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Recently switched to Veeam 13 - Didn't pick the VM appliance as is had an loony password policy where you had to enter a complex password in the console (no web or ssh access) without even knowing the keyboard layout.. Switched to plain old windows and decided to try out the web interface.

I mean its not bad, but not great. a whole lot of features missing and was hoping to get a better single plane of glass view.

What do you think?

I'm a Veeam partner so I get NFR licenses with up to 100 VMs, i have 160 or so VMs but only 60 is powered on, so fits quite nicely.

Spent some time this Sunday to install a new Checkmk Agent on my ESOS SAN as it was recently re-installed / upgraded to get 32 Gb FC support and replace an really old 3ware raid controller..

Now I can do all monitoring using storcli64 that significantly improve things like SMART monitoring.

Metrics from Checkmk are sent to VictoriaMetrics in InfluxDB format that I directly consume in Grafana using a Prometheus datastore to my VM cluster.

Next weekend I will tackle the monitoring I have setup to Mattermost as I'm getting flooded with way to many alerts..

Yes the Samsung drives are 8 years (!) old and have had some bad luck with bad connectors, overheated SAS MUX etc. Just one have died badly (15 drives vs 16)

No, the temp is not as bad as you'd think, this have been running for years and years :)

Several weeks months my secondary UPS battery failed health-checks. Fast forward a few weeks ago i had some storage issue and at the same time got a power outage. Did not loose any data but had to spend a whole lot of time rebuilding the array.

Where I live there are rarely power outages. All power lines are in the ground, the network generally is redundant (power can be re-routed) - and that might have been what happened as the outage was less than 1s.

Anyhow, time to build a battery replacement as buying original batteries is just out of the question. I have done this before with my first UPS unit (I have two) with great success.

Currently using two APC 750 UPSs with around 20 minutes of battery power each, plenty to shut stuff down but not enough to run my Homelab on. Living in an apartment makes it quite difficult to survice.

UPS is however feeding all networking and firewall equipment and with FTTH that part is passive so in theory i would at least be able to send notifications in case something bad happens... 😎

I have been doing this for some time but this weekend i decided to add more relevant logs to block more logs from my Xeams mail gateway appliance.

My log list now contains

• authTerminate — bad AUTH attempts
• helloTerminate — bad EHLO/HELO
• invalidRecipients — directory harvesting
• rcptTerminate — invalid RCPT
• timeoutTerminate — connection timeouts
• GreyListing — persistent greylisted senders
• ForgedSenders — forged sender addresses

This feels almost like a honeypot due to the number of "attacks" - just during this afternoon 105 decisions was made to block traffic, to my mail server alone ✌️

All decisions are fed into a blocklist that my TWO Juniper vSRX firewalls subscribe to and is part of global deny rules in the firewall.

It does not matter if a IP tried to perform a wordpress attach or connect over SMTP - you shall not pass.... ❤️‍🔥

This might end up on Github soon..

I cant believe it

My third Silverstone RS831S broke down after a power failure (i think it would have survived unless I also had an UPS issue) just after I spend a week re-building my 65TB array after a drive failure.

I'm a big fan of these Silverstone enclosures but they have a power draw issue, not ideal with the larger SATA drives.. This is the third, and last one dying...

But one night, spending some quality time on eBay i found my dream enclosure, i have been lurking for these for some time now, but are rare and super expensive new (between 4000-8000 euros)

But I found one in France, the same week my previous enclosure died on me. what are the odds?

My main reasons are:

1.) Space - I have to fit these in my closets with around 45cm max depth.

2.) Noice - Most other compact enclosures (EMC etc.) can fit but controlling all these fans is hard if possible at all.

I will have 10 drives for my main "NAS" and the 6 other slots will be used for Enterprise SAS 12Gb SSDs with the goal of replacing my ancient 16x250Gb all flash array. No need for NVME here :)

Currently I'm making an attempt to repair an really old 8x8TB QNAP with very low confidence that it will work - It contains old SD movies I lost years ago and haven't bothered trying to restore due to the complexity...

I cant believe it

My third Silverstone RS831S broke down after a power failure (i think it would have survived unless I also had an UPS issue) just after I spend a week re-building my 65TB array after a drive failure.

I'm a big fan of these Silverstone enclosures but they have a power draw issue, not ideal with the larger SATA drives.. This is the third, and last one dying...

But one night, spending some quality time on eBay i found my dream enclosure, i have been lurking for these for some time now, but are rare and super expensive new (between 4000-8000 euros)

But I found one in France, the same week my previous enclosure died on me. what are the odds?

My main reasons are

1.) Space - I have to fit these in my closets with around 45cm max depth.

2.) Noice - Most other compact enclosures (EMC etc.) can fit but controlling all these fans is hard if possible at all.

I will have 10 drives for my main "NAS" and the 6 other slots will be used for Enterprise SAS 12Gb SSDs with the goal of replacing my ancient 16x250Gb all flash array. No need for NVME here :)

Currently I'm making an attempt to repair an really old 8x8TB QNAP with very low confidence that it will work - It contains old SD movies I lost years ago and haven't bothered trying to restore due to the complexity...