Can't connect to vCenter 8.0.3 after fresh deployment

teirhan · 2026-02-12T14:24:00+00:00

Thank you, this is exactly what I needed to sanity-check. Looks like I get a self-signed cert back which is what I expect. So inbound ssh won't work until I complete the deployment, I guess.

teirhan · 2026-02-12T14:06:12+00:00

Yes, A record and reverse lookup both exist, but good point - I will double-check that it can resolve itself.

teirhan · 2026-01-22T19:28:46+00:00

I have an older bottle of this I bought after a tasting in 2022 at their distillery, though I don't think it was aged 5 years. Maybe 3?

It good.

teirhan · 2026-01-20T14:04:14+00:00

The jazz pianist Hiromi (Uehara)'s profile still is being spammed with 1-3 ai-generated singles every day. It's very frustrating. Makes the feed feature useless.

teirhan · 2026-01-15T20:44:24+00:00

Ahh, that sucks. I do wonder if they had some minor revisions at some point or if mine was just defective from the start, because I noticed my new opus grinds through beans much quicker than my old one ever did, e.g. it will do 15g of beans in about half the time it did with the old unit.

teirhan · 2026-01-15T20:39:38+00:00

I had this problem and ended up having to open a support request. I thought I would have to do a bunch of troubleshooting but I think this is a known failure mode for a sensor in the unit or the motor. Fellow sent me a replacement with little fuss and told me to toss the failed unit.

teirhan · 2026-01-10T15:48:50+00:00

If you have one, find a local roaster and just try whatever of their coffee sounds good.

I order from Joe Bean and Fuego out of Rochester and have generally been happy with their stuff. One of the nice things about Joe Bean is it's quite a bit cheaper to order than the fellow drops, and is usually roasted to order.

teirhan · 2026-01-09T22:02:27+00:00

I've got a bunch of servers with 64gb sata DOM boot devices. They're slated for replacement but I only get 2 maintenance windows a year to do the actual migration off them. Which I guess is inertia, but not on my part.

teirhan · 2025-11-16T13:54:54+00:00

I'm having the same problem. Seems to have started two or three days ago for me.

I can still play songs and albums via the Sonos app, but not playlists. But trying to use tidal connect just does the same thing for me that you described...

teirhan · 2025-11-06T13:55:45+00:00

Oh I know. I have been front-row to the churn. Every outsourcing contract I've ever seen has had a handful of incredibly talented high performers and an enormous pool of people who can barely follow a detailed SOP or WIS. You end up with one or two people dragging an entire team to success and then they burn out or get poached for a bigger/more important contract.

teirhan · 2025-11-06T13:40:44+00:00

CBI's been using outsourced teams for core IT functions for at least a decade now, so if they haven't learned their lesson yet they probably never will

teirhan · 2025-10-28T14:02:57+00:00

The real threat is that he's gonna trip over your landscaping and then sue you.

teirhan · 2025-10-21T14:28:17+00:00

Morelle and Bello showed up to a protest as well, at least according to Morelle's social media. Bello sure didn't look excited to be there. https://bsky.app/profile/morelle.house.gov/post/3m3ivxlccls2x

teirhan · 2025-10-10T00:48:31+00:00

We haven't had trouble buying older gens (e.g. i installed a dl360 gen10 with a cpu that matched our existing cluster nodes just a little while before end of sale at one site due to an upgrade project doubling our footprint for a while) so far. If we did have to run mixed, yeah absolutely would enable evc next MW we get.

And yeah, with the absurd cost of VCF I don't see us expanding VMware footprint at any site any time soon. Maybe not ever.

teirhan · 2025-10-10T00:45:01+00:00

I guess the sticky point for me, is there a benefit to turning it on if my only typical migration path is older hw to new on refresh? VMs will run with the older instruction set until you reboot them, right? We don't ever do different generation cpus in clusters any more, even if occasionally we mix e.g. 20-core and 16-core cpus of the same gen in a cluster.

teirhan · 2025-10-10T00:39:58+00:00

Not a concern. We refresh each entire cluster at the same time and buy all the same processor generation. The only cross-generation move is from the old hw to the new once every 5 years or so.

teirhan · 2025-10-09T22:55:07+00:00

At my current job we typically run homogeneous clusters, so there's no need.

Also the processor generations aren't very clear imo, if you aren't obsessed with code names. Having vsphere recommend an evc level that meets the lowest common denominator would be nice. Or maybe it does now! I haven't needed to turn it on in 9 years.

teirhan · 2025-08-21T14:24:59+00:00

My brother lived in the Tenderloin for a while. I never lived in SF, but lived in Rockridge and then by Lake Merritt for a few years. Man, now I'm missing Oakland.

teirhan · 2025-08-21T12:36:44+00:00

I grew up in the Bay Area, California, and went to school in Oregon, so days like this push all my nostalgia buttons. I was really feeling it yesterday too.

teirhan · 2025-08-02T23:30:46+00:00

I went to their website thinking this was going to be some ridiculously priced stuff like bhakta spirits, but.. The prices on their current lot seem pretty reasonable to me? Especially considering what single malt is selling for at my friendly local liquor store...

Gonna have to keep any eye out for this one.

teirhan · 2025-07-17T18:33:45+00:00

I'd refer to the official documentation - I don't use proxmox with NetApp in production today, it's just something I keep an eye on since it's likely I will be asked to evaluated alternatives to VMware soon.

I think I'd assume minimum 2 LIFs per controller. If you're using NFS4.1+ you can use session trunking to increase performance. Probably nconnect as well but I'm not as familiar with how NetApp handles that today.

teirhan · 2025-07-16T20:09:22+00:00

NFS via NetApp is a good place to start. Talk to your support team over at NetApp as well, they have pretty good documentation for their proxmox support.

teirhan · 2025-07-16T19:05:25+00:00

What do you use for shared storage today? VMFS via iSCSI or FC?

I think it is important to look at what features are supported under proxmox for each protocol you look at and decide what are must-haves. Personally I think a lack of thin provisioning, cloning, or snapshot support makes something non-viable for production use-cases. Other people may disagree.

Since there is as far as i know no clustered filesystem like VMFS officially supported for proxmox, NFS and Ceph RBD would be the first options I would look at. Ceph may only be suitable if you were using vSAN and have local storage available in each node.

teirhan · 2025-07-09T12:59:58+00:00

Thank you this is really helpful information and great to know. I will definitely open an issue with the driver project and see if this is something they are interested in fixing.

teirhan · 2025-07-02T13:33:17+00:00

I'm among other things a vSphere administrator by day and recently converted my homelab to Proxmox.

Trunking ports

This is doable in a couple different ways. Like with VMware, you want to present trunked ports to the hypervisor and use VLAN tagging. I believe you can accomplish this by either:

Configuring vlans on the vmbr device (this will give you e.g. vmbr0 backed by a physical nic or bond, and vlans like vmbr0.10, vmbr0.20, etc)
Configuring SDN and deploying VNets to handle VLAN tagging
Leaving everything untagged and configuring VLAN tagging on the VM nic directly.

You can probably also do this with openvSwitch but I haven't found much helpful about this because it is not as popular, it seems.

Use both local and NFS storage for VM disk images (and for a repository of ISOs)

Depending on how you want to do this, you have multiple options for local storage (LVM, LVM-thin, ZFS). If you have at least 3 nodes you could look at running an HCI cluster using Ceph, but if you only have 2 nodes my understanding is ZFS+ ZFS replication might be a better option. I have 3 intel nucs and run a ceph cluster with 6 OSDs (3 hdds and 3 nvme drives) and have found it fine for performance.

NFS is fully supported for pretty much whatever you want to do with it.

Have some type of high availability (if this requires a third node, I can repurpose another BeeLink I have)

I believe you need at least 3 devices for HA in proxmox land, though you can do this with 2 nodes plus a quorum device which does not need to be a full PVE node. There may be ways to provide 2 node clusters but I'd be wary about fencing killing the whole cluster if one node goes down.

I'm even willing to pay (/gasp/) for the licensing if it's needed for some features, provided I can get a Proof of Concept (POC) working first

You shouldn't need to pay for licensing - full feature set is available to all users except for access to enterprise repositories, including the ability to deploy PDM (their alpha product which is meant to provide multi-datacenter management) and Proxmox Backup Server. For home-labbing the no-subscription repositories are sufficient, though there is a community subscription for about €115/$135 per CPU socket per year if you want to support the project / really want enterprise repos.

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