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I finally managed to boot into Proxmox on the Dell R630. I won't tell you how long it took me to figure out I wasn't using UEFI.

#homelab

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My weekend #homelab project is migrating from ESXI to Proxmox. I installed Proxmox on my Dell R730 this morning. Next, I played with restoring VMs to Proxmox from Veeam; there were a couple of bumps, but VM restore was a success.

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@ChristianLempa It’s only ever important when I need to see why and how I did something a year ago.

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My "Gaming" PC is 10 years old and needed a bit more ooomph. Today i swapped my mobo, cpu, ram with my unraid server. Unraid won't be doing much computer in the future so i'm happy with it running on an older i5.
Just need to migrate everything over to the R630.

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Had time to play around with XCP-NG last night. Installed the Community Edition of Xen Orchestra.
Spun up an Ubuntu server that will be my main docker host. Need to plan my migration from Unraid over to the new docker host. Unraid will still be my main storage.

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Upgraded from some old failing 1TB an 2TB drives to 4TB Seagate IronWolf Pro's. Storage space sorted for a while now.

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@xcpng I’ve literally just finished installing. Testing out what to use for my homelab.

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My very first Youtube video just uploaded. Roast me if needed!
https://t.co/9004suvyP6

#homelab #idrac

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Today I’ve sat in my garden in shorts and t-shirt eating mince pies.

It’s October.

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Looks like Philips Hue accounts are becoming mandatory. Time to make use of my zigbee dongle and get off their app and bridge.

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@MarcLachapelle I have tried that out in the past and I remember us was put off by something but I can’t remember what it was. It’s my home lab so no bother trying them all out.

Just not Hyper-V

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Spent some time running firmware and bios updates today. All prepared for an OS to be installed.

I'm thinking Proxmox but i'm tempted to try out ESXI.

#homelab

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Dell R630 arrived. Spent way too long attempting to reset the iDRAC password. Reset via bios would not work, resetting iDRAC to default would not work. In the end I had to use the jumper method.

Password reset and then I spent the next 50 mins updating iDRAC.

#homelab

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Awaiting delivery of a Dell R630 I snagged for a bargain off eBay. No ram but I’ve got 32Gb lying around.

Hopefully it’s not a dud!

#homelab

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@hibberthometech I thought that was going to be an AI generated video of a busty woman with your face, not your face as a bust.

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@MarcLachapelle I’ve heard good and bad. I’ve recently bought a Sonoff zigbee dongle so hopefully i don’t have any issues.

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Just bought my first Ikea Tradfri bulb, am i in for a world of hurt?

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@ElonMuskAOC Still has the resemblance of a bird. Better than the current one.

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I've always shied away from Rclone. Just got it set up and configured for OneDrive.

Super simple and now i can back up some important data to OneDrive.

#Backups #Unraid #Rclone

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I tried to reduce the amount of cache drives I have in my Unraid server and broke my cache. Had to reinstall my docker containers from scratch. Luckily I had my appdata backed up.

#unraid #backups #homelab