Between job and kids.. I never have time to make things the way I want them. Some examples include: - have only installed 1 out of 3 or 4 waps I already purchased - finally installed the drives in my nas but haven’t had time to set up shares - miraculously purchased a mini pc, and got proxmox up and running. Even had a k3s cluster running in there but my backups weren’t set up so I eventually borked it. - installed the patch panel but still have to terminate the cat6 setup for poe cameras that are just sitting there. I did install the doorbell camera though and a handful of wifi cameras - need to automate lights more

The list goes on much longer. Maybe it’s one of those things that just moves slow or is never really done.

Hello everyone,

I'm looking to build a new system with around 32 cores and 64 threads because I need a lot of processing power and memory for my virtualization needs. I'm using Windows 11 and plan to keep upgrading my system over time. Since I'm new to this, please bear with me.

I plan to run a large number of virtual machines, each running only one software application on every Hyper-V VM. In my current setup, I have an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X with 64GB of memory. Each VM is allocated 3 CPU cores and 5GB of memory, and the usage is about 10% CPU and 50% memory per VM.

Given my requirements and desire to upgrade my system over time, should I go with a Threadripper or an AMD EPYC processor for Hyper-V virtualization on Windows 11? Any advice or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Note: I am aiming to get 196GB of memory and continue upgrading from there.

Hi I've recently got interested in PTP, planning to buy a GPS card + intel NIC to sync my time straight from GPS just for fun.

But I've got question, is there any use case for such precise time sync in normal home lab environment or any demos/labs/cool demonstration that require that level of precision?

In many videos media streaming is mentioned but for example snapcast that i am using, handles time sync by itself.

Hi guys and gals, I have been toying around with the idea of a home lab for the past year. Does anyone have any good information or tutorials on how to start up a home lab with room for progression later on? I have looked at YT Videos but I don't know a huge amount in regards to the below and would appreciate any and all help you are willing to offer up.

I would like a home lab for learning about Networking, Virtual Machines and Media Servers as well as using it as a Steam Cache and to create a more secure internet network.

I know about of people talk about Linux but I have very little exposure to it at work and have only used Linux on my steam deck in desktop mode.

Hello friends,

I am looking to build a homelab primarily to expand on network engineering skills and potentially a bit of devops stuff. My girlfriend is looking to switch phones and she just HAS to keep every single photo from her 1TB iPhone so I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to start building a homelab. With so many different ideas, videos, and resources around, I thought it would be best to just let you guys help me decide on what software to go with.

The plan is to have multiple older laptops (3 atm, 1 desktop, and a few old chromebooks if they could serve any purpose) with some flavor of Linux installed be chained together into a couple switches to be used as a private NAS that we will be able to access remotely. I've went ahead and bought a 12TB drive that I'll just move the photos over to for now but I was wondering what would be the best solution for this and what software you guys would suggest including the Linux OS's. I'm not overly proficient in anything but have foundational knowledge in most things to the point where I can figure most of the stuff out with a little bit of time. I've looked into TrueNAS and NextCloud but I'm just not sure if it needs to be that heavy or not. I'd also like one of the laptops to potentially but used as the controller for the whole operation. Anyways, I appreciate any help you can provide.

I've been running a T710 for a few years now with Proxmox, mainly it has been my media hub (Plex/Sonarr/Radarr/etc.), but I've been trying to expand it for a while now, adding WireGuard for remote access/VPN, HAOS, PiHole, and the latest thing I've been trying is getting OSX working on it (I've never used OSX and like the idea of having a VM available whenever I want to remote into to use). Just got OSX working today, but I've noticed it is pretty slow, when doing menial things (minimizing windows takes a minute, some web pages just make it lock up, etc). I chalked it up to just OSX on Proxmox, but thinking about it, it seems like a majority of my VMs have been somewhat slowing down for a while now, not as quick on start up, lagging at random intervals, etc.

Just wondering if anyone has any recommended upgrades for it. Currently:

-150GB samsung SSD runs the Proxmox OS

-2x Xeon E5645 @ 2.40 GHz

-96 GB RAM

-2TB Dell HDDs

Hi everyone,

At the Moment I use a small self built NAs based on a N100 and I am really happy. See the Build here: https://www.reddit.com/r/FormD/comments/1cy7724/formd_t1_v21_homeserver_nas/

Now with the Release of TrueNAS 24.10 i want to go full SSD, because the setup will live in my living room and I hate the fact that every once in a while the HDDs spin up. Second thing is I want to have the Chance to for more than two disks/ssds.

So I‘m thinking about two Setups:

1. Another N100:
2. ASUS Prime N100I-D D4
3. 32GB RAM
4. Corsair SF750
5. m.2 to 6Port SATA Adapter
6. 2x 4TB SATA SSD
7. 1x 256 or 500GB SATA SSD for truenas
8. 3 SATA Ports Left for possible upgrades

9. all together in my much loved FormD-T1

10. Go for tiny PC

11. Lenovo M920q with Intel Core i5-8500T

12. 32GB RAM

13. small NVME in the wifi Slot for OS

14. solder-in the second nvme Port on the bottom

15. do the bigurcation-Mod for another two nvme slots: https://github.com/badger707/m920q-pcie-bifurcation

Which setup would you prefer? And why?

I have VCSA running as a Hyper-V guest on my Windows 11 desktop.^{(Broadcom investors hate him!!!}) For me (at least) this is kind of a big deal as it gets vCenter out of my lone ESXi host. Not being able to use vCenter to fully work on my host because it's running the damned vCenter has been a major PITA.

I want to jot down how I got it working, Only I'm not 100% sure of, uh, precisely what made it work. I've been poking at this off-and-on for a few days in my spare time. My Linux skills are somewhere between will break your system in short order and don't give him anything sharp.

Can someone please run find / -name hv_* and let me know if any of the Hyper-V kernel modules are present on your VCSA? I'm particularly interested in hv_storvsc.ko.xz and hv_netvsc.ko.xz which would be under /usr/lib/modules/<ver no>/kernel/drivers.

If the above is affirmative, can you please also run lsinitrd | grep hv and see if your initrd contains any Hyper-V shit? If so, are the above two modules in there?