I spent a considerable amount of time working through the provisioning scripts for my RKE2 nodes. Each node took between 25-30 minutes to provision. I felt like I could do better. Check the tires A quick evaluation of the process quickly made me realize that most of the time is spent in the full install… Continue reading Speeding up Packer Hyper-V Provisioning
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A big mistake and a bit of bad luck…
In the Home Lab, things were going good. Perhaps a little too good. A bonehead mistake on my part and hardware failure combined to make another ridiculous weekend. I am beginning to think this blog is becoming “Matt messed up again.” Permissions are a dangerous thing I wanted to install the Azure DevOps agent on… Continue reading A big mistake and a bit of bad luck…
Home Lab – No More iSCSI – Backup Plans
This post is part of a short series on migrating my home hypervisor off of iSCSI. It is worth nothing (and quite ironic) that I went through a fire drill last week when I crashed my RKE clusters. That event gave me some fresh eyes into the data that is important to me. How much… Continue reading Home Lab – No More iSCSI – Backup Plans
Home Lab – No More iSCSI: Transfer, Shutdown, and Rebuild
This post is part of a short series on migrating my home hypervisor off of iSCSI. Observations – Migrating Servers The focus of my hobby time over the few days has been moving production assets to the temporary server. Most of it is fairly vanilla, but I have a few observations worth noting. Let me… Continue reading Home Lab – No More iSCSI: Transfer, Shutdown, and Rebuild
Home Lab – No More iSCSI, Prep and Planning
This post is part of a short series on migrating my home hypervisor off of iSCSI. I realized today that my home lab setup, by technology standards, is old. Sure, my overall setup has gotten some incremental upgrades, including an SSD cache for the Synology, a new Unifi Security Gateway, and some other new accessories.… Continue reading Home Lab – No More iSCSI, Prep and Planning
Managing Hyper-V VM Startup Times with .Net Minimal APIs
In a previous post, I had a to-do list that included managing my Hyper-V VMs so that they did not all start at once. I realized today that I never explained what I was able to do or post the code for my solution. So today, you get both. And, for the impatient among you,… Continue reading Managing Hyper-V VM Startup Times with .Net Minimal APIs
An Impromptu Home Lab Disaster Recovery Session
It has been a rough 90 days for my home lab. We have had a few unexpected power outages which took everything down. And, for the unexpected outages, things came back up. Over the weekend, I was doing some electrical work outside, wiring up outlets and lighting. Being safety conscious, I killed the power to… Continue reading An Impromptu Home Lab Disaster Recovery Session