I took time off of work! Why not spend a holiday from computer work doing… more…… computer, work… o_o
20240907, day 21
What better way to succeed in homelab than, turning it off?
I’ve wanted to rewire it for a long time
It won’t be perfect (and is still turned off while i figure out the 10Gb) but somethings’ something.
*also the servers didn’t come with the management swingarms Fight me
20240908, day 22
Need to run a new backhaul; going to try sticking it to the drop ceiling with these cool lil clips. Also: got the 3d printer going
*actually found & printed clips even better than those later
Tested & updated these little buddies, and updated all other Mtk. Takes a while when they are behind a major
I got this R710 for free, just wondering if it’s worth using. The out of band management doesn’t seem to be working and if the storage can’t be set for IT i’m not sure i’ll bother
20240909, Day 23
Switched over to Mikrotik switches, the prior era network is offline. Here it is, it served me well.
20240910, Day 24
Ordered more fiber optic because i goofed up the backhaul a little….
An order of radioactive material came in but that’s neither here nor there.
Booked therapy in case I lose my mind. Signed up to volunteer at the animal rescue center in case the therapy doesn’t help.
Fooling around with the R710 more. Fixed the iDRAC, replaced CMOS battery. It’s going to need every firmware updated, and some kind of boot disk bought and installed. Biggest problem though is getting the RAID card into IT mode, there’s cheat around that but not desired. Nonetheless I got it booting into Proxmox install, so it does that at least.
Speaking of Proxmox, I turned the cluster back on, created a few VM’s and made a whole new cluster in VM.
Updating those little buddies
Tada a cluster
Oh no i guess this is why i don’t get integrator work
Anyway the whole point is just to have a safe place to try clicking this
20240911, Day 25
Still messing around with getting the R710 to go. It might be eBay to the rescue for storage controller and NICs.
What oh what for an IT mode card that would fit these internal SAS…
I’m too fried to explore Ceph, so I got Docker going on the cluster and installed Dashy. I like it.
20240912, Day 26
3D printer stuff this morning. But Homelab tho? I mean kinda, I really want to make custom cable hanger clips.
PrusaSlicer on Ubuntu broke my brain so i resorted to using a Windows box to upgrade firmware…
Tried OnShape. The new firmware has some odd behaviors to figure out but i managed to make and print a test part. It’s been a while since i used the printer for stuff besides brackets and toys from Thingiverse, but now is the time, to put this indispensable tool back to productive use.
Hey, what is this?
Also picked up some boot storage for the R710.
Had to wrap things up in the morning as i had a side gig
20240913, Day 27, Friday the 13th and i got killed by a PowerEdge
“Make system bootable”, the installer said, while lying.
I got a 256GB NVME installed in the R710 in my continued errant journey to get it running. Got passed a boot problem by using PVE 8.1 installer. Everything recognizes and installs to the NVME I think i’m hung up on UEFI problem. iDRAC and BIOS still need updating, so there’s that to try.
20240914, Day 28
Pwned by R710. Nice: now i’ve got two operating systems stuck in there
Parked that, turned on Dark Reader, kick up the font size and power through Mtk’s TCP/IP Fundamentals
20240915, Day29
If this is the Season of the Witch, the R710 is my succubus. I messed with it some more today and just curbed it until I have other things further along or if a better host shows up first. The BIOS update facilities are not working well, and it’s such a drag working on boot problems when every time a restart is needed you just blew five minutes.
Installed Ceph in that virtual PVE, got it to go. Made a pool and installing Ubuntu. Back to work tomorrow, play time is over~
