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After over 10 years of faithful service, and more than a few call from Bell, I have upgraded the old Actiontec R1000H to the Bell Gigahub and moved from the 500 Mb/s/500 Mb/s to the 1 Gb/s/1 Gb/s service. Luckily, … Continue reading →

I used hardware RAID on my HP DL380s via the Smart Array P440ar Controller. As I noted on my previous posts, my VM storage in on the RS1221+ NAS via NFS so ZFS is not a concern. Storage on the … Continue reading →

If you haven’t noticed, Proxmox released its Datacenter Manager back on December 19, 2024 as alpha version 0.1. For an alpha release, it is amazingly stable. So far, it is up to version 01.11. It is not feature complete as … Continue reading →

After taking a good look at the circuit boards in the 5PX, I was pleasantly surprised to find no leaking or bulging capacitors. I checked a few capacitors in circuit, and they measured acceptable. I “bit the bullet” and purchased … Continue reading →

Well, I updated the Mini G3 to the latest Proxmox 8.3.3 with proxmox-kernel-6.8.12-7 and it seems that the need to blacklist the tg3 module is gone. In fact, with it blacklisted, you no longer have any networking. Removing tg3 from … Continue reading →

I think that I have finally figured out how to get my EliteDesk 705 G3 Mini PC working. Part of the problem is the Broadcom BCM5762 NIC in which case you have to (a) blacklist the NIC driver tg3 and … Continue reading →

The home lab journey continues. I was a “good enough” boy last year, so Santa dropped off a Unifi Aggregation Switch. This completes my back end “core” for my standard networking and NFS storage for my Proxmox servers. I also … Continue reading →

Hi Folks – an FYI on the Netgate 6100 port assignments. This really messed me up as the SFP port numbering is not clear – at least not clear to me – in the documentation. So, in case anyone else … Continue reading →

Ok… The truth is I was scrolling through Facebook Marketplace and I saw a an Eaton 5PX2200 UPS for sale. It was rackmount and the pictures looked good. But for an impulse purchase the price was a little high. A … Continue reading →

I was going through some old web backups (because of the last post) and found a picture (320×240 and I scaled it up a bit for this post – I think we had a Sony Mavica digital camera). Here’s some … Continue reading →