Matt Gerega

Tag: synology

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • Camera 1, Camera 2…

    First: I hate using acronyms without definitions: NAS – Network Attached Storage. Think “network hard drive” SAN – Storage Area Network – Think “a network of hard drives”. Backblaze explains the differences nicely. iSCSI Target – iSCSI is a way to mount a volume on a NAS or SAN to a server in a way…