u/Garry_G

I just spent a total of over two days getting our old virtualization platform (Blade center w/ 4 blades, only 16GB SD local storage on each blade, iSCSI storage) running for evals & tests, and still not completely done yet.

Admitted, I have very little hands-on experience setting up iSCSI, so some of the problems might stem from missing knowledge. But getting the systems to a point where at least basically I can operate the systems was such a pain.

I tried using some how-tos, but they seemed somewhat lacking. Then went the AI route w/ Claude, which did seem to work out to some degree - apart from the fact that literally any misstep I took during the manual Debian 13 install broke the Debian installer and forced me to start over (like in a Perma-Death game ...). On Wednesday alone I must have started over about a dozen times at least. When I finally got a system booting the first time, I was happy - until it stopped right after the initial boot. Again, start over, as some important part wasn't right.

At some point, I let Deepseek write something together for the setup, and this time I did get through pretty well, as it elaborated on some points in clearer description and more detailed. I then finally got the first Debian install running with boot directly from iSCSI, and all the way through to shell. Still had some minor things to change, but after that, gettting Proxmox installed on top was a breeze. I'm not all the way there yet, still have to get multipath configured & working for redundancy, but for now I'm just glad it's running. Managed to duplicate the system disk for the two other blades (wanted a 3-node cluster for testing) and adapted, with a separate shared drive for the VMs.

I know part of the setup is dependent of the underlying hardware, but I think if Proxmox brought out an install image that contains setup code for such an install, quite a few people might be really happy!

Hi,

we still have a couple of M630 blades from an earlier virtualization, which I thought about using for a test infrastructure for a potential/probable future Proxmox migration (still have ~2 years of VMware service contract left, but with the expected price increase, no way in h*ll we'll pay for that).
Anyway, seeing that e.g. VMWare doesn't support the VRTX platform beyond 7.03 (due to Dell not providing SPERC drivers for ESXi8), I was wondering if anybody has information on whether current Proxmox/Linux supports that integrated SPERC controller? I only found some older posts where it sounded like it was supported, though I couldn't find anything more current than 3-5 years ago ...

Edit: we do not have the vrtx chassis, just the original E1000 with external EMC storage, which are "too big" for just a test environment... I was thinking about either swapping our old parts for it or buying a vrtx....

Edit2: According to Dell, different Linux version are officially supported: https://www.dell.com/support/home/de-de/drivers/supportedos/poweredge-vrtx e.g. RHEL, SLES & Ubuntu 12 ...

Unkontrolliert Gas gegeben: 83-Jähriger prallt mit Roller gegen eine Mauer und stürzt ... Es muss nicht immer ein Auto sein...

Demnächst bekomme ich meinen PV-Speicher (AC-gekoppelt), bei dem auch zusätzlich ein SmartMeter dabei ist (wobei rein theoretisch auch der vorhandene Shelly 3EM unterstütz sein sollte). Da für den Speicher eh eine Wieland-Dose angebracht werden sollen, und ich von 2 Zählern auf §14a umbauen lassen will, hab ich beim Elektriker ein Angebot für die Arbeiten angefragt. Da kam jetzt was, lt. dem für den SmartMeter (Anschaltung mit Meßklemmen) zusätzlich drei 10A-Automaten verbaut werden sollen.
Was für einen Sinn hat das? Von den Kosten vernachlässigbar, aber Platz könnte knapp werden ... Ja, ich weiß daß der SmartMeter ja an den drei Phasen zusätzlich angeklemmt wird, und daß man mit separaten Automaten auch mal nur den SmartMeter neu start kann, falls der mal abstürzt, aber darüber hinaus ist das doch nicht wirklich notwendig, oder???

Bericht, Osthessen News

Contrary to what some FTNT folks told us many months ago, it seems like the VPN-Only client is really gone ... 8.0.0 came out yesterday, and no VPN-only archive available (haven't tried installing it yet, though)

What viable alternatives are there for Windows & Mac instead? I have configs for Linux & StrongSWAN to connect with IPSEC, though of course MFA is not included there ...