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Homelab

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Is Harvester a good hypervisor for a beginner? My hands-on experience

May 11, 202310 min read

Are you trying to find a hypervisor type 1 for your homelab? Harvester might be an interesting choice. · When I notice there are old computers collecting...

Is Harvester a good hypervisor for a beginner? My hands-on experience

Deploy a virtualized OpenWRT firewall in Harvester, how did it go?

Jun 19, 202315 min read

I decided to virtualize my infrastructure, and the first step was to put my OpenWRT firewall into the Harvester cluster. · In my previous article, Is...

Deploy a virtualized OpenWRT firewall in Harvester, how did it go?

Virtualize TrueNAS with Harvester (and Kubevirt for VM management)

Jul 5, 202311 min read

TrueNAS and Harvester HCI (with Kubevirt for VM management), will they be a good combination? · Virtualizing TrueNAS has been a common theme in the...

Virtualize TrueNAS with Harvester (and Kubevirt for VM management)

CenturyLink, affordable, but bad customer service and uptime

Sep 7, 202316 min read

For my homelab, I have been a CenturyLink customer for a few months. Their customer service quality is ... worth a rant. · As a new CenturyLink customer,...

CenturyLink, affordable, but bad customer service and uptime

Production-ready? What to do?

Dec 28, 202311 min read

To reach a production environment, many items that may be out of a developer's scope have to be reviewed. Here is my checklist for easy reference. · The...

Production-ready? What to do?

Using external SSD for ZFS pool, an experiment

Mar 2, 202410 min read

Can an SSD in an external NVME USB enclosure be a part of a ZFS pool? · While experimenting with the storage configuration of my Proxmox node in my...

Using external SSD for ZFS pool, an experiment