HomeLab [2025-06-02]: poorly server
After half-term week, where the hope of getting "adulty" things done gently fades into obscurity, I was chomping at the bit to crack on with #homelab tasks. I had various tasks ahead of me: Strip down and attempted to repair #MicroServer MS03 Install #Proxmox on three MicroServers Tidy and organise all cabling at the back of the cabinet Factory-reset the #Netgear #firewall…
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My HP N54L MicroServer with TrueNAS is about 14 years old. As are the HDDs in it. It'll happily do ~90 MB/sec transfers on my Gigabit network as much as I ask it to. Pretty awesome if you think about it.
J'ai été confronté a un problème de lenteur lors de l'installation de Proxmox 8 via iLO sur un HP MicroServer Gen 8. Je vous montre comment remédier a ce problème. Il devrait être présent sur la plupart des OS récent (Debian 12). Bonne lecture !!
Мой сервер бэкапов
Дошли наконец-то руки сделать персональный сервер бэкапов, который будет стоять не у меня дома. С этой мыслью я уже несколько лет хожу, делал несколько подходов, но вот наконец-то звёзды сошлись — у меня и железка под него образовалась, и дисков в достаточном количестве, и ОС наконец-то более-менее подобрал. В качестве железа выбрал старенький HP Microserver Gen7. Продавать большого смысла не видел, куда-то в продакшн ставить тоже — он почти на любой чих под 100% загружается, если какие-то сервисы вешать или просто в несколько потоков файлы по гигабитной сети копировать. А вот с простым хранением файлов он ещё справится.
Boot times are SLOW (fine if it's on all the time, but not great if you're maintaining it). It currently has no hardware transcoding, and adding it is a pain. I want to add another drive (plan is for 4x HDD in RAID10 and 2x SSD in RAID1), but I'll need an HBA. If you don't want to boot off one of the main four SATA ports (where my RAID10 is) you have to do this weird setup where you put the bootloader on a USB stick or microSD card and then point it to another drive...
In other non-Psion projects, I really need to get on with rebuilding my home server.
I'm pretty settled on giving #FreeBSD a go for the first time (although I might revisit #microOS). The question is the hardware.
I've had a Gen8 #Microserver since new. The case size is perfect. It's had various mods: fan and controller, Ivy Bridge CPU, Noctua CPU cooler, PicoPSU. The PicoPSU has really improved power consumption over the stock PSU. Having an iLO is really handy, too.
However, has its issues.
For those who're interested, perhaps @withaveeay and @david, my Fediverse server is a Linux container running on a quad-core Intel N100 micro-server (see picture).
It's running Proxmox VE, currently with 4 LXC containers (including a GoToSocial server and a mail relay) and a full VM which is just acting as a docker host for a single docker container.
It uses about 9.5W at the wall when idle, blipping to 10.5W, and 15W when maxed out. The processor has a 6W TDP. The fan is usually off, and only comes on after a prolonged period of stress (once the case gets hot, it tends to stay hot), and it's pretty much silent. It could use a bit less power, but for some reason I felt the need to put 32GB of RAM in it, which currently is about 28GB more than I actually need 🤣
No more VPS
https://cdn.marcin-lis.pl/2024/06/5451985.jpg
A little of history
For a really long time I was using Contabo VPS as my main server. I was really happy with it. Good thing was, I bought it long time ago, before changes in packages, so I had few cores more then you may have right now for the same price. Similar story was with system memory. Ok, disk storage was lower then you will get now, […]
#hp #microserver #server #service #technology #vps #web #www
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А вот причина, по которой пришлось ставить софтовый роутер. Красивое!
Не смог пройти мимо бесплатного (чашка кофе), но неуправляемого, штатного свича.
Все ещё думаю, не поставить ли видюху для эмпирион галактик в кооперативе. Но надо будет через впс прокидывать, напрямую выставлять на общее обозрение не хочу. Второй вариант, это всунуть туда 410 райд контроллер он пошустрее штатного.
Kurze Frage an die #opensource und #openstack bubble:
Ich möchte #openstack kennenlernen und versuche herauszufinden, mit welcher Hardware ich ein entsprechendes #homeserver Projekt starten könnte.
- #raspberrypi ist zuhauf vorhanden (aber zu schwachbrüstig?)
- ein paar alte #nuc und #hp #microserver ebenfalls.
Sonst irgendwelche Alternativen bzw. sinnvolle Ergänzungen?
I recently replaced my 10 year old HP #MicroServer Gen8 (Xeon E3-1230 V2) by a new "Gen10 v2 plus" (Xeon E-2314).
Similar performance, same power consumption.
Pro: more silent (probably due to new fans), could upgrade to 64GiB RAM now.
So, the "Gen10 v2 plus" (great name, btw.!) is not worth the money. (except if you are afraid, your current Gen8 might die of old age, soon).
Fuck! The health led on my #HP Proliant #Microserver is red 🟥
I guess, I am not testing my backup today.
crying in sysadmin
Lilbits: Humane’s wearable Ai Pin, Google’s next foldable, and a cheap micro server with speedy wired connectivity #Ai, #Google, #GoogleComet, #Humane, #HumaneAiPin, #Lilbits, #MicroServer, #PalmshellNextH2, #PixelBudsPro, #PixelFold, #Ubports, #UbuntuTouch
PALMSHELL NeXT H2 is a "micro server," or a compact computer with a $199 starting price and two 10 GbE SFP+ cages, a 2.5 GbE RJ45 jack, optional WiFi, up to 32GB RAM and 512GB NVMe storage, and a Ryzen R1505G chip (its weakest link). https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/09/30/palmshell-next-h2-sbc-micro-server-10gbe-networking/ #PalmshellNextH2 #MicroServer #MiniPC #
After 60 hours of stresstest/validation using `badblocks`, I can finally shuck them and put them in my #microserver !
Meet my new 20TB #ZFS mirror :shibahearteyes:
Today is #storage day 🤩
Waiting for a read+write pass of `badblocks` to finish, before #shucking them and putting them into the #microserver gen8 👌
(forgot the picture in my first toot)
At our #datacenter we provide #microserver #hosting by #virtual #lxc #container. Just define the #specs of #container and #login.
