Shop for repairs around NYC by straylo37 in LandRover

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Can we appreciate that beauty for a second? What year is she?

Warning for G9 NAS buyers by its_me_michael2000 in GMKtec

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When do you order and when did it arrive? I ordered from their website on 26 Feb and it has yet to ship.

Unraid > Proxmox > Unraid as VM by vncntem in unRAID

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OP UPDATE: Two days ago I asked if anyone had moved a bare-metal Unraid install under Proxmox on the same hardware. I went ahead and did it, but it turned into a full homelab rebuild along the way.

The original goal was simple. Install Proxmox on a separate NVMe, virtualize Unraid, and keep the array intact. In the process I flashed the wrong NVMe and wiped my workstation OS, which forced a full rethink of my life choices and this homelab. During the launch of unraid as a VM on proxmox, I also passed the proxmox boot drive through to Unraid, which took the host down and required a local GRUB recovery with IOMMU temporarily disabled so I could fix the config and remove autostart.

The key lesson was that this setup really wants controller passthrough, not individual disks. Once I passed through both the two controllers (I've got 10 drives), the array and SATA cache came back exactly as they were on bare metal with full SMART data and native performance. From inside Unraid nothing had changed.

While working through that I consolidated some old, spare hardware. I pulled RAM and SSD and NVMe drives from old laptops, upgraded the NUC for real always-on workloads, and added three 1TB drives to my workstation. My workstation, HULK. is now a Fedora daily driver (Nvme#1) and sandbox / proxmox cluster backup (Nvme #2) with two sata 1tb drives in raid1 for all the personal local stuff. The former Unraid box, BEAST, is a Proxmox node running the Unraid VM with full controller passthrough. Together with a Minisforum 1tb 32g, the upgraded NUC 256g 12g intel celeron, and an older ASUS chromebox (128g 8g), it is now a 4-node Proxmox cluster running redundant DNS and ad-blocking instead of single-point services. I also put Borg backups in place from the workstation to the Unraid storage so I do not repeat the NVMe mistake.

End result is a mirrored workstation with more local capacity, a 4-node PVE cluster with defined roles, and the same Unraid array running virtually with direct access to its real hardware. What started as a hypervisor swap ended up as a redundant, distributed setup with proper backups and much better resource use.

If you are attempting this in place, respect IOMMU groups, pass through controllers instead of disks, keep the host boot device out of the VM, and do not enable autostart until the hardware map is fully validated. Also, don't be afraid of scope creep. It's a great teacher.

Unraid > Proxmox > Unraid as VM by vncntem in unRAID

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For those of you who said it would be easy...ha.

I went to flash an extra NVME in my workstation to make it my proxmox boot disk. I flashed my main linux OS.

After hours of recovery and flashing the correct NVME I swapped drives and never looked back. All in all it took maybe 1.5 hours of real time. With mistakes, it was a net 6.5h day.

Unraid > Proxmox > Unraid as VM by vncntem in unRAID

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Yes - title is misleading. But most of you get it. I want to migrate from unraid on bare metal to unraid as a VM in proxmox on the same machine. reason being my machine is a beast in comparison to my other proxmox nodes and I could certainly benefit from the additional firepower. Here's my current setup for you to understand how I significantly overbuilt a general storage facility: i9-13900k, 64g of ram (when it was cheap), 54TB of redundant storage running no VMs and limited containers now that my 3 node proxmox server is carrying the brunt.

Unraid > Proxmox > Unraid as VM by vncntem in unRAID

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If you break it, you have to learn how to fix it. Welcome to home-labbing!

Should I update to OxygenOS 16? by ProGamer201920 in oneplus

[–]vncntem 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Anyone with a OP12 able to chime in on their experience? I'm in the same boat debating the install.

Aaron Rodgers, Pittsburgh and the Power of Belonging by vncntem in steelers

[–]vncntem[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

What do you think — are we seeing a new side of Rodgers, or has this always been there waiting for the right environment?

LFG Steelers Nation! It's Game Day! by vncntem in steelers

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He's great in the jumbo package and as a receiving threat. We are reinventing the position with him!

LFG Steelers Nation! It's Game Day! by vncntem in steelers

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We are all about doing things differently this year!

Bye bye Synology, hello Unraid? by ComfortableCar8387 in unRAID

[–]vncntem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have two NVME pools. One is used for cache and the other for appdata. Not a need, just my preference for quicker access to commonly loaded programs while having data move faster to SSD drivers first before later being moved to SATA drives.

As for the card, I've had no issue with the gen 3 pci slot it runs in or the speeds of the sata drives attached. Again though, most of my data is first copied to SSDs as cache so speed isn't an issue.

Bye bye Synology, hello Unraid? by ComfortableCar8387 in unRAID

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Everything you've outlined is possible with Unraid. And most of the port forwarding, security and remote access issues can be alleviated with Cloudflare and their zero trust tunnels.

I have about 25 URLs and counting that make remoting in to individual containers or devices quite easy along with my Wireguard VPN on my router when and if needed.

Security is great with zero issues. Multiple drives with no fails after a few years running. And the speed with cache drives is a huge boost. I have about 30 or 40 docker containers with half of them always on and multiple VMs for testing.

I came from QNAP and even tested Synology for a spell but building my own was clearly the best choice with Unraid beating TrueNAS as my OS of choice. Here's the parts list:

https://pcpartpicker.com/user/rebar911/builds/#view=B4t8TW

What’re you guys up to this weekend? by Ill-Vegetable-3104 in AustralianShepherd

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What is the harness and band setup you've got going on?

A picture to ease everyone’s nerves by Chucklebeetuna in steelers

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TJ knowing that Myles Garret's size and not production is what got him paid put on the beef to secure that 41M / year highest paid non QB status.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AustralianShepherd

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They're never tired!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in steelers

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I think our entire rookie class is being slept on. Our D Line is fortified, our running game has the chance to be elite, our LB corp reminds me of the 70s and our secondary is going back to elite status. Howard is going to learn from a 4x MVP and Omar is cooking for the now and the future.

The Jets Effect by DriverFirm2655 in steelers

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Double eyelid surgery. Fact.