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

Installing Minio on a Synology Diskstation with Nginx SSL

In an effort to get rid of a virtual machine on my hypervisor, I wanted to move my Minio instance to my Synology. Keeping the storage interface close to the storage container helps with latency and is, well, one less thing I have to worry about in my home lab. There are a few guides… Continue reading Installing Minio on a Synology Diskstation with Nginx SSL

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

Getting Synology SNMP data into Prometheus

With my new cameras installed, I have been spending a lot more time in the Diskstation Manager (DSM). I always forget how much actually goes on within the Synology, and I am reminded of that every time I open the Resource Monitor. At some point, I started to wonder whether or not I could get… Continue reading Getting Synology SNMP data into Prometheus