Monitoring Home Power Consumption for less than $25
On almost a daily basis, I am bombarded with ads on Facebook for the Sense. This device allows you to monitor whole-home power consumption. I could probably find room for…
Fully embracing Docker
For years, I've used a variety of services on my home server. Much of it revolved around managing media. Only recently have I adopted Docker, and now I wonder why…
Abusing the QNAP TS-831x with ZFS
Lately for my business, I've been recommending the QNAP TS-831x to clients. As I have a few of them sitting around my lab now, I decided to abuse them a…
Migrating the lab BACK to ESXi after a Proxmox Experiment
A few months ago I migrated my home lab to Proxmox. After fighting with a few things, it's time to move back to ESXi. It must have been about two…
Proxmox and Ceph for the NucNucNuc
In the latest incarnation of the NucNucNuc, I get Proxmox and Ceph installed The idea of Ceph is very attractive. Distributed storage eliminates a huge concern of mine, which is…
The NucNucNuc gets XenServered
In this post, I explore putting XenServer on these NUCs. While XenServer is firmly in the "traditional full-blown hypervisor" category, it would be a potential alternative to expensive VMWare licenses.…
Completed the Xeon D Lab with a Router
After my previous fun with assembling a server from scratch, you'd think I wouldn't be too excited to do it again. But I did it anyway... With only one non-Xeon…
The NucNucNuc is born
In the next year, I will be forced to replace about $200,000 of aging hardware due to end-of-life. I am not excited about this prospect. My mission in this is…
Whiteboxing a 1U – completing the rage
With all the previous problems from this build, it's not surprising that this server continued to torment me. After researching and testing, I determined that my up-and-down power consumption problems…
Whiteboxing a 1U – the rage continues
Once the rest of my parts arrived, it's safe to say the problems, and the rage, continued to build. It took over a week, but the rest of the parts…
