At $800 the HL15 with backplane was a stretch. At $900 I think the price is untenable. Who has one? Is it worth it? Is the Sliger CX4712 a reasonable alternative?

As the title says, the NAS will have about 2-3TB of usable data, in a GBit lan network, and will only be used as NFS/SAMBA storage. I am already using another pc for hosting my VMs and LXCs. My only consideration is if the CPU is up to this task: Specs im thinking of are the following:

• ASRock J3455-ITX SoC Motherboard Mini ITX
• 16GB ram
• Use the m2 for bootdrive and 4 sata for disks
• maybe ad an nvme drive or a second Gbit lan on the pci-e

Noob here, I have purchased an r730 and have anHBA330 card in it. I have tried many settings in the bios but the closest i can get is the bios sees all drives and Unraid can see the drives but cannot get the info from them (size) when I try to set up an array they are not listed on the drop down but are listed as a scsi device..

I am completely new to unraid. thanks for any input

Hey all,

I'm after a 2.5gbe 8-port PoE switch unmanaged.

I don't want to break the bank, it will just be used for home purposes - I have found some Chinese branded switches on Amazon and AliExpress, just getting lost in the mix and not knowing which one I should go for.

I'm in Australia if that helps..

Thanks in advance!

I'm building two servers with 3900x CPUs, I want them without GPU.
The first rig is with Gigabyte x470 Aorus mb with the latest bios, I installed system while connected a GPU, fixed bios settings, after that removed GPU and all is good, it boots without any gpu and I connect via SSH.
Another rig, with Asus TUF x570 mb, I updated bios as well, doing same, but it refuses to boot without a GPU.
Once somehow it booted without but that was all, I'm unable to boot it, even setting "wait for f1 when error" to false.
Can anyone help? couldn't find an option in the bios to disable gpu/vga

Hello everyone, I’m diving into a new hobby and could use some guidance from this community. I’ve set up a few Docker containers, each within its own VM. While this was straightforward, each VM consumes a lot of RAM—at least 1GB each. Even then, the Ubuntu installer runs significantly faster with 2GB. For a homelab setup, it seems more efficient to have a single host running Portainer. What potential pain points should I be aware of? I’m still getting the hang of Docker. For instance, with Paperless-ngx, I mapped my NAS using fstab. I read that this method might lead to data loss if the container is killed, as opposed to mapping the volume in the Docker Compose file. This makes me a bit nervous. Also, should my host have a separate user for each container? Thanks in advance for your help!

Conclusions: - Use proxmox as hypervisor. Use tteck scripts for post-install & lxc setup - Approach 1: Create a single lcx container for each docker container for easier backups/reverting. Everything is isolated and and it takes fewer clicks to revert or backup. Since the path of isolation has been chosen, it might be wise to convert your docker containers into straight Lxc containers without docker. - Approach 2: Create a single lxc container for all docker containers. Take backups of each config folder. They can all be run under a single user for a homelab situation, but not root.

Hi,

i want to setup a SIEM in a home lab with like 3 VMs to test out Threat detection and what can be done to protect the machines from malware etc. for my bachelor thesis.

I havent setup a home lab before - so i dont have advanced knowledge.

Right now i already setup Microsoft Sentinel and Elastic but the sheer amount of things you can/have to do in Sentinel seems very overwhelming and the setup of own VMs compared to the azure vms also seems like a LOT of work get it to work or pay the money for the azure vms. On the other side, ive heard that Elastic is a good start to learn about SIEMs, but its also really difficult to setup without Experience, but i could use my own VirtualBox VMs way easier.

What SIEM would you recommend a beginner to do what i want to do? Have you any sources/tipps for creating this?

thanks in advance,

Br

I work for a small ISP, and they've previously installed Wisenet cameras for our location. I’m tasked with installing the Wisenet desktop viewer software on the manager’s PC. Before I proceed, I want to ensure that it’s safe to download and use. Has anyone here worked with Wisenet software before? Is it generally secure and reliable, or should I take any extra precautions when installing it on a work computer? To me it looks like a garbage product and software compared to newer camera systems so I'm wondering if there was an easy way to isolate the software inside a vm that can't touch anything else and is easy to access or if I could try to make them work with Blueiris.

I'm looking to add LFF drives to a SFF DL380p without having to buy a new DL380p LFF chassis (they seem to be unobtainium anyway). Thanks for the help!

Edit: Also it'd be really nice if you could explain to me how they connect to my server and which additional hardware it requires.