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tis one has 2,5GB with pci-e option for 10g <https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/ts-473a/specs/hardware>

I have a 9 bay qnap with 10gb but it's not that much bigger than the 4 bay (non 10gb) that I also have

<https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/tvs-472xt/specs/hardware> this one has 10gb

this one is on the cheaper side and has 10gb sfp+ build in <https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/ts-431x3/specs/hardware>

I was looking/comparing them about a year ago until my head hurt at the high price/features etc. Ended up virtualising TrueNAS onto a Supermicro XeonD on vSphere. Its been rock-solid and quick. Its worth a look.

Thx all! <@U02AUHFSEKX>, check the replies

yeah they ain't cheap but I want my nas to just work and don't want to tinker with it so I prefer a ready to use one. To save cost I would recommend checking if the memory is replaceable as most of the times it's cheaper to buy the version with the least amount of ram and replacing it yourself (if all other specs are equal)

<@UKHUMQ2H2> has on I think or was is Paul S?

Not I sorry, just using a windows box full of drives and controllers

All Synology/Qnap needs to do is to start using the ADM Ryzen Embedded with the Vega graphics chip so we can get hardware decoding and built decent plex servers. Until they do they're not getting my money.

<https://www.amd.com/en/products/embedded-ryzen-v1000-series>

like the ts-877 <https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/ts-877> (ignoring the price)

tbh I am not interested in that functionality at all, my qnap's are just for files. One is for the homelab and the other does have some media but no need to de/recode it

Lulz at the price! <https://www.amazon.ca/TS-877-1700-16G-US-High-Performance-IP-SAN-8-core-10G-Ready/dp/B0773RQWQQ>
$3300 cdn and not 10gbe without adding an expansion card. I'd be interested, but it would need to be 2 or 4 bay

<https://xenappblog.com/2017/vyos-virtual-router-on-nutanix-ce/>

Thank you <@ULJ3D468M>. You've helped me so much over the years with all that you contribute to the EUC community.

I've used this series and installed it 2-3 times so far in my home lab: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX_KIrSb6mE>

<https://docs.netgate.com/tnsr/en/latest/routing/route-tables.html>

so its not pfsense, but I think its another option from the same company

thx <@U01544MLCKF>, I found this too but seems TNSR is CLI based only

vyos is another option I think that supports vrf, but I haven't used it.

u3 has been taken down. And if you want access to decent downloads look at vmug advantage for $200 a year, you get access to alot of vmware products

Just finished updating all of them :).  Let's now see if I can downgrade

if its a lab you may be ok, the issues where rare but pretty bad,  I think the biggest issue for a lab would have been thin provisioning may cause a purple screen

mine are on 7.0.3 as well, did a rare lab update before they got pulled. Haven't seen the big issue yet but than I don't use vmfs either which was a main factor if I remember correctly.

the upgrade went well, it was even do-able for a non-IT person like me :slightly_smiling_face:   Just had to figure out that the USB fling first had to be removed before being able to upgrade.

nice!
We put in new (non-smart) lights throughout the house a few years back, now using these Shelly modules I can make them smart.

Love HA!

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I have an 10+ year old 2TB SATA drive in my UDMpro since ~7 months and have no issues so far.
Just using the doorbell at the moment.

I think there is absolutelty no need for a SSD...

I just hit delete on the wrong message...

ya I used to have a server that ran sql, delivery controller, storefront, wem and director

Oh What's up Johnny. It's been a while since I chatted with you. Thanks man. Still at Liquidware?

yes, we chatted the other day when we talked about replicating flexapp packages

Oh, I had no idea that was you man. I was late getting on that call.

thanks, you too but yeah the lab VM I had running the all in one config was 2vCPU and 6GB of RAM and it ran everything fine

Wow, ok cool. That is good to know. I separate out most stuff. But it's taking up more resources than I have. Thanks for the feedback.

Also keep on mind alot of roles can be core

Why would you use Virtual Raid with Nutanix CE? I would remove the RAID stuff, works way better.
Nutanix does not support RAID as they use their own stuff to manage that (better..)

Because I wasn't sure about the Raid deal. I removed the Raid, but CE can't see the drives at all now.

Odd. I have had one time where I had to do a raid 0 because of how it presented the drives through the controller. Do you have a config on the controller where you can put it in pass through mode?

Its a 12thGen PowerEdge R620 with a sata dom, 2 SSD 320GB and 2 ssd 2TB drives.  I tried looking up the passthrough and the perc is a 710p and from what I read it can't do that. I would need a 730p to enable passthrough. I may have to return the server and get a perc controller that allows passthough/jbod ( as dell calls it)  I bought it for my lab, especially for Nutanix CE at home.

man, I need to smack myself. I waited weeks to get this server in only to find out I can't use it the way I need to :disappointed:

Yeah you need a RAID card that can support JBOD so Nutanix CE can see the individual disks.
To be honest, wouldn't a nice desktop make more sense at home than a server?

You could get a basic disk controller that doesn't do RAID or does pass through in order to use the server.

I ordered another server with no raid and its passing the disk through now. All good.

Nice looks like added more than displays 

I use a <https://www.netgear.com/business/wired/switches/smart/xs748t/>

How many ports you need! Ubiquity has a few options 

Cool guys. I shoot for 24 ports, mixed with 1gb and 10gb if possible.

Why not SFP? Do you have cat 6 already run through your home?

The 24 port wasn't managed by another cloud key or anything? The UDM should just see it and allow you to adopt it.

No it wasn’t , I’ll go for a broken cable I think. Will pick up a new one tomorrow

I hate asking the obvious, but you tried the reset button on the switch right?

And you can always use CAT6 to adopt it and add the SFP cable later.

Might be easier to troubleshoot that way.

No didn’t reset it but fresh out of the box it didn’t want to adopt, it’s connected via CAT6 for a few months now and thought let’s give it another try and else ask the guys :grin:

Well good luck! :slightly_smiling_face: Just recently upgraded from a cloud key gen 2 DVR to the UDM SE. Love it.

It’s running great here, can’t imagine it’s being used in production as CPU and mem load is pretty high in a lab running about 40 clients 

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Enough ports left to connect more physical devices

Thats a shame. Mine has been rock solid for over 5 years now. Means that I must finally get around to spinning up the Docker container.

I'm running Unify on a RPI, works perfect

had it on a rpi, than a hp prodesk usff based linux box that also did other tasks but migrated to a udm pro during the summer

running it on a docker container on a VM on my main PC. Works great and one less hardware item to keep powered up.

I’ve been waiting for one of the higher port count 10 gigs to get back in stock but no dice yet. Finally getting around to swapping over to their wireless and quite impressed with performance. Couple management issues but nothing major

Funny you say that. I just noticed they have a good bit of out of stock items. I’m running a 12 year old NETGEAR switch that can’t do much. I’m very limited lol. 3 host , 1 AHV and 2 super micro nodes running VMware.They need some 10gb love soon

I'm looking at downsizing my lab to be more power efficient. Looking at this Aruba switch
 <https://www.broadbandbuyer.com/products/43618-aruba-jl682a/|https://www.broadbandbuyer.com/products/43618-aruba-jl682a/> 

4 x 10gig sfp+ plus 24 1gig ports

Not a bad price. I wish Ubiquiti switches would come back in stock for the 10gig copper ones

I believe you can do packer/terraform with vsphere and if you just do stand-alone it’s free

Nutanix CE with PC should enable the Nutanix based packer solution 

@James Rankin so I take it you install full win 10 on the host and take it from there? 

<@UL5TCJ57D>  Would have limitations though? think max 16 GB ram so I would lose out…

Packer for XenServer. <https://github.com/xenserver/packer-plugin-xenserver>

You can pretty much use whatever you like. Hyper-V is the simplest solution as you can run it all locally, Nutanix CE is great but you are limited on resources.

Sorry, use this link instead, more up to date.
<https://github.com/ddelnano/packer-plugin-xenserver>

I saw this before but no indication that is support Windows builds... all I could find were Linux based builders

I have a Windows 10 box for my lab with client side Hyper-V and Packer builds work great (unless you want Windows 11)

any probs with win11? I have win 11 on my laptop with Hyper-V... maybe I can test it there before changing my hypervisor on my physical host/server

I can't get Windows 11 VMs to build on Hyper-V in Packer because there appears to be no support for the TPM switch

Haven't tried the Hyper-V for Windows 11 but assume it would be exactly the same

(as in it works great unless you want Win11 guests)

You can still build Win11 guests, just not through Packer currently (although it may have been fixed and I haven't noticed)

Happy to share some HCL files for Win10 or Server OSes if you want (although mine are all mostly stolen from GitHub anyway)

Yes please - anything to get me started would be great - cheers:beer:

I have a Chocolatey server - man that was a mission to set up

So I thought.... wanted to do winget initially but it doesn't come native on server OS so I wanted something more cross-platform hence Choco...

I really should write a blog post on creating the Chocolatey server

i've got some primers on Packer on my blog, based on vSphere , but if you want an explanation on how to use scripts to further automate post build stuff , you may find my posts useful

<https://getvpro.wordpress.com/2022/02/10/windows-build-automation-w-packer-powershell-2022-redux/>

Win 11
<https://getvpro.wordpress.com/2022/02/13/packer-part-3-windows-11-build/>

I use vCenter / ESXi. I pay $200 a year for the VMUG program. Not free, but I consider it a career investment

BIOS update fixed it. Little things I forget about lol

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Hmm... I have 5 of those running 6.2.49. Most of my others are nanoHD's.

you have 5? Sounds like you need to ship me 2 of them lol

My gosh man. You live in a 10000 sqft hours or something?

Its my house and my moms connected with a wireless bridge. And an outdoor AP. Have to have wifi at the pond. :stuck_out_tongue:

My back pack has an ipad slot that I throw the monitor into.

<https://www.everki.com/us_en/laptop-backpacks/shop-by-screen-size/under-15-inches.html>

Actually this is the one I use. Its probably my 3rd Everki pack. <https://www.everki.com/us_en/onyx-premium-travel-friendly-laptop-backpack-up-to-15-6-inch.html>

Sorry for the spam, looks like they added a bunch. Its the Atlas. These are great packs though. <https://www.everki.com/us_en/atlas-travel-friendly-laptop-backpack-11-inch-to-15-6-inch-adaptable-compartment.html>

nice, thanks, I'll see if they deliver in EU and order that exact same one

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Mine has something similar, next to my laptop slot it has a specific iPad slot as well

<https://www.swissgear.com|https://www.swissgear.com>

I will say that I like the Everki's because they don't look like a typical IT backpack.

I’d tend to agree with <@ULN4RGZN3>, if I had to buy something for myself Id probably look at something less ‘BOFH’

Or you just get the new Lenovo Book i9 when it comes out... :smile:

I'll drink another beer and see what I'll pick :slightly_smiling_face:   just need something else than the sustainable fluffy backpack I got from the employer, I only need to look at it and my monitor will be broken

I went for a Swiss Gear Wenger Potomac Notebook Trolley, I can put 2 days of clothes in it and it has a separate laptop bag in it where my laptop, stuff and lcd fits in perfectly

Just switch to an SSD. I still get twitchy when I hear sata dom 

Yea Im probably going to do that. The E300-9D case slim space though. But I’ll manage 

Your right I have two of them now. Just need a riser card which I ordered to use my super micro double slot nvme card. Then I need to set the bifurcation to slap the two M.2 970 evo sticks in. Then I can use the onboard M.2 one for the AOS is for the 6.5.2 CE. This is a new host I’m setting up for my lab. This Is so can do a two node cluster instead of the one I have now. Tired of shitting down all vm for maintenance I do.

Doing this
<https://williamlam.com/2019/01/dual-intel-m-2-optane-4801x-in-supermicro-e300-9d.html|https://williamlam.com/2019/01/dual-intel-m-2-optane-4801x-in-supermicro-e300-9d.html>

Another 200 bucks but it’s worth it to me. All though my wife says I have 6k in my lab when is it going to stop. “ ummm never my sweet heart “ lol

It is slim indeed, let me know. When my SATA DOMs broke Fedex them from US to BR. That was expensive. Invest in 3 Noctua fans instead.

6k in 2 years. But yea, fans are a bit noisy. 
I have 2 of them in other super micro box that been running strong that <@ULKDZHKFY> sold me a while back.

It never stops Ray, ha! I know I have a problem, but it lets me learn new things and test stuff out which means I can continue to earn. In my head it's no different from a commute to work and the price that costs. An expense for your job.

Most def. I started out with the small boxes you sent me, But I had to upgrade soon after. But yea, it's so hard not to keep investing in things. But those little boxes make a dang good desktop for my grandson.

Ha ha, brilliant! Glad it was put to good use mate. I have spent far too much money on my lab equipment. Basically all worth it though.

My 3x Mac Mini 2012 i7/32GB worked create as a 3 node Nutanix Cluster, now awesome W11 desktop computers.

Dell Lattitude makes a very nice portable lab. Only had to change disk mode from raid to ahci and add memory

Looks a bit like the Apple Airport Extreme

1449CE8F-B954-406D-9703-7701324A26CF.heic

Finally, some home lab monitoring dashboards.

Official - <https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/unas-pro|https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/unas-pro>

<https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7p1sNmsaMmg&amp;feature=youtu.be|https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7p1sNmsaMmg&amp;feature=youtu.be>

Quad-Core ARM® Cortex®-A57 at 1.7 GHz, no NVME slots for caching :disappointed:

I guess I shouldn't complain at the price point though

Ubiquiti Discord says no, but expect an Enterprise edition that does have caching

SMB and APFS for TimeMachine based backups only on launch it seems...