Author: JoeKewle

I have been working in the IT industry for about 20 years. I have a BS in Computer Science, and a MS in IT Management. I currently work mostly with Windows Server, VMWare, and other Microsoft technologies. I also have a pretty overkill homelab that I tinker with. I put up this site to hopefully document stupid stuff I find, or stuff I spent way too long figuring out so maybe I can help someone.

Proxmox 8.0 and iSCSI boot

Posted by — October 14, 2023 in Uncategorized
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I’m trying out Proxmox on my ESXi servers, so as before, I’m trying to install on an iSCSI boot drive. I used this the following websites for reference:https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/install-pve-directly-on-iscsi-target.101750/https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1217221/html/GUID-2A8546C7-347A-40B0-B937-4B31DAAA16DA.html First step, make sure your LUN target has ID of…

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Update to VMWare ESXi 8.0 with Unsupported CPUs

Posted by — January 9, 2023 in Uncategorized
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Obligatory: DON’T DO THIS IN A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT, YOU SHOULDN’T REALLY DO THIS AT ALL I use two Atom C2550 servers in my homelab so I can have a little redundancy and can offload some low priority, low…

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Pi-Hole fails after update from Ubuntu 18 to 20

Posted by — October 2, 2020 in Uncategorized
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I went balls to the wall and updated my Ubuntu servers to Ubuntu 20. One issue I had was Pi-Hole not working. FTL didn’t want to start. Found this website and it fixed it right away: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/dns-service-is-not-running-ubuntu-19-10/30157/6 Quick…

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ESXi and iSCSI Boot

Posted by — January 31, 2020 in Homelab
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I have three ESXi hosts, two of which are diskless other than a USB boot/OS disk. Since I had a USB disk failure, I thought it would be a perfect time to figure out iSCSI boot for ESXi….

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Backup Freenas to another Local Freenas using rsync

Posted by — February 20, 2019 in Uncategorized
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Systems: Freenas1 (Freenas 11.2U2) – Source Freenas2 (Freenas 11.2U2) – Destination On the destination system, create a Dataset for the files that you will be receiving, for me it was going to reside on /mnt/Backup1/Shares. To create a…

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Virtualized PFSense Instance Fails to get IP Address from Cable Modem

Posted by — March 2, 2018 in Homelab

I recently upgraded my home cable speed from 300Mbps to 400Mbps.  The cable modem Spectrum gave me a while back when I upgraded to 300 didn’t quite do 400Mbps, so they gave me a new modem.  Shortly after…

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PowerConnect 5548P – Noctua fan replacement

Posted by — March 2, 2018 in Homelab

The PowerConnect 5548P is pretty loud, mainly due to the 600 watt PSU inside.  Taking the switch apart, there are two fans on the back of the unit, and two fans inside the PSU. The PSU fans make…

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