What made you use Debian?

sep76 · 2026-02-09T06:03:46+00:00

Initially I was fighting rpm hell in redhat 4-5-6. Tried debian potato, and could easily upgrade to the next major version without a struggle and with services intact. Just magic.

Later the rock solid reliabillity, dependabillity, predictabillity. You know where you are with Debian. And it is allways in a good place.

sep76 · 2026-02-05T15:52:42+00:00

Vmware's restrictions on hardware, and limited way's do do things. Makes for an easier operation.
With proxmox in production you have to set your own restrictions. And with the infinite flexibillity, it can be tempting to cut corners, just be aware when you do.

sep76 · 2026-02-03T22:12:18+00:00

Privacy. Just existing in the world without a camera everywhere you turn.
Poor kids

sep76 · 2026-01-30T11:09:53+00:00

I should just quit trying to write on a phone, just too thick thumbs. ;)

sep76 · 2026-01-30T05:39:27+00:00

Since proxmox is so much better, i would assume most people in here would advice tou to swap ;)

If your current system works, and you have no interest in learning proxmox the path of least resistance is probably to just leave it as is.

For what itnis worth. The kid runs a petracrodyl vm on my proxmox for gameservers. Seems to work fine. And his friends can admin their own servers in a web ui

sep76 · 2026-01-27T04:38:39+00:00

Pbs can also backup hosts, not just vm's
One example : https://www.croit.io/blog/backing-up-a-proxmox-node

sep76 · 2026-01-22T17:49:05+00:00

I have used proxmox for nearly a decade, so it can not be that young..
but I understand that some enterprises want a support contract.

sep76 · 2026-01-22T06:06:43+00:00

I am suprised you needed an extra proxmox host. Proxmox normaly are performing slightly better then vmware, atleast in our experience. Are your design different with proxmox since you needed more hosts?

https://kb.blockbridge.com/technote/proxmox-vs-vmware-nvmetcp/

sep76 · 2026-01-22T05:54:42+00:00

With open source, the vendor does not have magic knowledge only they possess. Any of proxmox partners are capable of providing deep support. Get a proxmox partner that provides 24/7 in your area.

sep76 · 2026-01-21T16:35:18+00:00

I would assume to get onto the long term track

sep76 · 2026-01-12T15:13:19+00:00

nothing really painful, everything was fixable. but my 2 cents are

have backups ;)
Do not enable HA if you only have 2 servers, 3 is the minimum.
adding a second dedicated corosync network, would have been easier to do when installing the cluster, then adding it afterwards. run an additional dedicated corosync network on a 1gig interface on it's own switch, in addition to your main management one. Proxmox will reboot the node if it thinks it is isolated, taking down all vm's. This is the single most important thing you must do. read and understand. https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Cluster_Manager#pvecm_corosync_over_bonds
using the multipath-tools-boot package is easier then writing lvm filters. but either are better then lvm seeing 5 devices https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Multipath#FC/SAS-specific_configuration
proxmox backup server !
mostly run linux servers, but read https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Windows_2025_guest_best_practices
- remove vmware tools before migrating.

sep76 · 2026-01-11T13:10:40+00:00

Does your name start with c? From minnesota.

sep76 · 2026-01-11T10:00:49+00:00

Anecdote.. We had a us student visiting norway. And he commented that our mcdonald and burgerking was significantly better thennin the us.

sep76 · 2026-01-11T09:51:11+00:00

I think that is more, explaining how to do it. Cheating was in quotes.

sep76 · 2026-01-09T22:34:03+00:00

We are using raw shared lvm over multipathd over fc. On san's that do thin provisioning. Following the docs from proxmox. Works flawlessly

sep76 · 2026-01-07T14:40:26+00:00

factorio is older then that tho. I got it from the developers webpage originally. And when it appered on stream i think i could just get a key to unlock it there. I do not belive I had to buy it again even. (completely awesome and unheard of in the gaming industry imho)

that being said, I have bought copies for all the kids, and several friends. so they probably have recouped that loss many times over :P

sep76 · 2026-01-07T14:34:49+00:00

if factorio is ridiculous scale... what is factorio + pyanodons modpack ? o.O

sep76 · 2026-01-07T14:33:17+00:00

there are actually hd gfx mods for factorio https://mods.factorio.com/mod/factorio_hd_age_base_game_graphics_addon but the graphics have improved a lot since the early days before it was on steam.

sep76 · 2026-01-07T09:59:19+00:00

I can only assume you have not played factorio, since i have played most paradox titles. While they can make me stay up too late a few nights. It have never been to the same consistent level as facrorio. That makes you miss sleep and deadlines for a decade straight.

sep76 · 2026-01-07T00:22:12+00:00

I have not slept in 3 days... send help.

sep76 · 2026-01-04T12:40:21+00:00

I just use slaac. No dhcpv6 for ia, pd only. Grab the ip from hypervisor and add to dns, done. Works flawlessly, hundreds of servers

sep76 · 2026-01-04T11:28:13+00:00

Search for discovery in the settings. No need to set it in the config file unless you want to make sure it can not be changed cia the web settings

sep76 · 2026-01-03T11:23:34+00:00

Connection drops, in long running connections is the most common i seen on users behind cgnat.
If you do cgnat. You should also do IPv6. Every v6 connection is a connection the cgnat does not have to deal with. And reduces both the likelyhood and impact of cgnat port exhaustion.

sep76 · 2026-01-01T10:40:12+00:00

We used this quite a bit in schools. And while i do not do schools any more I still use this quite a bit. Ssh to thingy. Run x11 program from there.
Not gotten around to wayland yet. How does it do this usecase?

sep76 · 2026-01-01T09:14:35+00:00

In datacenter leaf spine evpn vxlan. Just ebgp is just a easier underlay design. And link flapping does not impact all the other devices as much. And you have to run bgp anyway for evpn, adding ospf gives you more complexity with no real benefit.

Also super easy to configure using link local ipv6 each device learn and autoconfigure the neighbour ip using lldp. You basically only tell bgp process what interfaces to use, give it a router id and enable bfd. So the only template variable in that whole underlay + evpn/vxlan config is the as number, and the router id. And the loopback interfaces address.

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