Category: Home-Lab
-
LB-6M Link Aggregation
This article exists for reference only. After all of the configurations I attempted, I could not get link aggregation to work on the 4 1G ports on my Quanta. It does theoretically support it, and I later tested the same process on 2 10G SFP ports which did work. This is more just for reference…
-
Cloud-Init VM image in Proxmox
Ok, I finally got tired of some of the issues I had with my simple Ubuntu golden image template in Proxmox, and it’s time to setup something a little more permanent and professional. Proxmox has great support for a tool called Cloud-Init. Cloud-init is basically a distro agnostic tool for deploying VMs that auto-populate with…
-
I bought new VM servers
Ok ok, I know. After all I said about using my Dell R410s, I went and bought new servers. They were cheap enough, and if you are in the market, I can recommend them. I bought 2 Dell R620s with 64gb of ram each, 2 Xeon E5-2670s, 2 PSUs, 4 SAS drives, iDRAC, and NICs…
-
Creating a Golden Image
When getting started with deploying virtual machines in Proxmox, or any hypervisor, it can be beneficial to have a set of “Golden Images” that are basically just pre-configured templates that can be cloned and modified quickly when you need to do something new. First start out by creating an Ubuntu (or whatever you want) VM…
-
Building my first homelab virtualization server
Preamble In a previous post, I outlined my plan to rebuild my entire home lab to be far more robust and scalable in the future, as well as for the purposes of learning more advanced technologies and software used in proper larger scale deployments. A home lab is, after all, built for the purposes of…