Side note, you could run it as a VM on proxmox and still get it to work… I think… But again network connection.

So this is a difficult question. Yes, you could use a VM if you have the hardware. The only downside is needing network connection in order to connect to it. If you are away from home that may require opening a port, or preferably a VPN.

Alternatively, I have winapps installed on my Linux laptop. Now, that is designed to run Windows as a VM within docker, podman, or libvirt. The reason I like it is that it doesn’t just use a full rdp session. Do you remember remote apps from back in the day? It is not a full rdp session, it only connects to the app you’ve launched and it appears on your Linux machine as just another window.

Heads up, this is going to be an incredibly detailed comment, sorry. So, at the time I stood up that cluster, it was not in Ceph. I had setup the host to run Ubuntu 24.04 with Root on ZFS and the host was simply connected to itself via NFS.

Here is the Github I created for the Root on ZFS installation, I’m not sure if you are familiar with ZFS but it is an incredibly feature rich filesystem. Similar to BTRFS, you can take snapshots of the server so basically if your host goes down you have a backup at least. On top of that, you get L2ARC caching. Basically, any time it reads or writes to my zpool, that is handled in the background by my NVMe SSD. It also caches the most frequently used files so that it doesn’t have to read from a HDD everytime. I will admit that ZFS does use a lot of memory, but the L2ARC kinda saved me from that on this server.

Ultimately that cluster was not connected to CEPH, but simply NFS. Still, I created a Github repository which is basically just one command to get Ubuntu 24.04 installed with Root on ZFS. https://github.com/Reddimes/ubuntu-zfsraid10. Its not prefect, if it seems like it is frozen, just hit enter a couple times, I don’t know where it is getting hung up and I’m too lazy to figure it out. After that, I followed this guide for turning it into a Cloudstack Host: https://rohityadav.cloud/blog/cloudstack-kvm/.

That was my initial setup. But now I have it setup significantly differently. I rebuilt my host, installed Ubuntu 24.04 to my NVMe drive this time. Did some fairly basic setup with Cephadm to deploy the osds. After the OSD’s were deployed, I followed this guide for getting it setup with cloudstack: https://www.shapeblue.com/ceph-and-cloudstack-part-1/. The only other issue is that you do need a secondary storage server as well. I’ve personally decided to use NFS for that similar to my original setup. Now Ceph does use a LOT of memory. It is currently the only thing running on my host and I’ve attached a screenshot. 77GB!!! OoooWeee… A bit high. Admittedly, this is likely because I am not running just the Rados image store, but also an *arr stack in cephfs on it. And though I have 12 HDDS, some of them have smart poweron time exceeding 7 years. So ignore the scrubbing, please.

I do potentially see some issues, with ceph, the data is supposed to be redundant, but I’ve only provided one ip for it for the moment until I figure out the issues I’m having with my other server. That is some exploration that I’ve not done yet.

Finally takes a breath Anyways, the reason I choose Cloudstack was to delve into the DevOps space a little bit except home built and self-hosted. It is meant to be quite large, and be used by actual cloud providers. In fact, it is meant to have actual public IP addresses which get assigned to the Centos Firewalls that it creates for each network. In a homelab, I had to get a little creative and setup a “public” network on a vlan controlled by my hardware firewall. This does mean that if I actually want something to be public that I need to actually forward it from my hardware firewall, but otherwise, no issue. Going back to the DevOps learning path, not only can you set up linux servers with cloud-init user data, but Terraform works by default and it acts quite similar to Terraform and AWS.

The thing that is interesting about K8S deployments is that it is just the click of a single button. Sure, first you have to download the iso, or build your own with the built-in script, but Cloudstack manipulates the cloud-init user data of each node in the cluster to set it up automatically whether it is a control node, or a worker node. After that, you do need to update the virtual machines running it. I’m sure there is a proper way to use Ansible, but I’ve run into a couple of issue with it and did it manually via ssh.

Edit: Yes, those nodes were all VMs.

Yeah my storage was beefed up at the time. Zfs raid 10. But I’ve changed to using ceph for shared redundant storage.

I’m a little curious what you are using for a hypervisor. I’m using Apache Cloudstack. Apache Cloudstack had a lot of the same features as AWS and Azure. Basically, I have 1000 vlans prepared to stand up virtual networking. Cloudstack uses Centos to stand up virtual firewalls for the ones in use. These firewalls not only handle firewall rules, but can also do load balancing which I use for k8s. You can also make the networks HA by just checking a box when you stand it up. This runs a second firewall that only kicks in if the main one stops responding. The very reason I used Cloudstack was because of how easy it is to setup a k8s cluster. Biggest cluster I’ve stood up is 2 control nodes and 25 worker nodes, it took 12 minutes to deploy.

Yeah, those data questions are really loaded. I don’t host for privacy or what not. It’s because of a learning objective, to study, experiment, and run automated stock trading algorithms. I don’t exactly have anything to hide from private companies.

Interesting. One other option is to use OrangePi for the server. OrangePi has ARC over HDMI and that would count as an input.

I did choose the WiSa surround sound system linked. I’ll cannibalize it later to make better speakers. I like it because it is audio at 24 bit/96kHz. It also just uses the HDMI ARC.

Radio signal(I’m a comm/nav aircraft mechanic, I had to know):

• 5 GHz spectrum
• Fixed latency of 2.6 ms

Straight up, that is awesome. I absolutely love it.

Hell yeah, it will. I need one of those bad boys.

Hah. I see your looking into ZFS caching. Highly recommend. I’m running Ubuntu 24.04 Root on ZFS RAID10. Twelve each data drives and one nvme cache drive. Gotta say it’s performing exceptionally. ZFS is a bit tricky, it requires an HBA not a RAID card. You may to to flash the raid card to get it working like I did. After that, I have put together a GitHub for the install on ZFS RAID 10, but you should easily be able to change it to RAIDz2. Fair warning, it wipes the drives entirely.

https://github.com/Reddimes/ubuntu-zfsraid10/

I’m going to go with yes. Since unlike Star Wars, Stargate has multiple enemies and is closer to Star Trek with its episodic nature. Although some(ok, most) of the enemies are based on ancient fantasy characters, I would say that what actually makes them different is simply technology as opposed to any legitimate magic powers(the force). I think that easily takes it from fantasy into Science Fiction. Perhaps this argument loses support when it comes to the ORI. But what about the wraith, the goauld, the ancients, the Jaffa, the tokra, the nox, the replicators, and the Asgard?

Uh… I don’t have a separate partition for /home. I have a separate zfs filesystem for it though. If I run into issues, I can restore from snapshot and not affect it.

oOoo… 10 upvotes on a zfs raid 10. I feel like I got the perfect amount.

To be fair they wouldn’t be able to read this either.

Or this

Wait… You have to take a screenshot with the assistant? For me Power + volume down is the key combination that takes a screenshot. I also get a tiny button for scrolling screenshots and one for sharing them.

Funny story, mostly me just being dumb, I tried to take a screenshot of the screenshot UI, but it removes it from the screenshot automatically.

Please do let me know if this works for you though.

Where… In all of fuck… Did that pickle come from?

And I just told you that I don’t have a problem with Reuters. I totally get that it is not high priority news and it took them a while to put out a report about it.

I just told you that it’s you I have a problem with.

The date of the article is irrelevant, the article clearly shows the poll was made August 25 to August 27th.

And I’m not going to bitch to Reuters about the audacity you had to post such nonsense data to a politics community.

When you post articles that use data that is damn near a month out of date. Polls from August 25th? Or is it August 27th? Wasn’t that prior to the debate pounding that Harris gave Trump? On top of that where is this data from? What CAIR has posted at first glance does not include geographic breakdowns, so where did that data actually come from?

Is… Is this a Trump meme?