Homelab

I)Introduction Many think tape is dead within the data center. Over time, other storage technologies such as virtual tape libraries (VTLs) and object storage offload have eaten much of the market share that tape has had. Where tape has started seeing resurgence is customers who are mindful of ransomware. This guide covers how to use native tools within Proxmox to do backups. External tools such as Veeam or Proxmox Backup Server will not be covered here. This article focuses on VMs, and the commands to back up containers are not the same. A lot of the fundamentals will be the… Read more: Working with Tape in Linux

The purpose of a home lab is to learn. For me, it’s in many ways a re-visit of the work with computers I started when I was in my teenaged years. Although the systems I’ve worked on have evolved as has my knowledge, some things remain the same. First and foremost that you have to put the investment in to get the return. I am working through the initial iteration of this home lab. What that means is I have TrueNAS set up serving iSCSI, and I have three nested Proxmox VMs configured. Disk Pass through was configured to the… Read more: Hard Learned victories

I)Introduction There have been many home labs built, destroyed and rebuilt (some many times) over the years. For the technical side of a profession it is a necessity to have a place to carry one’s own agenda without risk of disrupting daily activities. A home lab can be in an incredibly large number of forms from a single server that’s running a bare metal operating system to complex, multi rack solutions that involve dozens of systems. Developers tend to even use their laptop with no external infrastructure. No matter the size, the value comes from the ability to learn new… Read more: The Home Lab Manifesto