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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.

A long time ago, I came upon some 8TB WD USB3 drives. They serve a decent purpose in my ghetto fabulous compute server - they were the data drives for all the joy hanging out on my M.2 drives. Now it was time to bid adieu to my HyperV

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:

There are times when I'm happy, but sad at the same time. This has always been the case, but it comes into sharp relief when I'm not sad at anyone, but rather, the mixed situation I find myself in. I'm happy because yesterday I