My home lab is undergoing a bit of a shift, as I experiment with different management interfaces for a virtualised server farm. Its all the fault of my Supermicro X9DRH-7F, which is running as a separate home lab with currently 128GB of memory, as I’m exploring ways to make my home server more complex, but…
My current off-site backup is a couple of hard drives in external (usb2) enclosures, which are rotated to a family member’s house. I’m now pondering adding a cloud-based backup to my environment. The problem with cloud backups is security – I want to encrypt the data locally, and then be able to rsync it to…
When I first started running Xen at home, it was on Fedora Core 6, and I was using hardware which didn’t include hardware-level virtualization support. Crazy huh? Since the first iterations of my home server, I’ve been through Centos 5, and my current home server runs Scientific Linux 6 (SL6) for which I had to…
So after catching some hints here and there, I started to wonder whether the i5-650 might make a really good cpu for a home server. Coupled with the oddly ambiguous Intel Ark i5-650 entry which notably doesn’t say “No” to ECC support when other CPU’s have an entry for “ECC Memory Supported” that usually states…