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Tag: Proxmox

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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. Create a new Minimal Debian VM For a VM like this you want the bare minimum…

  • 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…

  • Building a NAS Using Proxmox – Part 1

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    The first thing many people do with their home server is set up file sharing. If you’re running an OS such as TrueNAS this is really simple, but I’m running Proxmox so that I can also easily run virtual machines and this has one big downside: Proxmox is not really set up to act as…

  • Automatically Scrubbing ZFS Under Proxmox

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    I thought this one was going to be a challenge to set up but it turns out it’s set up automatically to scrub the disks on the server Sunday of every month. The important files for this setup are: The file in cron.d sets the schedule and calls the scrub script which actually performs the…

  • Understanding the Default Filesystem on Proxmox

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    When you install Proxmox it’s quite common to choose just a single local disk and let the installer use LVM to partition it. This turns the drive into a physical volume (PV) onto which the installer will create a single volume group (VG) called pve. Inside that volume group the installer will create three logical…