The original post: /r/homelab by /u/OctoSled on 2024-09-08 00:33:40.

Hi Reddit!

I'm comparing a few sub-$1k 100GbE switches and would love to hear from you all about any gotchas for them (feel free to recommend other ones also!)

Basic requirements: at least 16 QSFP28 ports, MLAG support

So far, I've found:

• Cisco Nexus 9236C
• Juniper QFX5200
• Dell Z9100-ON

(The Celestica DX010 is much cheaper but excluded as it looks like there are software issues with newer builds of SONIC, and I'd rather not fiddle with software on my switch at least for now.)

Thanks!

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The original post: /r/homelab by /u/karnac01 on 2024-09-07 22:59:50.

Hello Homelab community,

I recently purchased Dell R730xd 24SFF with 2 SFF in the back. Each drives are 1.2TB. The plan is to install XCP-NG and run passthru on all 26 SFF drives to TrueNAS VM (maximize storage). Hopefully looking at approx 29TB on ZRAID-2. I also plan to run several other VMs for my Homelab as well. I like to install Pci-e with either dual or quad (preferred) M.2 NVMe drives. One m.2 to boot the XCP-NG OS, and three as datastores for VMs.

For M.2 drives I was thinking 2x 256GB for OS and 2x or more either 1TB or 2TB (using multiple PCiE cards) as datastores for VMs.

My question is has anyone used Dell 6N9RH Ultra Speed Drive Quad NVMe m.2 PCIe x16 Card and what their experience they had using it. Have you used two PCiE cards? Any issues using the card? RAID setup (either hardware or software)?

Also anyone recommend another type card and compatible M2 NVMe drives?

I am also looking for other recommendations setup types. Thanks everyone.

The original post: /r/homelab by /u/Kamrooz on 2024-09-07 22:47:53.

Anyone ever come across an HBA that finishes smart short and long tests instantly? Well...30 seconds to be accurate, then says successfully passed. All smart information is being passed through, and can read it all. But when running short or extended tests, they instantly finish after 30 seconds. Plugged my drives back into my mobo's sata ports, and was able to run short and extended tests as normal with no issue. Running windows btw atm for all of this, as I'm prepping and testing these drives before migrating them into my truenas environment.

Just got my hands on this 9305-16i. Had issues getting sas3flsh.exe to recognize the card. Constant failed to initialize PAL errors, even when running in legacy mode. Windows variant of sas3flash however worked, and was able to erase and flash firmware with no problems. Verified the firmware is indeed the latest, sas id as normal....Card is functioning perfectly fine...Just this odd smart test issue. Using Hard Disk Sentinel btw....

Any advice or comments would be appreciated, left scratching my head at this issue.

The original post: /r/homelab by /u/AcceptableMonk6008 on 2024-09-07 22:38:50.

Hi Everyone -

I recently migrated two LTO 8 SAS drives from separate desktop cases (Thudnerbolt 3) into a 1U Rackmount (IBM 7226 Chasis I got on eBay)) Besides the PSU & associated cables (4pin molex) the case was empty.

So I purchased a simple SAS adapter card to go in the case (https://a.co/d/fxxksVq)

I purchased an SFF 8643 fan cable (1 SFF8643 to 4 SAS8482 each with a 4pin molex (https://a.co/d/dyqKBhL) and connected two ends of the fan to the LTO drives + a molex to each drive. I then verified that each drive was getting proper power and spun up.

I'm connecting to a computer via an optical SFF 8643 to SFF8643 cable (https://a.co/d/5ouZOoN) since the run from the drives to the computer is about 20M. The HBA in the computer is an ATTO 1280GT 12GB SAS card.

The computer sees the HBA card no problems and has proper drivers, the card also sees the optical cable but I can't see either of the LTO drives.

My hope was that I could have both drives connected via a single external connection to the computer (hence the fan cable) and it's my understanding that SAS can be multi-channel.

However, I'm wondering if the fan cable is the issue and I need each drive to have its own connection to the adapter and then to the HBA or maybe a wonky adapter card in the case?

I removed the cable being the issue as I tested a different SAS device with it and the HBA and worked fine.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

The original post: /r/homelab by /u/LeoTecno_ on 2024-09-07 22:28:15.

Hi guys, I have an old r410 with a dual Xeon X5650 and 32gb of RAM. Is it still valid in 2024 with proxmox installed to do some experiments? (Maybe a Minecraft server or something)

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The original post: /r/homelab by /u/tryingtolearn1991 on 2024-09-07 18:43:54.

Hi all,

I'm looking to get an elitedesk for my proxmox setup. I'm planning on running the following in the proxmox:

• Home Assistant
• Influxdb and grafana?
• some network monitoring containers (uptime kuma, duckdns, tailscale etc]
• Frigate [with 2-4 cameras, thinking of getting coral tpu]
• Paperless-ngx
• Calibre
• Testing out [Bitwarde/Snipe-IT]

I've looked through some deals at my country. Elitedesks seems to be the better choice here [higher PSU, more RAM slot & capacity, more drive bays]. I have 2 PC choices [Both about 184USD equivalent, 8GB ram and 256GB SSD].

• HP EliteDesk 800 G2 SFF 6th gen i7 [1 year warranty]
• HP EliteDesk 800 G4 SFF 8th gen i5 [6 months warranty]

1. Would an i7 6th gen be sufficient enough? or should i consider getting the i5 8th gen first, then upgrade to an i7 down the line?
2. Would the 6 cores available be enough for the above?
3. Lastly, does most elitedesk/optiplex etc come with warranty? The 2 PC i listed is at ~USD184 with 1 year warranty. I could go for other cheaper option as there are few with 3-6 months warranty option.

Thanks.

The original post: /r/homelab by /u/AlkaizerLord on 2024-09-07 18:41:25.

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The original post: /r/homelab by /u/Inside-Masterpiece-7 on 2024-09-07 12:47:22.

Just noticed the unit has a msata port.

So wondering if there is a expansion control card with 3 or more sata ports that can be used. Thinking to run the cables from the 3070 micro pc to the drives store in my PC case. The pc case has plenty of space. Looking to sit the 3070 on the top of the pc with the cables runing his the empty pc expansion card slots Then I don't need a raspberry pi 5. Or do I abandon this idea and just insert additional SSD storage and use a raspberry pi 5 with a 5 port expansion card to the use the pc space with the drives.

My next question would be do I use proxmox on the dell Optiplex and the raspberry pi 5 im not sure...can you use unraid or truenas

The original post: /r/homelab by /u/discop3t3 on 2024-09-07 11:17:21.

So here's latest version of the lab

https://preview.redd.it/ybn8qhieadnd1.jpg?width=2486&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=916bd994358ddec8d4044e8dddf25958abf29820

Brush panel

PDU

Patch panel #1

TP-Link 24-Port Unmanaged Gigabit Ethernet Switch

Patch panel #2 (i have two because i dont link patch cables streching across the rack, mine run vertical)

Vented "Smart Shelf" for Hive Hub and Hue Hub

Dell R210ii

• Intel Core i3-2100 CPU @ 3.10GHz, 16GB DDR3 ECC, 2x WD 240GB SSD's for O/S, 2TB Samsung HDD for "mass" storage, IDrac6
• Original first server for Windows and ESXI trials, soon upgraded to the R220
• Still a trials box for things like Pi-Hole (now virtualised) but always nice to have some lower powered tin ready to spin up

Dell R220

• Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3 @ 3.10GHz, 32GB DDR3 ECC, 2x WD 256GB SSD's for O/S, 2TB Dell HDD for "mass" storage, IDrac 7
• R210ii replacement, was ESXi host for some time before finally moving on to the R620
• Might make it a secondary Proxmox node eventually, but has limited specs

My only free U with a mesh panel over it

Dell R620

• Dual Intel Xeon E5-2680 @ 2.70GHz, 256GB DDR3 ECC, 2x 256Gb Intel SSD for O/S, 2x Samsung 256GB SSD for VM's, 6x Dell SAS HDD's totalling 1.6TB for mass storage.
• The mother server, was ESXi now Proxmox, runs all my services like Pi-Hole, HA, leech box, Plex, test VM's.

HP N54L

• AMD Turion(tm) II Neo N54L, 16Gb DDR3 ECC, 2x WD Red 3TB, 2x WD Red 6TB, both pairs in mirror
• TrueNas Core #1, primary NAS

HP N54L

• AMD Turion(tm) II Neo N54L, 16Gb DDR3 ECC, 1x WD Red 4TB, 2x WD Red 8TB in mirror
• TrueNas Core #2 Secondary NAS and Vault backup for Proxmox, critical stuff and cloud backup

Junk drawer #1

Jusk drawer #2

Govee LED light strip provides the ambience.

The original post: /r/homelab by /u/TurboBerries on 2024-09-07 08:17:42.

First time doing any home networking and im curious to learn how i could secure, manage and isolate multiple servers at home.

Im working on a design where ill have a media/plex server, storage server, backup server, security system server, steam link & bluestacks dedicated machine.

I would want to be able to access some of these securely on public networks like public wifi or cell networks via my phone. I would also want to manage which devices on my network have access to which server or which directories in a server. I have a primary pc i use that i want to have secure access to all servers but be able to isolate and protect each one if one of them were infected with malware. I also have work laptops that are on my network but i dont want those to have any access or visibility to other servers/devices on my network.

The original post: /r/homelab by /u/opositewalker on 2024-09-07 12:02:44.

Hi Guys,

I have a fresh bare metal Proxmox installation. Nothing installed on it, no VM's, containers, etc.

I do not understand why my CPU C-state does not stay let's say 90% time at C8.

* ASPM and all required settings are enabled in BIOS

* Nothing connected to the server (no USB devices)

* Powertop is configured

Can you help me identify what is causing these spikes

https://imgur.com/a/H5zRU0O

The original post: /r/homelab by /u/dcatvn on 2024-09-07 11:28:57.

Hi guys,

I recently upgraded my switch to mercury SE109. I want to use the 10G sfp+ port, but my unraid server doesn’t have sfp+ card. Which card can I use and what cables to get to connect them?

Thanks for your help

The original post: /r/homelab by /u/DaCringyLemon on 2024-09-07 10:38:15.

I edit YouTube videos for someone on the other side of the country to me, so we have always struggled to get footage across from his PC to mine. Recently, I have bought myself a better PC to run my homelab on, rather than my old Pi4b. So, I figured that now would be the perfect time to finally figure out how to get large video files across.

Currently, I have Pingvin Share set up as a way to do this - although it isn't great as he has to upload the file to the server then I have to download it to my PC. What I really want to be able to do, is for him to upload the video files to a USB dongle attached to my server PC, which I can then take out and put in to my PC to transfer the files across easily.

What is the recommended way to go about doing this? Bear in mind, security is quite an important part of this; I would want some sort of 2FA set up, or something of a similar security level, so the uploading of files is restricted and so that some random person on the internet isn't able to upload files.

Thanks in advance for your advice!

(if it helps, my server PC is a dell optiplex 3050 micro, with 12GB RAM installed (yeah ik its cursed but it is how it is)

The original post: /r/homelab by /u/Mailootje on 2024-09-07 08:59:29.

The server will perform the following tasks: act as a server, provide storage (SMB preferred), run Linux programs, Docker containers, the NGINX web server, Plex, and more.

I really want to be able to run Linux applications, etc. It's a kind of all-rounder.

Total drives: 24x SATA/SAS Preferred RAID 6 (due to 2 standby drives)

What should I choose?

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The original post: /r/homelab by /u/Ambitious_Estate_843 on 2024-09-07 07:43:35.

Hello, I am desperatley looking for IOS version 03.08.09 or above, Current version is 03.08.07.

I don't have a support contract to download from CISCO.

Can someone kindly help me please.

Thank you

The original post: /r/homelab by /u/Y2K_350 on 2024-09-07 07:33:36.

Hey everyone,

I recently purchased 6 22tb SAS drives. All, but 1 of them show up as incompatible according to 3 different HBAs. All HBAs are flashed to IT mode. All 6 drives normally appear in the operating system, but only one of them appears with a file size of 22tb, the rest show 0 bytes and cannot be formatted or initialized. The 6 drives all came in one shipment, they are the same model number, and were even all manufactured on the same day according to the labels, they also run the same firmware.

Is there any way I can save these 5 drives or should I consider them a total loss?