Thought about asking this in r/HomeNetworking but I'm asking in this from more of the homelab POV.

So I have the usual suspects of services running in a homelab, cloudflared, VPN, Arrs, plex, jellyfin, HA, torrenting.

What are the cool/fancy/useful/unexpected things I can do now with ipv6 fully supported?

Im pretty new to personal servers and planning to make one from an old pc spare parts I have. I have heard that having two things run on 1 server is not recomended, but mostly just want to get into making/understanding servers. I would like it to run modded minecraft server with 5 people and host a personal website. What would be your recomendations for a cpu?

Also im all ears to any tips about to what look into before building one and configuring it.

To begin my homelab journey I'm converting an old windows desktop I got from work into a NAS. I picked up a couple of 6tb drives but didn't realize they were SAS at the time. So I got a lsi 9211 8i HBA to use the drives via PCIe, but it only came with mini sas to sata cables. So would just like to consult here before spending more money to get these drives to work. Wish I would have paid more attention initially and I could have used this extra money on larger sata drives. But oh well.

Can anyone confirm if this is what I need?

https://www.amazon.com/AdcAudx-Mini-SAS-SAS-Cable-Internal-SATA-Power/dp/B09Q33F8JD/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=ioY5N&content-id=amzn1.sym.255b3518-6e7f-495c-8611-30a58648072e%3Aamzn1.symc.a68f4ca3-28dc-4388-a2cf-24672c480d8f&pf_rd_p=255b3518-6e7f-495c-8611-30a58648072e&pf_rd_r=AB6EG0VVXD4XSXA89YKY&pd_rd_wg=8bglJ&pd_rd_r=b36c1fc9-35f9-4435-805b-04982c18dbfc&ref_=pd_hp_d_atf_ci_mcx_mr_ca_hp_atf_d&th=1

I have a 2 node pi4 cluster that i had been running, i wanted to replace this cluster with a better solution, but i require the same footprint and hardware easyness....

i had been running kubernetes and some workloads on this cluster for 2 years. i had been using sd cards it has worked very well for me (didnt burn any sd card yet!)

i need theese requirements:

• no noise. (my pi4 fans only turn on hot days, they work very well with passive cooling)
• smallest as possible (no rack or a normal pc case)
• 2+ drives per system
• nvme native support (sata ssd is fine, but i don't want to use usb adaptors or other external stuff)
• No "uncommon architecture" (the easyness of trying out every distro i find for arm and software support on the rpi4 was a major point)

the pi4+ is great but lacking nvme (or even sata) support natively is my biggest reason to look elsewhere, (i need better and faster storage)

I had been looking for stuff like the sinology NASes like the DS223, however, it has a realtek cpu which i am afraid to waste money to find out i will be very limited in terms of software, and it work as a nas but no general homelab stuff...

Hi

I'm searching a NAS solution, which does not really have much bloat, and has straight forward user/permission management and is installable on a headless Linux Container (LXC).

Currently I use openmediavault as a VM on my big proxmox cluster as a NAS, with a passed through SSD.

Not ideal, but good enough for me.

What I don't like about openmediavault:

- It needs to run as VM and not via LXC possible

- It is quite ressource heavy

- It offers many features which are just bloat to me

- Permission system is really annoying to deal with.

- Every goddam little change needs not only saving but also seperately pressing apply every time...

What I'd wish from a NAS Software:

- Leightweight

- More intuitive/simple permission system (really :D)

- nice webui

- creating smb/nfs shares

I looked into TrueNAS, where the permission systems seems better than on OMV, though still not optimal, and TrueNAS is a whole nas solution, including things like docker etc. I just don't need that, as I have my proxmox cluster.

Thanks for any suggestions !

Edit: I could settle for a VM, if it's a lightweight one, if the lxc requirement is too limiting.

Hello everyone

I recently caved as it was black friday and so now I have a Lanberg 10Inch 9u rack, two shelves, rack studs and a patch panel on the way. I already have the switch and other gear going into the rack.

In September, I build myself a new PC which left me with an older but still usable AMD A10 APU, 12GB of RAM and the motherboard. I want to find a purpose for this hardware but i’m not sure if they make any server rack cases for Micro ATX and only make mini-ATX?

If anyone knows of a way to do this, please let me know.

Thanks

Short version: can I hot swap the PSU in a dual PSU Intel p4000 case?

I've got an old Intel p4000 rack case with 2x 750w PSUs. Just recently, I've been getting warnings about predictive PSU failure in the system logs. I replaced one a few months ago and I honestly don't know how old they are to begin with, but I had the machine apart so it wasn't a hot swap at the time.

Since I already know which PSU to pull, I was considering a hot swap to avoid downtime. Is it possible? Downtime won't actually be an issue, I just wanted to know if it's acceptable to do a hot swap.

Yes, I know this is ancient, but it's what I've got and it works. Power consumption isn't the worst and it barely affects my electric bill, so am upgrade to more modern components is a big spend compared to power savings, and I'm not running anything crazy resource hungry. Self hosted Linux ISOs and a way to access them, Home Assistant, a Minecraft server for the kids, and nginx for them to invite friends to the server