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Category: Proxmox

  • Manually Creating a ZFS Pool From Mismatched Drives

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    I recently suffered a drive failure on my main ZFS array. Naturally I wasn’t as prepared for this even as I should have been so I wasn’t 100% sure how to go about replacing the drive. I decided to press my old rack server into action to get some practice in before working on the…

  • Task Management with Vikunja

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    Vikunja is a task / project management application. The unpronounceable name apparently comes from a relative of the llama, overlooking the name for a moment this appears to be a great application. Deployment is a little trickier than with most applications as it, at a minimum, comes as three parts. You have a database, the…

  • A Stupid Failure With a Home Lab – Out of Disk Space

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    I’ve just had what is probably the most ridiculous failure in my home lab. I found that my media download server was not longer running properly, the services were coming up but they were failing left right and centre. I noticed that most of my SMB mounts weren’t mounted so I manually mounted them, that…

  • Creating a Debian LXC Container on Proxmox

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    I said previously that I wasn’t going to write this article but now I come to properly think about it I feel it’s worth it. Part of why I write these articles is to help beginners get started with tools that they would often be nervous about just diving into. If I can get someone…

  • Deploying a Jellyfin Server

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    Today I’ll be deploying a Jellyfin server as a Docker container. I’ve used Jellyfin for several years now, and I find it to be an excellent media server. Prior to Jellyfin I use Plex. I have to admit, Plex is good, but Jellyfin is better. The set up I’m describing here is what I use…

  • Creating a Personal Music Server – Navidrome

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    In this article I’ll be installing an configuring a personal music server based on Navidrome. The first part of the install will be specific to my home network setup which is covered in numerous other posts. Music Share Setup The step assumes that you have a file server configured as per the Building a NAS…

  • Proxmox Firewall

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    Today I’ll be looking at the Proxmox firewall and what to do about container and VM firewalls. Out of the box Proxmox comes with a firewall installed but not activated. At a minimum you should probably activate the Proxmox firewall for the cluster but it’s up to you how you protect the containers and VM’s…

  • Installing Docker and Portainer on a Proxmox VM

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    This article will cover installing Docker and Portainer on a Proxmox VM, we created the VM in the previous article. There’s a bit of a shift in the home server Proxmox world over to using containers rather than Docker. Personally, I’m on the fence with this. On the one hand containers are good because they…

  • Creating a Basic VM on Proxmox

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    In this article I’ll be creating a new virtual machine that will run Docker. This machine will eventually host a number of services for my family such as a music server and photo viewing, but that’s for another day. BIOS Settings Some of the information here is specific to my motherboard (MSI B550 Gaming Gen3…

  • Installing Pi-Hole on Proxmox

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    In this article I’ll be installing Pi-Hole on Proxmox. Pi-Hole is a DNS sinkhole or blackhole that can effectively block ads and other unwanted content. It works by replacing your usual DNS server with Pi-Hole and then dishing up non-routable addresses for unwanted content based on a block list. In this article we’ll be installing…

  • Building a NAS Using Proxmox – Part 3

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    This is the third article in the series about using Proxmox as a NAS. For this article to make sense you’ll need to have a container set up and sharing host files via Samba similar to shat was set up in step one and two. In this article I’ll look at mapping container users onto…

  • Building a NAS Using Proxmox – Part 2

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    The setup described in this article will work if you have a followed the first article in this series however it is not an optimal setup. Once you’ve read the next article in this series you’ll understand the weaknesses in the setup described here and how to fix them. This article also covers a couple…