networking

Having a big family means making sacrifices. I had my own closet in the house to run my noisy server. It paired nicely with the wiring drop for all the wires in the house (network/phone/audio visual/etc). But, alas, that room needed to no longer be the guest

Now that my two servers are built, it's time to build the ultimate VM - my daily non-work driver. There's something special about this VM though: This will not do. In fact, it won't do at all. Other than Civilizations, which I've

So, Linux VMs imported fine - this is good. There was some wonkiness with the network adapters as HyperV names them different, so I had to adjust the netplans to match the new adapters. Next, I needed to install the guest agent which was easy enough, although not strictly required.

In our last encounter, I had teased you with my need for more. Specifically, more storage since I had ditched all those spinning disks. I've been a YouTube Premium subscriber for like ten years and had somehow NEVER been introduced to "TechTube." Boy did I go

About two years ago, I purchased myself a pretty sweet deal on Ebay: Dell RX730xd 2 x 2.5Ghz Xeon Gold 128 GB ECC RAM 28 TB RAW 2 x 1oGB Ethernet and 2x 1GB Ethernet At the time, it was to be may main multi-purpose server for the home:

I really love my network at home and the small network I've built over the past few years up in the cloud. It's gone through a number of machinations to suit my needs, but I've decided to finally start writing things down in case