hardware
UniFi Switch 16 XG LNA addition
As previously described, I had replaced the fans in my UniFi US-16-XG, but until today I had not put in any low noise adapters (LNA).
That changed today, I added two LNA NA-RC10 (8.3 m³/h, 12.2 dbA) because the switch is still the most noisy piece of equipment in my homelab.
ASUS PN50 as worker node in OpenShift Container Platform
After upgrading the memory of my ASUS PN50 to 64 Gib, it was installed as an OpenShift Container Platform (OCP4) worker node.
ASUS PN50 with Fedora 34 and MythTV
Because my ASUS PN50 running MythTV was initially installed with F32 and I routinely DNF System Upgrade, it has been running F34 for a while now.
The main reason for this post is that the infrared receiver and watchdog seem to finally work.
ThinkPad T480 with Fedora
These are my notes on installing a second hand Lenovo ThinkPad T480 (20L6) for a relative of mine.
Half of 960evo recycled from LVM cache for OCP4
This is my braindump of shrinking the existing 1TB LVM cache (on a Samsung 960evo) to half size and using the freed up space to host qcow2 files used by our OpenShift 4 VMs
ASUS PN50 with Fedora 32
Since my ASUS PN50 is planned to be running MythTV, I reinstalled it with Fedora 32 (wiping my RHEL 8 install).
Specs say 115 x 115 x 49 mm (WxDxH). CD case in the picture to give you a rough idea of the size.
ASUS PN50 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
I bought an ASUS PN50.
These are my notes on initial bringup with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2
Hardware changes to my Ceph Nautilus Cluster
I made some hardware changes to my Ceph Nautilus cluster.
While previously I used one SSD shared between the operating system and Ceph, I did want a clean setup where the OS and Ceph are on separate devices.
Four TerraMaster F5-422 with Ceph
After installing RHEL 8, I started building a Ceph Nautilus cluster with my four TerraMaster F5-422 nodes.
TerraMaster F5-422 with RHEL8
In further happy distro hopping (since Ansible makes this quite painless), I installed RHEL8 on my four TerraMaster F5-422.
UniFi Switch 16 XG fan modification
My new 16 port 10G switch was too loud for my taste. So I fit Noctua NF-A4x20 FLX fans instead.
After the modification, the switch looks the same on the outside.