Technical notes from systems I have built and run. Each post gives a short summary and a step outline; the full text is the original article on LinkedIn.
I turned an older Supermicro storage unit without JBOD support into a Proxmox Backup Server (PBS 4.1.0) backup target on Debian for low-criticality workloads. Hardware: 4-core Intel Xeon, 8 GB RAM, eight 3 TB …
I back up a Windows Server 2022 file server to Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) using the Proxmox Backup Client inside a Debian 13 Linux container. The share is mounted over CIFS and the container reaches PBS over …
I build a three-node Proxmox VE 8.4 HA cluster that uses Fibre Channel storage attached through HBA cards. Management, cluster, corporate VLAN and Proxmox Backup Server traffic run on separate networks, and th…
I route HTTP and HTTPS traffic for three WordPress servers in a DMZ through a single Nginx reverse proxy. TLS terminates at the proxy while the backends keep serving plain HTTP.
I build a three-node Proxmox VE 8.2 cluster on HP Z840 workstations, each with four 4 TB SSDs (12 OSDs in total). Ceph replication traffic runs over an InfiniBand network.
I build a highly available cluster on Proxmox 6.x (Debian 10) that uses multipath iSCSI for shared storage, backed by an HPE MSA array.
In 2020, on a personal Orange Pi Jim V1.0 device (Debian-based) that I owned, I set up a simple Python-based test to observe how authentication on the SMB protocol holds up under weak credentials. The goal was…
