These are my notes on adding 2 NVMe to my Intel Core i9-13900H / 32GB RAM + 1TB SSD bundle nodes. In the process, the bundled 1TB NVMe has the cooler removed and is moved to the 3.0 x2 slot.

I purchased five Minisforum MS-01 Work Station, specifically the Intel Core i9-13900H / 32GB RAM + 1TB SSD bundle from their German store (simply because I live in Germany) to replace my ageing F5-422 Ceph nodes.

These are my notes on initial bring-up.

This blog now runs on AlmaLinux OS 9

I installed Proxmox VE 8.1 on my QNAP TS-473A.

These are my installation notes.

ld;dr: it installs fine but the hardware is not at the quality level I expected, machine was put into electronics recycling in late 2024.

I upgraded my existing ProxmoxVE version 7 install to version 8.1.

As expected, this was hassle free.

These are mainly my notes on cleaning out previous CephFS fiddlings.

These are my configuration notes on using a PiKVM V4 Mini to connect to my four Ceph nodes via a cheap 4-port KVM switch.

A launch command to lower the resolution of my primary display from 4k to FullHD when playing Steam games and switch back when I exit the game.

kscreen-doctor output.DP-1.mode.1920x1080@60 ; %command% ; kscreen-doctor output.DP-1.mode.3840x2160@60

When I built my Ceph cluster in March 2020, I used old SATA HDDs I still had on the shelf. It was always clear that at some point these old consumables would die and need replacing. That time has come and I went with 3x 2TB SATA SSD OSD per node.

Since I mostly do LVM and sometimes btrfs, here’s a short braindump of my first ZFS on Linux rodeo.

These are my notes on how to upgrade the UEFI firmware on my QNAP TS-473.

Just a short write-up on the state of my TerraMaster F5-433 Ceph cluster now that it has been in use for about 3 years.