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Building and experimenting in a personal tech playground. Exploring hardware setups, network configurations, virtualisation technologies, and homelab project ideas. Satisfying hands-on breaking and creating of personal services and infrastructure cos-playing.

• My ZFS Strategy Ground Work

  Apr 10, 2026

  7 min read

  Home Lab Toolage

  Storage Hardware Proxmox

  Proxmox (#2 of 2)

  I cover the groundwork behind my ZFS storage strategy on Proxmox VE, including the hardware I am working with, how I balance performance, reliability, and capacity. The core ZFS concepts that influence my design and outline how different storage tiers serve different workloads in my homelab. This is less about “how to install ZFS” and more about planning thestorage architecture that fits my Proxmox workloads.

• The Proxmox ZFS SDS Engine

  Apr 8, 2026

  5 min read

  Home Lab Toolage

  Storage Proxmox

  Building my Proxmox VE homelab around ZFS gives me enterprise style software-defined storage without needing expensive hardware or proprietary platforms. By combining ZFS with Proxmox, I can manage storage, replication, snapshots, caching, and virtualisation all in one flexible and scalable platform using affordable enterprise hardware. This article breaks down how ZFS became the core storage engine behind my Proxmox environment and why careful storage planning matters so much for performance, resilience, and long-term growth.

• The Evolution of Virtualisation Storage

  Apr 5, 2026

  7 min read

  Home Lab Toolage

  Storage Proxmox

  I wanted to explore how Proxmox VE and ZFS represent a very different approach to virtualisation storage compared to traditional KVM stacks built around QCOW2, LVM, and XFS. Here I look at how enterprise virtualisation evolved, why ZFS changed the storage model, and the tradeoffs between software defined storage and traditional layered infrastructure. I find Proxmox and ZFS interesting as they bring enterprise style storage features to homelabs and SMB environments without expensive hardware.

• Commisioning Ex-DC Storage

  Apr 3, 2026

  6 min read

  Home Lab Toolage

  Storage Hardware

  Proxmox (#1 of 2)

  Or When SAS Drives Bite Back Or Debugging Slow Burn-In Tests in a Proxmox/ZFS Homelab. The issue I hit during a burn-in process for cheap ex-datacenter SAS HDDs, what I assumed was happening, what was actually happening, and how I confirmed and fixed it

• Solving Intel NIC Shenanigans

  Oct 20, 2025

  4 min read

  Home Lab Neworking

  Linux Hardware Howto

  How I fixed the issue with non-intel trasceiver not working with Intel X520 network card. Intel trying to be smart and how to tell the card to get over itself.

• Big move...Hang in there

  Dec 19, 2022

  1 min read

  Home Lab

  Blog Opensource

  The Wordpress.com gouging is over. Since moving to a new house with business class internet and a new server rack with a High availability server/storage solution. Its a process…

• FreeIPA Centos 8 lxc Replica Server

  Aug 15, 2022

  5 min read

  Home Lab Virtualisation

  Linux Lxc Redhat Server FreeIPA

  FreeIPA is to linux as Active Directory is to Windows. Like AD for Windows, FreeIPA should have a replica for high availability. This is a walk though on how I got it setup and running in CentOS 8 LXC container on Proxmox VE server. Low resource demands compared to a dedicated vurtual machine.

• FreeIPA in CentOS 8 LXC container

  Apr 1, 2021

  11 min read

  Home Lab Virtualisation

  Linux Lxc Redhat FreeIPA Server

  FreeIPA is to linux as Active Directory is to Windows. This is a walk though on how I got it setup and running in CentOS 8 LXC container on Proxmox VE server. Low resource demands compared to a dedicated vurtual machine.

• No NFS on boot

  Sep 29, 2020

  2 min read

  Home Lab Neworking

  Ubuntu Linux Networking

  Upgrade my workstation and now NFS mounts in fstab not mounting on boot but working with mount -a command works as expected. in short, systemd is worth learning and I cant believe ubuntu was released with such a basic bug.

• Created a GitHub Repo

  Jan 17, 2019

  1 min read

  Automation Home Lab Toolage

  Git Homeassitant Maker

  Lately I’ve been focusing on home automation using Home Assistant and I’ve created a GitHub repository for my configuration to help version control and roll backs. I’m sure I will find more uses

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