Setting up SMB file sharing on Debian with AD permissions.

So my new home server was ready to take over from the existing server rack. Here is how I went about migrating everything over with the least downtime for vital services.

Adding ZFS bulk storage to my new ESXi Threadripper all in one homelab. Here is the journey I went through getting this to work, and the issues I ran into.

So as part of downscaling the home lab, I needed to build a capable replacement for the existing 3 node vSAN cluster. Here’s a summary of my adventure, and the choices made along the way.

So it is time. I have finally decided to downscale the server situation at home. This will be a big multi-stage project, so I need to lay out end goals and steps forward.

Over the last few years, my homelab has gone from zero to being out of control. Having a homelab allows me to learn a lot of skills such as networking and managing infrastructure for virtualised workloads. Here I will try and summary the lab hardware, and the software being used.

During the setup of a project of mine, I ran into an issue with VyOS where I couldn’t figure out how to setup multiple wireless interfaces. So after some digging around online and some help from a few people, I figured out a way to get it up and running.

So I was just browsing reddit, and stumbled across this thing, the Fitlet 2. At first it just looked like a heatsink with antennas, so I had to look further. Turns out the specs of these things are pretty good for their form factor. This got me thinking, could this be a super portable VM host and mostly complete homelab site?

Want to use your router to send network traffic over a VPN connection, but you don’t want all of your traffic using the VPN? With VyOS, this is easy to setup using Policy Based Routing.

For a while now I’ve been meaning to switch from pfSense to VyOS for my lab routers, and had started playing around in a staging environment. I decided it’s finally time to bite the bullet and migrate the production environment.