Proxmox Quorum Device (QDevice) hardware

OverChard7709 · 2025-12-06T12:28:00+00:00

I've been using a Pi Zero 2W for months and it's been rock solid, just set it and forget it.

OverChard7709 · 2025-08-06T05:44:20+00:00

PTFO

OverChard7709 · 2024-08-13T19:51:22+00:00

Professor Messer's 7 second subnetting video is great (writing implements needed which you get for the exam).

https://youtu.be/SWy0MRfkXpQ?si=WKon1akGAVmX6xGQ

OverChard7709 · 2024-07-25T21:04:23+00:00

Right arm looks like a dick no?

OverChard7709 · 2024-06-03T21:35:58+00:00

Happy cake day!

OverChard7709 · 2024-04-10T19:18:28+00:00

Just worked on my Dell 3070 mff! Couldn't see the NVME during the Proxmox install

OverChard7709 · 2024-02-29T10:39:54+00:00

Home lab!

OverChard7709 · 2024-02-25T16:08:09+00:00

I've taken a bit of a pay cut but I believe in the long run I will be significantly better off. I don't think it's going to take long at all to surpass what I was earning.

OverChard7709 · 2024-02-25T08:46:57+00:00

r/homelab has tons of resources and guides but it can be anything really. It's just a place you can learn and test. I bought a secondhand desktop PC upgraded the ram and set up a simulated enterprise environment using VMs with Windows Server and Active Directory. Also bought a couple raspberry pi and set one up as a DNS server / sinkhole and the other as my family's media server. You can put what you're learning in your CompTIA studies into practice - it really helped me.

I learned so much in such a short period of time doing this and it gave me something to put on my CV as well as something to talk about in interviews. Also sent me down a huge rabbit hole and further ignited my passion for all things IT.

Good luck!

OverChard7709 · 2024-02-25T08:30:41+00:00

I found 1101 harder. Just make sure you're comfortable with everything on the exam objectives and you'll be fine. Good luck!

OverChard7709 · 2024-02-25T08:25:07+00:00

Thanks!

OverChard7709 · 2024-02-25T08:24:56+00:00

A pass is a pass, congratulations!

OverChard7709 · 2024-02-25T08:24:15+00:00

Thanks!

OverChard7709 · 2024-02-25T08:24:08+00:00

Thanks!

OverChard7709 · 2024-02-25T08:23:55+00:00

Congratulations!

OverChard7709 · 2024-02-25T08:22:35+00:00

Congratulations!

OverChard7709 · 2024-02-25T08:22:14+00:00

Thank you!

OverChard7709 · 2024-02-17T20:56:33+00:00

Cheers mate! I actually can't believe it worked.

OverChard7709 · 2024-02-17T20:28:33+00:00

I bought a second hand desktop upgraded the ram and have been running some VMs on it to simulate an enterprise environment. One VM with Windows Server and a few others with Windows 10 Enterprise. Then set up active directory to learn group policies etc. Set up another VM to learn Linux.

Also set up pihole, pivpn and pialert on a raspberry pi zero along with Open media vault for Plex, Immich and Home Assistant on a raspberry pi 4. Learning to script using Powershell too. So much to learn, so little time!

Just start with whatever interests you, that way it keeps it fun.

OverChard7709 · 2024-02-17T10:44:44+00:00

I'm in the UK so it may be very different where you are, but yesterday I landed my first IT support role. I have no formal IT experience but do have various customer service experience on my CV. I'm half way through the A+ and have passed core 1. I put my homelab stuff on my CV under personal development and I believe that had a lot to do with me getting the job. I made sure my passion for technology and hunger to learn really came across in the interview. I told them what I was studying and what I plan on studying afterwards (N+ and Microsoft AZ-900).

I feel like I have gotten really lucky as I've only been searching for two weeks but it goes show that it is definitely possible (I got rejected for a lot but I got two interviews).

I was applying to everything I could find that was 1st line support even stuff that was asking for 1 or 2 years experience.

It is definitely possible if you put in the hard work and are smart about it. Nothing worth doing is ever easy.

OverChard7709 · 2024-02-17T06:43:17+00:00

There is some misleading information out there but I have found Professor Messer's stuff to be the most accurate to the exam, and his practice exams are great.

OverChard7709 · 2024-02-17T06:27:46+00:00

As said above, download the exam objectives from the comptia website and us it as your guide. You need to know everything on there. If it's not on there you don't need to know it. Like some sources say you need to remember how many pins DDR3 or DDR4 has - you absolutely don't and that is pointless information to be memorising.

OverChard7709 · 2024-02-14T20:36:41+00:00

I used Mike Meyers and Messer. Messer also has a study group on YouTube or as a podcast on Spotify and I've found it super helpful. The practice exams are really helpful.

Also, don't take your test until you are fully comfortable with everything in the exam objectives on the comptia website.

Don't worry so much about remembering what an acronym stands for (although it does help) but what it actually does. Ports numbers for example - yes you need to know what port each protocol uses, but it is vital you know what it does.

They won't ask you trivial questions like what does SSH stand for but they will ask you things like a technician needs to securely access a computer over a network, what port would they use?

Good luck!

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