#proxmox

[coral-reefer-420]

hey guys check out my server. it runs proxmox btw :)

[techav]

On Regular Maintenance

As I've mentioned before, I run a Proxmox VM server at home. It's a fun insanely-overpowered bit of hardware I've cobbled together over the years from what I had on hand or could get for as close to nothing as I could.

One foreseeable problem with the setup is I initially set it up with cheap consumer SSDs for boot drives. Proxmox is very heavy-handed with SSDs and I've been watching the wearout on one of the drives steadily tick higher.

Well the day finally came. I woke up to an email from the server informing me of a SMART error on one disk: wearout had hit 101%. Definitely time for replacement before things go south.

Luckily I had been procrastinating was prepared for this event and had new SSDs on-hand to swap in.

So a fun evening of watching paint dry ZFS resilvering followed. Sure beats data loss.

[proxmox-official]

Uhhh pinned post time 📌

Hi frens @colourfulbutts here. (likes & follows will come from here)

Uhhh cis pan dude from London. I like computer stuff.

I'll update this with tags when I can be bothered but go stalk me in the mean time I guess haha.

I apologise in advance for the spam

[bored-bi]

turns out setting up a minecraft server on the homelab was a mistake because now im just playing minecraft

[geekforcedotcom]

SysAdmin Sunday

One of my ProxMox hypervisor machines has a failing disk. Of course, it's the disk that stores the root filesystem of my homelab DNS server.

remediated by pulling a backup of running Pi-hole and restoring to the other hypervisor, running from an NVME drive now.

The best thing about running a Pi-hole, besides the whole house ad blocking thing, is the skinnable interface.

[virtualizationhowto]

TrueNAS on Proxmox Installation and Configuration Steps

TrueNAS on Proxmox Installation and Configuration Steps - Learn how to install TrueNAS in Proxmox VE Server and configuration tweaks #proxmox #homelab #homeserver #virtualization #diskpassthrough #NAS #storage #proxmoxveserver #vhtforums #selfhosted

Combining TrueNAS with Proxmox is a great way for many to access virtualized storage environments. These integrations combine TrueNAS’s reliable storage capabilities and Proxmox’s virtualization features. Both of these are hugely popular. Let’s take a look at running a TrueNAS VM on top of Proxmox server. Table of contentsWhat is TrueNAS?What is Proxmox?Why is it helpful to run TrueNAS on…

[whimsicalcoder]

Whimsical Systems Podcast #1

[hackeocafe]

DITCH Netflix and Disney - the ULTIMATE Home Server Setup - Full Walkthrough Guide Pt.2

We are building the foundations for our ULTIMATE media server. Creating a VM in Proxmox, getting Ubuntu running, Docker, Hardware Transcoding, shares, and more!

[stevedowe]

HomeLab [2025-06-02]: poorly server

After half-term week, where the hope of getting “adulty” things done gently fades into obscurity, I was chomping at the bit to crack on with #homelab tasks. I had various tasks ahead of me: Strip down and attempted to repair #MicroServer MS03 Install #Proxmox on three MicroServers Tidy and organise all cabling at the back of the cabinet Factory-reset the #Netgear #firewall Sick server A little…

[techdirectarchive]

Resolve the Update Package Database failure on Proxmox VE

Proxmox Virtual Environment provides a complete open-source platform for enterprise virtualization. Its built-in web interface enables you to manage VMs and containers, configure software-defined storage and networking, set up high-availability clustering, and use multiple out-of-the-box tools all in a single solution. In this guide, we shall discuss the steps to resolve the Update Package…

[greenwebpage]

This tutorial offers detailed steps for installing Proxmox on Debian 12.

https://greenwebpage.com/community/how-to-install-proxmox-on-debian-12/

[ai-artz]

[techav]

If It's a Hack and It Works, Is It Really a Hack?

I have a couple servers at home — one running Proxmox VE and one running Proxmox Backup. I use the VM server when I need to spin up a development environment, for running the odd game server, serving files locally, running Home Assistant, etc. I also like to donate spare cycles to Folding@Home. The backup server of course is in case I do something stupid on the VM server.

There's just one problem with that. My second-hand 8-year-old dual-Xeon server runs hot.

It was too much to keep running in my home office. Between the two servers, my desktop, and my work laptop, I was regularly seeing ambient temperatures around 26°C. It was just too warm for comfort.

Last summer I moved my network gear and the two servers into the front coat closet. This was great for me working in my home office, but not so great for my servers. Despite adding a passthrough vent to the closet door and a vent fan to the ceiling, the closet was still consistently in the 26°-30°C range.

The ideal solution would probably be to use an enclosed server rack and run an exhaust vent up from the top. Unfortunately, rack-mount server cases are expensive, enclosed racks are very expensive, and my closet is too small for that anyway.

So I hacked together a solution.

I built a frame out of some cheap 1x2 lumber and wrapped a piece of thin sheet steel around the sides to make a crude plenum. On top, I added a 10x6 register box with a semirigid vent hose coming out of it. This gives me a guide for drawing air out of the servers and guiding it up to the vent fan in the ceiling.

To help things along, I added a 120mm fan inside the register box. But not some whisper-quiet Noctua. This is (if the Amazon listing is to be believed) a 5000 RPM, 210 CFM monster of a fan. It's loud, but moves a lot of air.

Too loud in fact. Its droning could not be silenced by any mere closet door. I had to add a PWM fan speed controller to calm it down. It's a cheap unit from Amazon, but it came with a temperature probe and it has a configurable operating range.

The result? Where previously the entire closet was consistently above 26°C, now it's staying around 23°. There is a difference of 5°C between ambient in the closet and the air inside the exhaust duct, so it is doing its job of redirecting the hot air from the servers.

I call that a successful hack.

[proxmox-official]

Ahaha fucking yoink. Can't beleive noone took this url already

[bored-bi]

ok actually i found out that not having my laptop (getting my keyboard replaced) means i forget like half the ports of the things i host. so i made a lil dashboard. its running Homepage [^] and i set it up so it shows all my nodes, virtual machines, and lxc services. screenshot coming later, i have to edit out some stuff due to an nda

[aboutdirtysocks]

Bold Ideas I know. I own, maybe 10ish computers. They serve various purposes. Ask me more!