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

These are my installation notes.

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.

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

While for my virtualisation needs I am firmly in the Red Hat camp, an article in ix 9/2021 piqued my interest.

Since I was on a week of ‘staycation’ and the T7910 was not in use, I decided to test Proxmox VE 7.0 on a Dell Precision T7910 tying in my existing Ceph Nautilus storage for both RBD and CephFS use.

This is my braindump of using virt-resize to migrate 3 OpenShift 4 master VMs’ qcow2 disk files, on a CentOS 7 hypervisor, from 70G each in one libvirt storage pool to 150G each in another pool.

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

Just the steps needed to grow a cached LV.

Added this to my server:

• Supermicro 2-Port NVme HBA AOC-SLG3-2M2-O
• 1000GB Samsung 960 Evo M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 32Gb/s 3D-NAND TLC Toggle

My braindump follows.

Since the new server is to be a hypervisor, there are configuration steps to be done.

My braindump follows.

The Super Micro remote management webUI is nice and even offers KVM with HTML5. But I much prefer using vendor agnostic IPMI directly instead of a vendor specific tool like iDRAC, iLO, etc.

These are my notes on setting fan thresholds via IPMI for my H11DSi-NT motherboard.

My significant other and I got ourselves a new home server.