Homelab Installing Noctua 40mm fans in my router To help reduce noise I've been wanting to replace the stock fans (Yate Loon D40SM-12C) that come with the HCiPC Router with something more quiet. I had to wait until I was able
Homelab Installing two PERC H200s Ever since acquiring the Dell R510 —which came with a PERC H700— it was my intention to replace it with an often-recommended H200. This particular card is popular because it can be found
Homelab My basic OPNsense configuration Ever since first setting up my home's network I wanted to try using OPNsense. Since I was very new to both this and pfSense I was struggling to figure things out in a
Homelab Homelab re-organization project Over the next few posts I will be going in more detail into what I have been doing lately to re-organize my homelab. My purpose for the re-organization is to set the software
Homelab Recommended settings for Windows 10 and 2019 Server on Proxmox Installing most operating systems in a virtual machine is pretty straight-forward these days, but for Windows specifically there are a few recommended settings and steps to get the best out of your virtual
Learn With Me Redistributing Memory — Learn With Me Ep.4 A short while ago I set out to more properly distribute and balance the RAM I have available between my servers. I originally had 24GB of unregistered RAM in the Dell R510, which
Learn With Me Configuring VLANs and spinning up pfSense — Learn With Me Ep.3 As it turns out, preparing to emigrate (back?), leaving the company I co-founded, and starting the search for my next work opportunity takes up quite a bit of time. So episode three ended
Homelab D-Link DGS-1210-28 Smart Managed Switch Brief Hardware Overview For anyone in the market of a managed switch for home(lab) or small office use, the DGS-1210 is likely to pop up a s a possible consideration. While it is not the
Homelab Dell R510 2U Server Hardware Overview As you may have seen in some of my previous posts, I have a few servers at home. These serve several purposes, most of which are directly or indirectly related to me bettering
Learn With Me Fiddling with the network cables — Learn With Me Ep.2 A shorter, kind of half-an-episode in the process of complicating my home network for the sake of learning things. Today we’re taking a short look at and moving some cables around, so
Learn With Me Introduction, VLANs & pfSense — Learn With Me Ep.1 A little something else.I have been exploring and learning about networks, servers and everything related in my free time to broaden my skillset and because it's an interesting topic to me. For
Homelab Proxmox VE 5.3 The new version of Proxmox was released a few days ago, and brings several very nice new features with it. For me the most interesting is that they've added PCI passthrough support in
Homelab Server Padding Due to part luck and part perseverance from a colleague I somewhat quickly ended up with several servers. My original plan was to purchase just the one, but these things have a way
Homelab HCiPC B203-1 HCL-SD525-6LA Router/PC Hardware Overview For my increasingly complicated interesting home setup I wanted to explore setting up a more robust router. One that I could use for both my home network —meaning the usual home-type devices; Apple
Homelab Video: Storage Server CPU And Memory Upgrades & New Network Cables When I got the Dell R510 it came with two Intel Xeon L5520s. I wanted to go even more lower powered (the plan is to have it running 24/7), so I got