I haven’t updated my blog..<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Lots has changed in the lab:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now running a cluster of 4-5 Proxmox Servers to play with HA and CEPH, both have been truly eye opening in the way of maintaining 0.99x up time. With this combination I can update them, set one to reboot, watch as it shunts all its HA VMs\/CTs to other systems, reboots and takes them back. no more services down, no more wife\/kids screaming or waiting until the dead of night for updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A note before I continue<\/strong>, these “Servers” the only real server grade is the one I built in Lab runneth over<\/a>, its been upgraded over the years, Dual Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2667 v2 and now 256GB of RAM. The rest are used\/old hand me downs and a repurposed gaming PC I built. You don’t need the best to learn in a home lab. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The cluster also came with a need for 10GB networking, I beta tested the cluster before making the switch to live and the biggest problem I ran into (also the internet long had told me it would be an issue but again beta) was running CEPH over 1GB. Before bringing it live I bought them all 10GB SFP+ nics and a new eight port SFP+ switch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n New switch brought about a completely network design overhaul, Originally it was: Instead I split them: WAN>(1GB E)Router>(10GB SFP+,VLANs 3 and 99)8P SFP+ (Also self containted VLANs 10 and 11*) *The new switch brought about new fun, the beta ran CEPH and Proxmox’s Cluster traffic over my default “Lan” network, Yeah not what I wanted and I also didn’t want the Firewall\/IDS\/IPS anywhere near that traffic to cause any latency after the 1GB test, so they both got their own VLANs that only traverse the SFP+ switch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tied AD to Authentik, originally for giggles after a random youtube video, now everything that can uses it and while having a single SSO solution by its self was awesome, the real magic came when I figure out MFA then shortly after how to use my Yubikey. Now logging into anything is simply: Punch Yubikey pin, touch Yubikey, Done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also a check in from one of other posts where I got Linux tied to AD: Another from the It Bucket list<\/a>, using a combo of that and the above, I have a Debian box tied to AD that I (and a friend who also toys in my lab) can SSO into.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tried out various other projects that I’ll give short blurbs about:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Immich: I like it but it needs a way to stay synced with my Google photos until I’m ready to actually make the switch. Thats it for now, Thanks for reading. I haven’t updated my blog.. Lots has changed in the lab: Now running a cluster of 4-5 Proxmox Servers to play with HA and CEPH, both have been truly eye opening in the way of maintaining 0.99x up time. With this combination I can update them, set one to reboot, watch as it shunts all … Continue reading “Long time..”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firezen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firezen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firezen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firezen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firezen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/firezen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/firezen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firezen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firezen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firezen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
WAN>(1GB E)Router>(10GB SFP+)24\/2P Switch>Everything
And I could have added the new 8 Port SFP+ after the 24\/2P as it had a spare SFP+ port and daisy chained it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WAN>(1GB E)Router>(10GB SFP+,VLANs 1 and 2)24\/2P Switch<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then both switches are linked and pass their respected VLAN’s (*other than 10 and 11) between them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Graphene (Android Rom): Ran it for a month, had Work and Google profiles separated from the “default” got exasperated with the constant profile switching, went back to stock.
Bunch of random AI\/LLM stuff: Things raining from starting with following a tutorial on getting Openwebui started to falling down the rabbit hole of writing python scripts to make an AI sort my mailbox, also N8N.
I know I’m probably missing things, its been a long time since I posted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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