sakphul
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- Comment on cheap remote kvm 1 day ago:
I have one of these on my backup Server. But about 2 out of 5 times the HDMI signal is not detected (after the Backup Server was running for a couple days) and I need to restart the Backupserver to get it working. restarting the JetKVM does not work. In comparison I had none of these issues with a NanoKVM. I don’t know if it is a problem of the JetKVM or the Backup machine.
- Comment on cheap remote kvm 1 day ago:
You could use a NanoKVM together with tailscale: wiki.sipeed.com/hardware/en/kvm/…/tailscale.html
These cost around 60€ (don’t know the dollar price) on Aliexpress (I remember them being a lot cheaper in the past…).
You do not need to use tailscale on the NanoKVM. You could use whatever VPN tooling your router supports to connect to your network and then to the NanoKVM.
P.S. There was fuzz in the past about them including a small microphone that was not documented. Make of that what you want.
- Comment on I'm upgrading from an old pc to a NAS with OMV. What about RAID? 2 days ago:
Do you compartmentalize the disks again, or do you just make different folders?
Yes, when you are not using BTRFS. Due to OMV using ext4 as default you basically create your Raid and then folders/networkshares on top of it.
ZFS on the other hand allows you to create datasets which are separate ZFS filesystem object that can have its own settings (quota, reservations, permissions, etc.). The “same” goes for BTRFS which supports BTRFS subvolumes.
I do not know how well OMV supports BTRFS and how well it is integrated in the overall workflow. Therefor I cannot give a recommendation if it is feasible to use BTRFS on OMV.
- Comment on What is your self hosted power draw? 1 week ago:
Just checked my UPS. It sits at 105W for:
- HP Mini PC
- Synology 4 Bay NAS
- DrayTek Router
- Mikrotik 16 Port Switch
- PoE Switch
- 3 AP’s
- 1 Raspberry Pi 3B
- 2 NanoKVM
- Comment on How do you monitor your servers? 1 week ago:
I am also using Beszel after using checkmk. For me checkmk was way too complicated (but is also way more powerfull) to setup and maintain propperly. So I switcheed to beszel because it is much easier and good enough for my use case which is:
- Is the thing running at all?
- Disk full?
- CPU, network, etc. on full throttle for some strange reason?
- send me a mail if somethings wrong
Besides that I don’t need anything. The only thing missing is SNMP support to check switches, routers and AP’s.
- Comment on Recommendations for self hosted recipe manager 2 weeks ago:
I do cooking on living history events for dozens of people. And creating the shopping list from them (where a recipe is absed on another recipe) is always a painpoint. This sounds versy interesting (never heard of it).
I will give it a try. Thanks for sharing!
- Comment on List for 10” equipment for homelab 5 weeks ago:
My cabinet currently is 9HE high and it can fit 2 mini-pc’s easily and all the rest. Just the NAS does not fit into it. For that I would need at least 12HE.
- Comment on Standalone cameras 5 weeks ago:
Thanks sharing your experience! Does it also support the 2-way Audio of these cameras?
- Comment on List for 10” equipment for homelab 5 weeks ago:
Digitus has a lot to offer for 10" Racks. I use a lot of their Basic stuff for my Racks. AS a Server I am a fan of Mini-PC’s. They are (imho) good enough for SOHO users. For storage an off the shelf NAS is small enough to fit inside the Rack. I did not find a good option yet for a TrueNAS solution (maybe one of the NAS solutions where you flash your own operating system?).
From my 10" homelab:
- Enclosing: Digitus 10" 9HE Wandgehäuse. But today I would get the 12HE version of it (my Homelab expanded beyond the available space)
- Patchfield: Digitus 10" 12 Port LSA Patchpanel Weiß. There are also keystone version if you prefer them. I did go for this because it is cheaper and I only need RJ45.
- Power connector: DIGITUS 10 Zoll Steckdosenleiste. it has 4 sockjets and a switch. I am using 2 of them.
- Shelfs for Servers, etc.: Digitus 10" Fachboden. I use them to keep my Mini-PC’s and router in the Rack.
- Router: Draytek Vigor2927 it just fits on a shelf and all Ports are accessible. It is connected to a Fibre-Modem, so it just being a router is good enough for me.
- Switch: ALLNET Switch smart managed 16 Port Gigabit. Unfortunately I could not find an option including PoE (that is reasonably priced…) so I went for this managed Switch and an extra PoE Switch.
- PoE Switch: YuanLey 11 Port Gigabit PoE Switch, 8 PoE+ Port 1000 Mbit/s, 2 Gigabit Uplink, 1 SFP Port, 120W 802.3af/at. It is not directly obvious from the product page. But the 2 included Rackmount ears work for a 10" Rack.
- Mini-PC as Server: HP EliteDesk 800 G3 Desktop-Mini-PC . You can get these on the used market for cheap. Look if you can find one with an i5-8500T (KabyLake architecture). These chips have very good Transcoding qualities (Quicksync)
- NAS: I use a Synology DS-918+. It fits on a shelf isnide the Rack. but due to Space limitations (9HE instead of 12HE) it is now stacked on top of my Rack.
I don’t know where you are located. So maybe you need to check if these are available to you.
- Comment on Standalone cameras 5 weeks ago:
Didn’t know this existed. Gives the flexibility to choose between different Hardware Vendors.
But do you have any experience on how easy it is to flash this to the Hardware and how good it works?