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Creating a Proxmox 3-node cluster using Zima board computers – 10 watts!

Posted on May 4, 2023 by Kurt Weiske

As I posted about wanting to make a 3-node high-availability cluster out of commodity USFF desktop PCs, I found this video outlining a 3-node Intel CPU cluster that runs on 10 watts of power! The cluster uses a SBC called… Continue Reading →

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CEPH and Proxmox VE

Posted on May 4, 2023 by Kurt Weiske

I’ve wanted to add high-availability to my Proxmox cluster, but I’ve got some work to do first. CEPH is a distributed storage system that can be used as a storage backend in Proxmox VE. CEPH provides highly available and fault-tolerant… Continue Reading →

ceph, proxmox
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Proxmox VE 7.4 released

Posted on March 24, 2023 by Kurt Weiske

Proxmox is an open-source bare metal virtualization system I use in my homelab. Proxmox supports clustering, high availability and backup using industry standard tools running on relatively mod-free Debian Linux, qemu and kvm. It supports any hardware supported by Debian,… Continue Reading →

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Proxmox VE 7.3 released

Posted on November 23, 2022 by Kurt Weiske

Proxmox is an open-source bare metal virtualization system I use in my homelab – based on Debian and qemu, it supports a wide variety of hardware. Proxmox VE version 7.3 has been released and the upgrade from 7.2 went without… Continue Reading →

proxmox ve
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Proxmox First Steps

Posted on November 17, 2022 by Kurt Weiske

TechnoTim has a great homelab how-to channel on YouTube. This video shows all the steps he’d do when creating a Proxmox server for the first time. Setting update sources, reconfiguring storage, setting up networking and VLANs, updating ISOs, preparing for… Continue Reading →

proxmox, TechnoTim
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Cheap Home Office Fix – HDMI audio with multiple PCs

Posted on August 28, 2022 by Kurt Weiske

Many people are working from home exclusively or a couple of days a week as part of a hybrid work environment. With a few tweaks, a home office can do double-duty nicely. My home office has evolved recently, as I’ve… Continue Reading →

home office
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Proxmox helper scripts

Posted on May 25, 2022 by Kurt Weiske

I use Proxmox as the basis for my homelab. Proxmox is an open source bare-metal hypervisor with support for a wide array of hardware (if Linux runs on it, it’ll probably run Proxmox…) Proxmox offers many enterprise-level features, like clustering,… Continue Reading →

github, homelab, proxmox
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Bring Your Own Device

Posted on May 18, 2022 by Kurt Weiske
Microsoft Teams for IOS

Work/life separation is important to me, but being able to effectively manage responsibility in a fast-pace environment is a key to success. A key to that success is being able to be reached quickly and easily when I’m working. Over… Continue Reading →

BYOD, Microsoft Teams, work-life balance
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Logitech Zone wireless headsets

Posted on May 2, 2022 by Kurt Weiske

In an earlier post, I talked about how I built an effective home/work office by using Logitech’s MX Keys keyboard and MX Master mouse with 2 unifying receivers. I put one receiver in my home PC, one in my work… Continue Reading →

headsets, home office, logitech, productivity, work-life balance
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The Worst Part of Working From Home Is Now Haunting Reopened Offices

Posted on March 29, 2022 by Kurt Weiske
My office circa March 2020

slate.com has an excellent article entitled The Worst Part of Working From Home Is Now Haunting Reopened Offices that’s worth a read. I’m concerned with “return to office” rhetoric that sounds too much like trying to go back to the… Continue Reading →

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