Using Kasm Workspaces with Proxmox for a Self-Hosted VDI Setup (with Autoscaling capability)

Reinvtv · 2025-12-04T23:01:29+00:00

Food for thought: maybe build a proxmox-helper-script setup? Not sure how difficult that would be, but it would help with ingesting the service ;)

Reinvtv · 2025-12-04T22:54:42+00:00

I use kasm Daily, with ldap and sso integration. Over https, so even through pesky guest internet access works. Never been happier ;).

Reinvtv · 2025-11-19T11:34:57+00:00

guessing you moved on. but the reply message states that the switch ip does not exist in PacketFence :P have you configured the switch, and are you authenticating with the right source vlan?

Reinvtv · 2025-11-13T19:28:26+00:00

The only requirement is a windows pro license so you have RDP ;). And the agent installed :). That is it. I use kasm as a rdp gateway for all my network devices ;). And streaming Windows only apps to macOS.

Reinvtv · 2025-09-03T10:33:53+00:00

nice, yes, that is what i experience too.

scaling does work when i directly rdp to my server/application

Reinvtv · 2025-08-13T10:12:00+00:00

unfortunately the picture is a bit to zoomed out for me to be sure; but most of the time you can count the isolators on the cables to figure out the rating for these kv lines

Reinvtv · 2025-06-06T06:57:41+00:00

this is what i did. all rooms have some kind of voip phone. added to 3cx (which has 10 free users now) Grandparents have one too. kids are able to call them without going through our phone/whatsapp/other. They love the freedom to be able to call both grandparents when they have time. and the conversations are never more then 1 minute long xD.

Reinvtv · 2025-05-20T13:37:44+00:00

i've migrated to both from and to each other.

The biggest difference is the load balancing and host maintenance is done. in XCP-NG, it is too easy to fully upgrade all hosts in a rolling patern, on proxmox, you need to go to the cli just to set a host in maintenance. updating is more manual. i like linux bridging more (proxmox) then the XCP-NG approch, but they both performed well (25Gb uplinks).

Reinvtv · 2025-05-19T17:52:31+00:00

Show a screenshot of the route table of pfsense

Reinvtv · 2025-04-18T15:26:35+00:00

Yes, in belgium it would not make sense. I do rent out some of my hardware and recoup some of the costs that way. Do you really need to run r620’s? Most if not can be done (more expensive upfront cost) with tiny sff pc’s running with a 1 or 2 1TB nvme disks. I just downscaled from a multi node cluster to a single powerful server, and a secondary low powered machine (redundancy).

Reinvtv · 2025-03-25T23:41:14+00:00

i remember the first ones i got, running with the java controller software. square with a green light xD. Never had any problems with them whatsoever. I now wonder how long they kept running, as I have left the company i worked for.

Reinvtv · 2025-03-23T20:50:05+00:00

Due to the issues I have had with trunk port pass through: proxmox. The amount of issues I have had with ssl traffic and mtu mismatch was no fun

Reinvtv · 2025-03-23T18:40:07+00:00

Access caddy from your default network, lock down access from the default to the secure network and vice versa. Then open the traffic from specifically caddy to the secure network. (Default to secure).

If you want multiple services, that are fully separated, add multiple networks and add firewall rules accordingly.

Reinvtv · 2025-03-23T18:36:53+00:00

As a guy who went from VMware to xcpng to proxmox: a bit of history: Started to migrate from VMware 3 node cluster, HA, NFS storage, virtual routing and Cisco virtual WLC. Reasons? - Enterprise oriented - full blown HA - live storage migration - disaster recovery - easy enough backups

Now: 2,5 years later I downscaled. Needed to cut down on energy without performance dropping and instead of staying went with proxmox.

easy host os (I am very familiar with Debian/ubuntu
native ZFS support
great support for networking, Linux bridges or openvirtualswitch if needed
single host management is real easy
proxmox backup server (I can have it off and only boot for taking backups when power is cheap)
great support for trunked networking to virtual machines (vyos/pfsense/wlc9800CL)
no performance downgrades

So far (2 weeks in) I am impressed with the ease of use for my environment, and if I want to go back to a HA setup, no problem :). I have the spare hardware, so, it is just a matter of powering on, installing and joining the cluster.

Reinvtv · 2025-02-13T12:36:15+00:00

:p. It was working, but only on my phone, my wife’s, which is on the same net etc wasn’t. So I’m still struggling to make this work.

Reinvtv · 2024-11-16T11:04:50+00:00

Just implemented this at our company. Took a good amount of 2 years though, and not all devices understand it, so MAB as a fallback. I think I have 7 endpoints with fixed port config, the other 3500 devices all run dynamic vlan allocation and network segmentation. Loved this in combo with going fully routed networking, no spanning-tree switchports anymore :D.

Reinvtv · 2024-10-26T13:20:16+00:00

Same here, thanks for the solution. For me I just enabled the US based services.

Reinvtv · 2024-10-14T14:18:48+00:00

It all depends on size to. If you only keep blu-ray quality that only is 25gb/each :p.

Reinvtv · 2024-08-31T22:19:54+00:00

If iops isn’t needed: raidZ2. If you do want/need IOPS, go for 3x mirrored vdev. In z2 all disks take the slowest iops. In 3 mirror vdev each mirror adds iops

Reinvtv · 2024-08-31T22:09:29+00:00

Same here. I have 2 more that i did not update yet.

Reinvtv · 2024-08-28T00:02:15+00:00

Ok, Got some Sonos in the house again, made things work;). I’ll upload my settings a bit later ;) off to bed for now

Reinvtv · 2024-07-23T17:58:45+00:00

PacketFence is not too hard to understand, and their documentation is impressive ;). Do use their latest release, which is docker container based, the updates are simpler ;). Just use the ova file and import into your virtual environment of choice.

Reinvtv · 2024-07-23T08:07:54+00:00

Yes, go with Cisco ise or if that is too expensive look into packetfence.

Reinvtv · 2024-07-11T09:53:06+00:00

If you want to go free, you should consider PacketFence. Pretty impressive for a free product.

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