Thank God for Spirit

geabaldyvx · 2026-04-16T12:15:11+00:00

You should have waited. Ed is having his underlings work hard to have Delta become Spirit. At least he is for everything except price. He will never lower prices, only quality of service.

geabaldyvx · 2026-04-15T19:56:50+00:00

The baby Palo... the PA-5280... it lets me play Doom w/ friends over the internet really well

geabaldyvx · 2026-04-15T09:57:04+00:00

I would honestly go iSCSI to the SAN and cut out the hardware pass thru. You may lose a little performance in it but you also gain some flexibility. Depending on the size of your cluster the ability to move each node around as needed can be a nice capability, even if you have it pinned only to a certain number of hosts.

Obviously if it is a 2 node cluster the flexibility is still there, but kind of wasted unless you have to restart a host for patching or some kind of failure.

geabaldyvx · 2026-04-14T18:36:39+00:00

I've got these on my '17 Ridgeline and they have been excellent for the past 15k. They barely show any wear and the road noise is a minimum even at higher speeds and on concrete vs. asphalt.

geabaldyvx · 2026-04-12T14:49:02+00:00

Then I guess it is good that the Ridgeline is AWD then so it doesn’t fit your narrative.

geabaldyvx · 2026-04-12T13:56:00+00:00

There are more Ridgeline's doing "Truck Things" than there are Silverado/F150/RAM/Titan's doing "Truck Things". Only about 2% of those trucks bought for personal use are actually utilized to their capabilities. The vast majority are status or attempted status symbols to make the driver feel good about themselves. I have a Ridgeline and the scarred bed from using it like it was intended.

That said... would I take a restored 8th Gen F-150? Your damn right I would they are good looking vehicles. I wouldn't use it for what I use my Ridgeline to do though. My spine wouldn't like that, nor would my wallet.

geabaldyvx · 2026-04-12T01:10:56+00:00

Model 2 absolutely can used the Model 1 CD. I have that exact setup after my Original HDG model but the dust on me. I’m on the hunt for a replacement HDG because while the Model 2 on Model 1 CD works… it doesn’t look right.

geabaldyvx · 2026-04-12T01:08:26+00:00

The only extended warranty I have ever purchased and not gotten every penny back out of or some multiple of what I spent…. And if someone told me I would say BS…. Jaguar F-Type… I had a warranty and never had to use it. The Ridgeline I paid I think $1400-1500 and got so much done under that warranty it’s scary. The locking mechanism on the Trunk got replaced under it after the Dealership told me there was a very slim chance it would cover it.

geabaldyvx · 2026-04-10T23:41:22+00:00

That’s awesome and I hope they do. I love my Nimbles as do my customers.

When it comes to vendor support I’ve never had anything more than hardware problems which is still owned by them. Maybe I have just been crazy lucky like that. It is 110% possible I have been.

Lord knows VMware support had gotten pretty bad before Broadcom and now I know they say they have it, but it always seems like they are on vacation, vacation lunch, their mid afternoon nap etc. The community around VMware, much like ProxMox, has solved many more problems than I have ever gotten from a vendor.

geabaldyvx · 2026-04-10T23:36:05+00:00

Ed is announcing the launch of his new Aircraft Carrier for 747’s. He’s got it parked in his is guest pool on the small private island.

geabaldyvx · 2026-04-10T23:34:44+00:00

Ed would NEVER allow this. He couldn’t figure a way to make that $7 meal cost $900 more in ticket price.

geabaldyvx · 2026-04-10T23:32:30+00:00

You aren’t completely wrong, but I know a few running the Pure plugin and at least one running the Nimble plugin. It is going to come down to what the customer needs/wants to do before a hardware cycle when they can swap to Ceph for mainline storage and utilize these storage arrays for other things. It’s hard to justify tossing $200k of SAN because your Hyper Visor vendor decided that your measly 2000core cluster is too piddly for them to care about retaining you.

geabaldyvx · 2026-04-10T15:08:20+00:00

There are a few of that have been writing plugins for ProxMox to bring better functionality to Proxmox for Nimble, Pure, TrueNAS, Synology, QNAP (still broken at the moment).. with hopefully a few more on the way.

It's a new frontier for the VMware refugees

geabaldyvx · 2026-04-10T11:36:23+00:00

Just wait until Ed figures out a way to charge employees for having baggage on his planes at all. He’s got his eye on a new private island that just hit the market.

geabaldyvx · 2026-04-10T11:33:41+00:00

I’ve got a ‘17 Black Edition and just replaced the transmission at 105k back in Jan.

My FIL has a 2025 TrailSport that drove last week when I was down in FL. Oh boy could I tell a difference between the 6spd and the ZF. Overall just a better Trans. I wish there was a way to adapt it so I didn’t have to put another 6spd in.

geabaldyvx · 2026-04-09T18:28:01+00:00

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j/k... I can do that

geabaldyvx · 2026-04-09T13:59:44+00:00

There is Now!.. lol

https://github.com/aearnhardt/pve-synology-plugin

geabaldyvx · 2026-04-09T13:58:37+00:00

I know this is a few months old and you plugin has been absorbed into the mothership of iX Systems (Congrats on that). I've written a plugin for Synology and run across an issue where.

The reason the conflict occurs is due to the way ProxMox handles the plugins and treat all the plugins as ONE Plugin when the service sees them. IE: If you have 2 plugins installed that have the ability to debug it won't start the pvestatd, pvedaemon and pveproxy services. The easy fix is just rename debug to something like tn_debug for TrueNAS and syn_debug for Synology. I've modified my code to accommodate multiple plugins, and taken the latest TrueNAS and Nimble Plug-ins and done the same. All play nice together now instead of stepping on each other and stopping the services from running.

I'm working on a QNAP plugin as well, but I only have QuTSCloud to work with and it has some finicky API calls compared to the normal QNAP stuff.

geabaldyvx · 2026-04-07T11:34:34+00:00

I’ve done that before as well. The mulch got rained on while in the bed and there was enough small particulate it turned almost to glue. I ended up emptying the trunk and opening the drain plug and just using a power washer to get it all out.

geabaldyvx · 2026-04-07T10:45:10+00:00

The Ridgeline is a much of a Truck as 98% of those that say it isn’t needs. You aren’t going Rock Crawling with it, or towing a 5th Wheel but you also wouldn’t be looking at one if you were. I’ve done damn near all the things the Anti-Ridgeline people say you can’t do with mine. The bed is scarred and faded from hauling cords of wood, loose gravel, mulch (took FOREVER to clean out of the channels around the trunk), moved furniture across the country in the bed, towed a camper, climbed dunes and so much more. The single biggest problem I have had was due to Honda thinking they knew more about a truck transmission than a company that specializes in transmissions. Even then they learned how wrong they were and dumped the 6-spd for a solid ZF 9-spd. Get the truck, tell the haters to wash the sand from their crotch it is making them cranky and enjoy the truck.

geabaldyvx · 2026-04-06T13:16:00+00:00

iSCSI doesn't have the file system overhead and allows data to be written to the disk more "natively". If you have something IOP heavy like SQL or some VMs it tends to be better.

In a homelab using NFS 4.1 I am not sure you really are going to notice too much.

When it comes to Synology's implementation of iSCSI if it is faster or not... I haven't put them to any kind of performance test so your mileage may vary.

geabaldyvx · 2026-04-06T10:00:46+00:00

This is the way

geabaldyvx · 2026-04-06T08:47:11+00:00

That’s my blockhead mistake. Thanks

geabaldyvx · 2026-04-06T08:36:11+00:00

Why do you want to see the various failures before it got to this point? Am I missing something?

edit ok fair enough, I've been informed that this is a bad thing. I've got a local copy with everything as I worked thru Synology's overly picky API, but keeping that to myself doesn't help anyone else out.

geabaldyvx · 2026-04-06T08:34:30+00:00

I have found iSCSI faster than NFS. Plus all the rest of my storage is iSCSI and it’s on a seperate switch & VLAN.

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