home lab

Hallo zusammen, aktuell plane ich den Aufbau eines Cluster mit 3 Nodes und Ceph als Storage mit 10G Anbindung. Darauf laufen soll verschiedenes: - div. Windows VMs (DC, FS, IIS etc.) - Linux VMs (Tailscale Router, mehrere Docker VMs, Plex, Loxberry etc. ) - LXC (Cloudflare DDNS, paperless...

Hi I've just got a fancy IPMI card (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09ZJ8DJ9F?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title) - It's a great bit of kit for my homelab. I did have an issue where because when installing it my pcie numbers had changed and on completion of proxmox boot, keyboard and or video...

Hey everyone, I'm planning to set up a Proxmox home lab and considering MINISFORUM MS-A1 vs. MS-01. I’d love to hear from anyone who has successfully installed Proxmox on either of these models—especially regarding compatibility and any issues faced. Here’s the key difference: MS-A1 runs Intel...

Hello, I've recently made a Proxmox VE homelab on a PC. Recently he started crashing a lot (happenned 4 times now) even where there a 0 VM / Containers on. I've put a screenshot below to show the message. I cannot SSH or Https into the server when it happens. Modified configuration : CPU...

Everyone, I wanted to post a link to a resource I have created, a free e-book for Proxmox home lab users. It is a 300+ page e-book that covers everything from installation, configuration, storage, networking, SDN, and other useful tips. You can download it for free here...

Hey guys! I transferred one of my major VMs from Hyper-V to Proxmox by using the Star Wind converter and everything looks good and I have it on the disk I want but when I try to boot it its saying it cant find the boot drive? Any ideas. Thank you!

Hi, I have an offer to buy a Macbook Mini 2018 A1993 32GB RAM 256GB/512GB i7 6 cores for $400 for my first home lab server. I want to learn virtualization, try to install Zabbix, Gitlab runner module, some basic Linux/Sys Admin tools. Is it worth it or not? Thank you for all your advises

Hi, i am using Proxmox with ZFS replication and HA, i have set the /etc/pve/corsync.conf: quorum_votes: 1 two_nodes: yes but everytime the pve1 crashes the pve2 stays on "waiting for quorum", when pve1 is online again the option is back to default, how to solve this?

Hello! I had my new Proxmox server crash and it was saying something about a read write error and when checking the logs its filled to the brim with the same error over and over again. Is this something I should be concerned about? Thank you! Feb 18 03:00:10 PPS01 ceph-crash[1106]...

Hello guys, I started to install a Proxmox VE on a server as a Home Lab to host some services. Those services needs to be accessed from anywhere. Basically, I've followed this tutorial: https://blog.zwindler.fr/2020/03/02/deploiement-de-proxmox-ve-6-pfsense-sur-un-serveur-dedie/ But I think...

Hello, I know there must be an easy fix to my problem but I have looked up for 6 months and no video, forum, or person could help me with this... I want to start a home server with and really old pc, mainly a NAS server and a plex one. Please keep in mind that I'm a noob with those things...

My current NAS setup has Proxmox VE running on bare metal and TrueNAS Scale running in a VM. I created a zfs pool "appspool" from the UI: Datacenter -> Storage -> Add -> ZFS I then created a TrueNAS scale VM and passed through the disk qm set 900 --scsi2...

so, i have heard of proxmox a lot lately, and have been looking into it. then i come across this video and i don't like annoying popups. also, i don't mind supporting projects like this. so i venture over to the pricing page and i'm a little confused. it looks like it's $100 USD/year to remove...

Hello, I have decide to transfere all my nas HDD on my Promox server and after little issue (see here: Failed to import pool ‘rpool’; ssd ko ? No go to X570D4I-2T BIOS!), it’s done proxmox see they new hdd (and one new ssd ) First one question: Proxmox see my new HDD … and also the raid 5...

I've been running Proxmox about 2 years now and I'm always struggling with high IO issues. Due to conficting information online I've tried a ton of different settings and although it has been better then it was it's still not great. So I thought I would write this post and ask for some help...

Hi all, I am not an expert in this world, and I would ask you a little suggestion about the choose of right hardware platform to create a small virtual home lab to run some Virtual Machine. At the moment I do not think more than 4/5 VMs at the same moment. Typically 2/3 VM. I have seen on-line...