will probably just buy the cheap extender since I don't particularly care about performance for those devices as long as it's constant and > 100mbps
>That's your problem, in your desktop, the connection to the server shouldn't have a gateway if the server is not doing the routing
I'll have to boot into Linux and see how it's set up. It's not an issue in Windows and I don't think it happened on a live cd, only in GNOME.

On Windows I don't have a dns setup, but do have a gateway (Windows won't let me have the connection without it).

>>101189895
>enjoy your backdoors,
1 or 2 extra backdoors isn't that big of a deal.
>what are you, poor?
yes

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all i want is 4+ SFP+ ports and RJ45, but it's so fucking expensive

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>>101190867
You made me reboot, to Windows, that doesn't happen very often.
>On Windows I don't have a dns setup, but do have a gateway (Windows won't let me have the connection without it)
Turns out you can have a connection without gateway & DNS

>>101190985
Same here, that's why I resorted to get a managed switch with RJ45 + SFP and will be getting 10G DACs soon

>>101191032
>default ethernet settings wouldnt let configure without gateway
I blame brainlets
>i hate modern windows so fucking much times
Samewise

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>>101191002
weird. I tried in the default ethernet settings (pic rel) but it wouldnt let me
but that older method (win95 i think?) does work

i hate modern windows so fucking much sometimes

I have shitload of old drives with no idea what's in them, can I just ddrescue them into images and mount them later? Like if there's a plain NTFS drive I can mount the saved image as a 1:1 copy of the drive?

The other obvious solution would be mounting drives directly and copying files but the drives have been sitting for 10 years and dd'ing them could be safer.

>>101191102
This question is more suited for >>>/g/fglt/
But answering your question: Yes, it is easier if you make separated images for partitions instead of a single drive, then do:

# mount -o loop /path/to/partition_image /media/mountpoint

If you decide to dd the complete drive you'd need to tell the kernel to map partitions with

kpartx -v -a path/to/disk_image

And then mount -o loop /dev/mapper/loop0pX where X are the partition numbers

ok I'm trying to install OMV on a hp device from a boot drive 3 times now
Installation goes fine, on reboot it doens't fucking boot into OMV
it either goes to PXE IPV4 or it start HP sure start recovery
I've disabled those things in the BIOS already, yet it just seems to do a few boot loops and start the sure start recovery anyway???
what the fuck is going on

>>101190985
you can get a CRS305-1G-4S+IN used for under a hundred bucks.

>>101191235
not rackmounted, unfortunately
and it also only has 1 rj45

>>101191058
use the old ethernet adapter page, in control panel.

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>>101191255
do you really need it rackmounted? it's smol enough to sit it ontop of something.

>>101191255
use the the rj45 to connect it to an el cheapo gb switch if you want more rj45.

>>101191187 (Me)
And now it says boot device not found right after installing
Is the nvme drive shot?

>>101191310
set your boot order to nvme, disable PXE, disbale secure boot, make sure it shows in bios, most bios will let you force boot a drive from within the bios.

>>101191310
>>101191329
also if it's an ancient HP then sometimes you can't even boot from nvme. check for bios updates too.

>>101191329
i did all those things already
grub or uefi doesn't load
it just says 'boot device not found'

>>101191356
>>101191329
In the BIOS it also says that debian is installed on the M.2, so it should work?

>>101191360
if it shows in bios, you're able to select it as a boot order option, and you're able to install an OS onto it, the drive is fine.
whats you mobo and bios version?

>>101191171
Thanks, also found a good guide here.
https://www.baeldung.com/linux/img-raw-image-dump-file-management

And to make this /hsg/-related, my aim is finally to get rid of random drives here and there for a reliable & robust storage system.

>>101191402
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06047207
this device
BIOS version is 1.26.0.0

I may have found the problem: https://forum.openmediavault.org/index.php?thread/47409-omv6-boot-device-note-found-after-clean-install/
going to try this

>>101191496
Okay it's not reading the supergrub usb either
jfc

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>>101186540
I am content to run plex/deluge/nfs/samba/ssh/zfs on ubuntu server machines. You need like 3 minutes of time in the terminal doing configs and installs if you have everything listed out in front of you.

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>>101186540
>>101188252
>look it up
>it's real
Not even in a vm? Why would you ever do that-is that what he was talking about??

>>101187388
Seems pretty trivial if you have 2 instances of rsync, one on the server packing your hdd for transport, and onther on the server copying it to it's own storage.

warning: retard alert
I'm looking at moving my disks onto a NAS. I'm just gonna build a lower-tier PC and throw the drives in.
I have 2x 18TB drives in EXT4 with one full and the other just a little full.
I was going to move to freeNAS, which seems to only run on zfs.
Before I commit to this, can someone tell me if I'm going to get hit with a roadblock trying to take my 2 drives and moving them into ZFS? Can I just plug in the drives, run some commands, and have it pop out as a nice zpool with my data intact? Or am I gonna have to buy an intermediate drive, pool the first 2, move my data, then add the third drive?

>>101193009
>with my data intact
Nope. Any change to the filesystem will delete your data. If your second drive was empty then it would've been relatively painless to put zfs on that and copy data over, then mirror the disks, though you would lose some capacity on metadata.
Instead of bothering with truenas, you should use the server/headless variant of the OS you're used to. That way they can still stay ex4 and you can work on adding redundancy or a backup solution.
I hope you have a budget for disks. I'm surprised you didn't use the second disk for backups and just running 18TB+ raw.

>>101193132
Actually I just deleted a few folders (movies I downloaded for my dad) from the main drive and now I have a clear, empty second drive and about 2tb free on the first drive. So zfs->copy data->mirror?

Just updated Jellyfin Server to 10.9.X and though the Server still works on the machine I'm running it on, nothing can connect to it. I tried reinstalling the 10.8.X version I was using but nothing. Googling suggested setting IgnoreVirtualInterfaces to false in network.xml but it already was. Any suggestions?

>>101193253
zfs on empty drive
mount the ext4 as read only
then copy everything over into the datasets/organization you want.
You can mirror if you want or keep the disk as a backup until you get more disks.

If you insist on truenas, do not attach the disks until the OS has been installed.

>>101193331
Wanted to update here, I fixed it by changing the "bind to local network address" field under Networking to my actual IP rather than leaving it blank.

>>101190985
brocade ICX6450

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I've got an 8tb hard drive that I can't really do anything with until ZFS expansion gets added. Is there anything like Folding@Home but for unused hard drive space?
I guess there's Hentai@Home but I have a feeling my ISP wouldn't like me doing that.

>>101193711
if only there was a filesystem that let you add disks

a better fs, maybe

>>101194006
>if only there was a filesystem that let you add disks
btrfs
it just werks man

captcha: VTX VRK

>>101194033
>btrfs
>it just werks man
yeah i think he was alluding to that chief.

>>101191102
perhaps clonezilla might be of interest?

>>101189447
Why tho

>>101194831
NTA. Active Directory is quite essential in any lab, unless you're using Microsoft Entra ID.

I'm so excited!!! I bought an HP EliteDesk 800 G4 from eBay last week for around $130 total ($110 + $18 shipping + taxes)

It was listed with these specs:
i7-8700 CPU
32gb ram (4x 8gb)
256gb SSD

when I opened it up it had all of that + a 512gb NVME SSD connected to the motherboard. I don't know why they didn't list that but I feel like I got a great deal.

This is my first server PC ever and I'm really not even sure where to start with it. I mostly wanted to use it as a NAS but now I'm seeing that I can put in a low profile GTX 1650 graphics card in it and there's two 3.5inch hard drive bays in it for me to use so I'm thinking of buying a 12tb or 16tb used hard drive and putting that in here. I definitely need more space.

I can apparently also max it out with 128gb of ram but idk where that even makes sense to do..

I'm also seeing a lot of people using Docker to run their apps on their home servers. This doesn't really make sense to me cause why would you use Docker to run something like Plex or a web server when you could just run Plex or a web server straight from your home server? Wouldn't using Docker to do this just use more resources like RAM? idk there's a lot to learn about servers and stuff. I really just wanted it to tinker with it. I thought about keeping Windows on it since that would be the easiest thing for me to use but maybe I should install Ubuntu on it? Again, my only real needs are for media sharing to my TV or other computer which is on the same network so maybe it doesn't matter what OS I use for that.

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>>101195815

>>101155492
Anyone run ssh-chat for frens?
It seems to be way better than IRC for a simple chat room

>>101195815
>This doesn't really make sense to me cause why would you use Docker to run something like Plex or a web server when you could just run Plex or a web server straight from your home server?
using docker means you basically get an OS image with the application already installed and ready to use and it's kept separate from your host OS (it still runs on the host kernel though so it doesn't really use significantly more resources like a VM would).
this means it's easier to set up, and you avoid having a bunch of loose dependencies and configuration files scattered throughout your host OS that the application depends on. it's clean and lets you easily migrate the application to another machine or host OS installation without worries, and also avoids potential conflicts between different applications if they share dependencies.
on the other hand, docker images are often black boxes that you're not expected to look inside of, and if you run into weird problems/want some non-standard configuration, you're probably gonna be fighting docker for it a lot more than if it was installed on bare metal. and you usually learn a lot more by installing stuff manually vs using docker.
if you don't want a ready-to-use solution and prefer to do it yourself for learning purposes, I recommend a normal non-docker installation, but you can still use something like lxc containers to set up a separate OS from your host to install on, kinda like a VM but again without the extra resource use.

>I thought about keeping Windows on it since that would be the easiest thing for me to use but maybe I should install Ubuntu on it?
If you're using it for NAS purposes, you probably want some flavor of linux on it since you have a lot more options for things like raid. Ubuntu server is fine, but if this is your first time messing with a linux terminal, there's definitely a learning curve.

>>101193710
>use tons of power
>sounds like a jet engine
>need licenses to do anything

>receive old shitbox i built for my mom 10 years ago
>FM2 apu so not really sure if it's possible
>think fuck it and try anyway
>now see it only has sata 2 connectors
so it's fucked yeah?

>>101197533
>>>/g/pcbg
But I'll bite.
>fucked yeah?
nah, make use of those PCI-e ports it has.
You can add HBA or PCI-e -> M.2 adapters for extra storage. CPU might be weak for media services though, you might want to scope it to NAS or hosting simple applications only

>>101197568
forgot to mention i wanted to turn it into a nas

>>101197576
What I'd do
>HBA's are expensive
>PCI-e -> NVMe are cheap
>Get cheapo NVMe storage
>but anon it can't boot
>fuckit.png
>install bootloader to a usb drive, map / to NVMe
>profit, boot from NVMe
>Get 2x20TB enterprise HDD's, install to SATAs
>profit

>>101197594
im sorry youre speaking a bit above my pay grade

>>101197576
Then grab a cheap pcie->sata expansion card. I have a couple of these in my NAS: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B098QP77Z3/
You can get any of them, including cheap chinese cards, as long as they use good chips.

>>101196630
Thanks a lot anon! I went ahead and installed Ubuntu Server and installed CasaOS. So far everything is running smoothly and it was pretty painless.

I'm still learning about servers and I am attempting to install Tailscale now so that I can in theory connect to my home server when I'm not at home and still access my data.

Thank you for the explaining Docker and why it's good. That does make sense to keep dependencies and everything separate. I do frontend development and some projects require different versions of Nodejs and NPM to run and I can see how just having the project inside of a Docker image just simplifies getting the project set up and lets you get to work faster instead of dealing with bullshit installation and set up problems.

Hello, I'm looking to get started in the homelab world and so I looked up someone else's recommendation of picking up a used HP DL360 or Dell 730 and have a question.

Those rack systems are sold without a GPU on ebay but do have integrated an matrox g200, which has 8mb of vram. I would need to add my own GPU to make the server able to run the workloads like Plex/Jellyfin, right?

I'm also not sure what "half length" means in
"PCIe 3.0 Full-height/half length x16 expansion slot" from the documentation... is it one of those tiny slots for network cards and m.2 adapters or can I actually throw some old Quadro card into it?

>>101155492
redpill me on coreboot. Is it really superior to proprietary BIOS? Main argument for me is no Intel ME (and its CVEs).

>>101199113
I'd personally recommend getting a modern small form factor business pc (e.g HP Elitedesk (Mini), Fujitsu Esprimo) for this use case, you can pick up used off ebay for $100-$200 with a ~8th geni5 which can do most video transcoding.

Hello /g/ents, I'd like some advice with NFS.

I run Windows Server 2019, and sharing data via NFS to clients on my network.
My problem is, NFS upload speeds are saturating the 1Gb link the server has, but download speeds cap at around ~250Mb (~40 MB/s) speeds.
I tried fine tuning the NFS server's parameters and the mounting options on my desktop PC (Win10), nothing changes.
Meanwhile, if I'm mounting my server with SMB, both upload and download speeds reach 1Gbps.

What the FUCK is causing this?

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Is getting something like this for a server a good idea at all?
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006399864817.html
From what little I saw it's not uncommon for people to use AliExpress CPU/motherboard combos for their home servers and I was pleasantly surprised by AliExpress quality before (when I doubled check the store is the official one) but I've never bought anything quite this expensive there.

I'm asking less in terms of performance and more in terms of reliability and it not shitting itself for esoteric and/or unfixable reasons.
That being said if someone did buy this one in particular I'd love to hear about it.

>>101199587
Doesnt this have buggy ethernet ports?

I'm having an odd problem with SMB over OMV after just setting up shares
I can copy files into the share just fine but when I copy folders it only copies the folders and says 'access denied' for the files inside the folder
what gives?

>>101195815
That's not a server, and it's also (soon to be) e-waste.
It can do virtualization, but the hardware is still perpetually consumer hardware. No ECC memory support.
At least you can download drivers and firmware updates from the manufacturer. HP only supports Windows 10 and maybe Windows 11 for that machine.
If you were looking to build a NAS, you've bought the wrong thing.

>>101196725
>25w
>one little quiet fan which can be replaced
>well documented license hacks

>>101199262
>coreboot. Is it really superior to proprietary BIOS?
In the server world, never. It can't compete with the likes of Lifecycle Controller features and more, unless those would be separate bootloader boot options, but they don't exist.
Don't use CPUs with ESU/EOSL status, and keep your microcode up to date.

>>101199421
Xeon E3/E series (up to E-2300) or Flex GPU for QSV encoding.

>>101199579
What are your NIC models?

>>101199587
You answered to yourself. Nobody's buying these for reliability, to depend on them. They're toys.

>>101200717
The WinSrv is a VM on ESXi 6.5 so it's VMXNET3.
The physical host is an HP Microserver G8, so it has a "HP Ethernet 1GB 2-port 332i".

>>101200865
And your desktop PC?

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>>101181676
don't know what's that about, here's my R330 with the exact CPU using big Exos drives through AHCI SATA.

>>101199579
What does the storage backend look like? Could expect this behavior with SSHD or HDD with SSD cache

>>101200899
How did you install your M.2 Intel Optane SSD?

>>101200987
PCIe x4 adapter with low profile bracket, M.2 (the non sata one) is just PCIe in a different form factor.

>>101201014
I should've asked what PCIe bracket you've used to install it, but I know a few from Supermicro and ASUS that work.

>>101200896
My desktop's NIC is an on-board Realtek RTL8168/8111.

>>101200907
The share in question is on a RAID5 array of 4 WD Reds (old school WD40EFRX), the array is handled by a HP Smart Array P222 with 2GB cache module and battery backup. The array itself is then given to the VM as an RDM disk with compatibility set to "physical".
The Cache settings for the RAID card is 10% read, 90% write.

>>101201059
Have you tested sustained throughput to the backing from within the VM but not over the network?

>>101201059
Use a Broadcom / Intel / Mellanox NIC and try again. Preferably one of the latter two. I'm not personally interested to diagnose Realtek's drivers or its plausible lack of CPU offloading features.
If you have a managed switch in between, look at the counters for packet loss/errors. Use a good pre-terminated patch cable, connect directly with a patch cable and use static IPs if you need to test.
I asked for your NICs because Intel I225-V/I226-V NICs have issues with EEE staying on when it shouldn't, limiting throughput.

>RAID5
>HDDs
Not my favorite, but it probably won't matter.

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>>101201118
Well, I' did some CrystalDiskMark testing, if that counts. Gave good results IMO.

>>101201037
It's a single M.2 slot one, so no bifurcation or onboard controllers, just the cheapset and most basic ones you can get. A Gembird one in R330 and Ugreen one in ML110 G9, both work without issues.
I've no experience with multiple M.2 ones sadly.
I boot off PM883 SATA in my R330 (2.5" in optical drive bay), so i don't need more that one M.2 slot (although RAID1 for boot drive could be nice i guess).

>>101201158
The most "correct" way to have RAID1 for booting is to use a Dell BOSS card (Dell BOSS-S1), but those are only supported starting from 14th generation PowerEdge and up (R340 for 1U).
The two other correct ways are to use a SATADOM, or formerly IDSDM but the latter is deprecated by VMware in newer versions.

Thanks for explaining, anyway.

>>101201206
Oh and the R330 doesn't have redundant boot options other than IDSDM, so the SATADOM isn't redundant.

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>be wagie
>no time to tinker
>be unemployed
>all this free time
>no shekels to spend to upgrade home server/network
>unsure how to set up what i have

>>101199587
>reliability
>JMB575
I'll sound like a broken record (again), but here it goes (check the desuarchive):
>>98909110
>>98065723
>tldr: don't use AsMedia/JMicron SATA controllers, only AHCI SATA or SAS HBAs (they work with SATA too)

>>101201206
>>101201221
interesting, thanks for the info. Yeah, R330 doesn't even support PCIe booting anyway, so as you said i'd need a dual SATADOM or dual USB to keep the redundancy (SATADOM or USB acting as a bootloader for PCIe M.2).

>>101155850
>IPMI
Let me fucking tell you about fucking IPMI.

>purchase a bare metal server from provider
>ask for IPMI/KVM access to do custom installation
>get random public IP accessible only over HTTP
>oh_boy_here_we_go_again.png
>log in and find webui from early 2000s
>attempt to connect to console
>it runs using java applets
>requires ancient java version
>cannot be downloaded without adjusting browser settings because browser thinkgs it's malware
>have to try 10 different java version to run it
>finally find an icedtea version that works
>it starts, but the window is 4cm by 3cm on my 42inch 4k screen
>have to change resolution to 1280x720 for it to be readable
>attempt to boot the system
>the lag makes it almost unusable
>spend good 1 hours slowly going through ubuntu server tui installer to setup the LUKS raid1 with encryption
>ubuntu starts installation but explodes mi-way
>have to do the whole process all over again
>it crashes again
>ask support, they say i should use a special iso image with extra drivers
>wtf_is_this.jpg
>attempt to use their "special ISO", only for it to crash
>give up and get a VPS

>>101201298
Correct. But is there only one internal SATA power connector on-board? Two SATA ports, one power on an R730.

>>101166544
I've been running NixOS on the R6S for months now kid. You're late to the party.

>>101201311
sounds like hetzner

>>101201319
yeah, i believe so, two SATA ports (optical drive + tape backup i believe), and only one SATA power for optical drive.

>>101201319 (Me)
https://dl.dell.com/topicspdf/poweredge-r330_owners-manual_en-us.pdf#page=121
One power connector for the backplane at the front, and one for the optical drive.
I imagine you wouldn't want to remove power from the backplane to use dual boot devices for a bootloader, NVMe storage. iDRAC 8 doesn't like that.

>>101201131
Use a Broadcom / Intel / Mellanox NIC and try again. Preferably one of the latter two. I'm not personally interested to diagnose Realtek's drivers or its plausible lack of CPU offloading features.
On my desktop or the server? The server's NICs are all onboard, and the only expansion slot is occupied by the RAID controller.
There are some offloading settings in the device properties, should I switch any of them to disabled? Large send offload v2, tcp/udp checksum offload, ns offload, etc.

If you have a managed switch in between, look at the counters for packet loss/errors. Use a good pre-terminated patch cable, connect directly with a patch cable and use static IPs if you need to test.
Did that, nothing changed. I have a switch inbetween, but it's a dumb little 5port TP-link.
Changed the RAID controller's cache ratio to 50-50 too, nothing.

My problem is, why is NFS download the only slow thing here?
Why is NFS upload as fast as SMB as a whole?

>Not my favorite, but it probably won't matter.
I'm poor this was good value ;_;

>>101201371
shit, forgot the quoting marks...
>tfw frustrated

>>101201351
Hetzner KVMs are lovely in comparison, and they work in the browser. No, it was SwissMadeHost. My client has a requirement to host in Switzerland, and Swiss providers are absolute fucking garbage:

>everything is 3-4 times the price
>most hardware is 10 years old or more
>not a single new kvm sight, just ancient ipmis
>tragic support with outsources pajeets

I want off this ride. Hetzner is smooth sailing in comparison.

>>101201398
>No, it was SwissMadeHost.
>AS197988 Solar Communications GmbH
https://bgp.he.net/AS197988
Just. why.

The prices I'm seeing on their website are also more expensive and way more e-waste than a server with Xeon E-2224 and 16 GB ECC RAM I found online in Switzerland for 149.00 CHF. 1,000+ BGP peers.

>>101199925
Not a clue, that's why I'm asking.

>>101201254
That's a shame, though in retrospect there was bound to be a catch, thanks a lot!
On the topic, is there any point in checking other AliExpress boards that have a soldered mobile CPU like those or are they all virtually guaranteed to have the same problem?
(The one I linked and another one I was looking at also from CWWK do mention the JMB575, only after hitting "view more" but still)
What about socketed CPU boards? I shouldn't encounter this problem since with the controllers are only there to make up for the CPU's limited I/O, right?
Assuming of course the CPU itself can support however many SATA ports I intend on using, which as you've mentioned seems to be a hassle to figure out.

>>101201501
They were already using it when I joined. If you have a better recomendation happy to check it out, but I doubt we'd have the time to migrate what already exists there.

>>101201561
I only have ~7 years of experience with a Swiss "cloud" provider, so I can't comment. But the 149,00 CHF server I looked at was from AS198385 AlpineDC SA, which happened to be the first dedicated server provider one I found from https://bgp.he.net/country/CH ranked by most IPv4 adjacencies.

>>101201608
Not bad. I'd love to stop using SwissMade, but there's so much work in just handling new stuff it's hard to find time to migrate old stuff.

But thanks, i will consider this next time I'm buying.

>>101201643
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>>101201561
>>101201398
>>101201382
>>101201371

new thread you guys:

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>>101201660
Bump limit is 310.

>>101201725
jit

>>101195815
>I'm so excited!!!
Femoid or underage?

>>101202037
>cant get excited anymore
chronically depressed coomer spotted

>>101202129
No, that's for children and women. Especially the part where you shared your emotions on an anonymous image board. Now, answer my question.

>>101202176
Let people enjoy their autism and share their excitement anon, not their fault that you're so grumpy

>>101195815
>>101195831
You'll want to check the manual for where you can hide the 2.5" so it's not in the way of 3.5" disks. For mounting the 3.5" disks, you can find the 'official' HP mounting screws on ebay but I think you can get away with just normal screws in the side of your disks but not tightened all the way. If you weren't going to use the pcie or disk bays, you could've got a usff instead but you'll have more options to add nonsense to this. You have to keep to half length cards however and don't expect to sufficiently cool ancient quad 10gbit nics without some jank rigging.

The way linux works, they reuse a lot of common tools/commands. Docker and other containerization/virtualization structures allow you to isolate those settings so garbage programming doesn't fuck with your own settings or cause conflicts from version differences.
You can never have enough ram but I wouldn't really go out of your way to buy sticks until you find a need, hopefully you have some lying around. Don't expect to overclock, tweak, or do anything special with the ram either so don't bother getting fast ram. Most apps are pretty light but expect some "needs java runtime" that'll eat a shitton doing nothing.

>>101201502
Intel N-series only has 2 native sata ports, so anything extra has to be on a new chip and most just throw on the cheapest assmedia they can find. They'll 'work' but will probably shit themselves if i/o is too intense because they still have to share lane bandwidth to the cpu.
This is going to be the same story among most N-series boards because nobody wants to pay the extra cost to get more suitable chips.

>>101201502
generally those mobile CPUs lack IO, you're stuck with whatever amount of SATA lanes there are on the chipset (typically 2) + maybe some PCIe for HBA expansion (LSI 9211 wants 4 lanes of PCIe 2.0 per SAS port, 1 SAS port has 4 SAS lanes, each SAS lane is equal to 1 6Gbps SATA).
But many of those boards prefer to use up those PCIe lanes for M.2, meaning you'd need to get those janky M.2 -> PCIe adapters.
Socketed CPUs tend to have more IO, even something built upon small desktop socket like the E3-1270v5 mentioned (LGA 1151) has ECC, 4 onboard SATA and 16 PCIe lanes, enough to accomodate 1 M.2 SSD, LSI 9211-4 for 4 additional SATA ports and a 10+Gbps network card.
Bigger sockets like LGA 2011 or LGA 3647 have even more IO, though they might be hard to find in ATX form factor (unless you want to use one of those chinese X99 frankenboards). You can get then in servers/workstations though.