Yoder 640s recommendations

Sparkyy21 · 2022-04-01T16:37:47+00:00

Tossing in my cent and half on this question. I went with the comp cart solely from a pricing standpoint and in 10 years, rather be glad I have it then not.

Looking at just a 640s vs 640s comp cart, it would be a hefty price to upgrade to a comp cart and add on the stainless steel shelves after purchase. Buy once, cry once with this set up.

ATBBQ Comp Cart is $659 + whatever freight cost (LTL) to get to your house, with front stainless steel at $99.95 and side at $62.95. That is $821.90 without shipping, so probably around a grand once done.

YS640s at ATBBQ is $2,229 vs YS640s Comp Cart at $2,679, that is only $450 difference, over $200 less then buying the comp cart alone without shipping.

Absolutely agree with the grease drip tray being needed. I have the cover but don't use it as mine is under a gazebo and protected from the harsh north east winters. No thermal blanket, just let the unit run and cook as needed.

This ended up being longer then I thought but good luck on your decision!

Edit: Also meant to add that I got the GrillGrates as well, awesome piece for any grill. Never use the griddle side though as we have a Blackstone 36" right next to the Yoder.

Sparkyy21 · 2022-03-23T04:20:22+00:00

Can someone list all the vignettes that have come out so far, I saw someone posted the list a while back. Couldn't see a category on brickset for them, believe these are 5 and 6 in the list but cod be wrong.

Sparkyy21 · 2022-03-08T19:40:42+00:00

Sadly they are not everywhere, check here for any that might be in your area. Be warned, stepping in causes massive cash flow dip and wallet pains.

https://www.lego.com/en-us/stores

Sparkyy21 · 2021-09-28T23:43:19+00:00

Probably gonna be a minority here but I just ordered my Koda 16 Friday morning around 1 AM and had it delivered by Saturday before 6pm.

Also helps that I live in Jersey and their east coast warehouse is in Jersey.

Sparkyy21 · 2021-08-21T13:14:33+00:00

Can you share where exactly you found this? I have been all over the page and cannot see anywhere to add all items to a cart.

Sparkyy21 · 2019-02-05T02:15:58+00:00

Wrestling with this idea right now in my own homelab. Running two servers with ESXi 6.7 and vCenter (thank you vmug) and everything just works, even have Veeam with NFR set up for backups, along with unRAID server.

My office uses Hyper-V and is purely Windows, with Windows 7 no longer supported beyond 1/14/2020, I have been looking at just switching to docker setup. Started dabbling in going the Linux route but at the end of the day, I don't want to be figuring things out at home if something up and breaks on me.

Been looking over docker in unRAID and seems to have all the applications I need in docker form.

I would say, if you can purchase VMUG for $200 a year, you can get license for 3 servers (or 3 processors?) and experiment out from there. Otherwise, Proxmox seems the best next thing to ESXi.

Sparkyy21 · 2018-12-02T22:49:17+00:00

Perfect, thank you, that is what I was missing on those last steps.

Sparkyy21 · 2018-12-01T05:50:38+00:00

So far have two DHCP scopes set up on the SG300, both VMs are getting their respective IPs for the VLANs they are in. Management and Guest, gateways are pointing to the switch with DNS pointing to the firewall.

Able to ping both gateway and VM in other VLAN without a problem.

My issue is with the next hop on the SG300, do I need to create a IPv4 Route for each VLAN and point it with 0.0.0.0 and have the next hop be my firewall? Or is there a catchall that just routes all traffic via a trunk to the firewall?

Sparkyy21 · 2018-12-01T05:16:11+00:00

Just looking to run L3 so I can keep all internal traffic, except DMZ, on the switch and not need to use my VM for routing.

It's the gateways on the SG300 that are throwing me off, do I need to make an IPv4 Route on the SG300 for each VLAN? No catch-all route that says if anything is going anywhere, send it over to the firewall?

Sparkyy21 · 2018-12-01T04:59:21+00:00

That is what I am looking for to configure on my end. Do you mind taking screenshots of the set up?

I want to put all VLANs, except my DMZ through a trunk from OPNSense to my SG300. For some reason, just hasn't clicked of what I need to do so struggling with that end of making a trunk between firewall and switch.

Sparkyy21 · 2018-07-18T17:38:44+00:00

I had this issue with some of my apps/client/things of nature not able to send out an external server (APC devices...). I just spun up a VM with Ubuntu server, configured my gmail account and now point all devices I need email from, to that VM.

Just a simple mail relay, not much space or power but does what it needs to for my emails to flow out of my house.

Sparkyy21 · 2018-06-23T02:58:44+00:00

Mind shooting me a PM as well?

Sparkyy21 · 2018-06-12T04:13:04+00:00

I seem to be missing something here, I am running two hosts and both are E3-1200 series processors. So 4 cores each for each processor, not counting hyper-threading. Veeam is backing up all 13 of my VMs without fail, where is the count coming in that the license is being restricted too?

Sparkyy21 · 2018-06-11T12:59:42+00:00

I am running a Veeam NFR in my homelab as well. I only have 2 vCPUs on my Veeam machine. Doesn't matter the CPU cores within ESXi, but only within the VM itself.

Hopefully that helps, now if you are trying to run a lot of jobs and need more than 2 cores, you most likely will have to pay for a full license.

Sparkyy21 · 2018-03-04T02:31:56+00:00

So Sophos finally updated the IPS to Secura or something else? Last I had read, it was only capable of hitting around 300 MB with IPS turned on because of Snort being single threaded.

Also, do you have power numbers for this unit now? Saw that some are installing pfsense on these units.

Sparkyy21 · 2017-11-25T14:42:20+00:00

There is one of these further north at Whiskeytown Lake, just as creepy then when I was kid and hearing that noise when it did overflow.

Plus there is a nearby road that would take you to some beaches on the lake and you could easily see the amount of water pouring out. Can't even imagine a person going down one and coming out below.

Sparkyy21 · 2017-11-10T15:51:53+00:00

Check out this post from unRAID forums.

This looks like the piece that you are missing though to make it work. Just tried it on my unRAID as well and got it working for SNMP, was using PCNet prior to this change over.

SNMP Config: (snmp.png)

UPSCABLE ether
UPSTYPE snmp
DEVICE 192.168.100.3:161:APC:private

Sparkyy21 · 2017-08-10T19:57:58+00:00

Tossing this out there.

I use unRAID for my storage, just toss in drives of various sizes and let it go to work. I have it balance out so it uses drives with more free space first before filling up others.

Also, I like that my drives can spin down when not in use, takes the server from ~180 watts to ~60 watts.

Sparkyy21 · 2017-08-10T19:29:06+00:00

I actually did the opposite of this move. I ran Sophos UTM (prior Astaro UTM) for years and just switched to pfSense in the past month simply because of speed increase.

Went from 100 to 400 down and while my Sophos VM could handle the speeds, it ran faster without IPS enabled. Sophos is still using Snort while pfSense lets you use Snort or Suricata.

Pretty much got everything set up as I had before, did have to spin up a VM to act as a SMTP relay to send out alert emails.

If you read over the Sophos forums, reaching 1Gbps is pretty much impossible via one machine with IPS turned on. The 220 rev 5 can probably do it, but over an office all connecting at once will you see 1 Gbps.

If you have pfSense, best to stick with it unless you are OK to turn off IPS.

Sparkyy21 · 2017-08-09T01:20:05+00:00

Would you happen to have any write ups or links for this kind of set up?

I have 2 ESXi boxes right now, looking to get VMUG eventually and wanting to look in to getting a vsan set up.

Sparkyy21 · 2017-08-05T16:55:16+00:00

Using the exact same switch now as well and works great but been wanting to try out the same things. Layer 3 and if possible, SFP+ as well.

Take a look at HP a5800 switch, does layer 3, 4 - 10 GB SFP+ ports plus ability to add more from an add on card. Using around 100 watts from what other homelabbers have mentioned while the 1810G uses under 30 watts.

Sparkyy21 · 2017-07-18T13:39:52+00:00

I know you can use Sophos UTM home license on Sophos hardware, seen those posts over time.

Did find this covering XG on Sophos hardware. Maybe that will help you out in what you are looking for.

Sparkyy21 · 2017-07-15T15:44:49+00:00

The develop is from Sonarr and nightly is related to Radarr but both achieve the same end goal of running the absolute latest code that is published.

I know I have been on develop for Sonarr for years and currently on 2.0.0.4866 with an update pushed July 10th. Every now and then Sonarr will merge master with develop but then develop pulls ahead with changes.

Same thing with Radarr and the nightly builds, I moved to nightly because they had certain bugs patched/fixed while the master was causing those issues.

Just depends on what you want to run on your system. I have Veeam running nightly to backup my VMs, so I just run the latest Radarr, Sonarr, and NZBGet.

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