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homelab Proxmox
In all candor, Proxmox is partially in the homelab because it was the first open source type 1 hypervisor I came across. While quite powerful, I had no desire to run Openstack in the homelab. I had concerns about the long term viability of vmware (they have proven to be justified) and, showing my ignorance, I never…
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homelab update 05-27-2024
Reversed the decision to run Pi-hole in a VM after I couldn’t do maintenance on Proxmox with losing internet access. In the process of migrating Pi-hole to dedicated hardware. Will leave the VM instance in place as a fallback.
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homelab Pi‐hole
Pi-hole should have been installed second. Unfortunately, it was near number 10 or so. Servers started arriving and I wanted to get them on the network. I also had not picked out a naming convention for the servers (ultimately decided to use Marvel characters) so setting up static IP addresses in DNS was mostly off…
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homelab pfSense
I chose pfSense as the firewall. Not claiming it was after some exhaustive search, it wasn’t. I know that there are other options, here are some of the reasons pfSense was selected. I do have a suggestion here, if you plan on deploying a standalone DNS/DHCP server make it the second software installed. I retrofit…