Chris Cebelenski
@ccebelenski.cclabpro.org
Especially for DIY AI explorations. NVIDIA is still really the only game in town. Any iGPU isn't going to cut it there, and even for gaming the full-fat card is going to blow away anything integrated. Even with oculink...
June 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Especially for DIY AI explorations. NVIDIA is still really the only game in town. Any iGPU isn't going to cut it there, and even for gaming the full-fat card is going to blow away anything integrated. Even with oculink...
Depends on what you need and want. TrueNAS runs really well even on lower-end hardware, memory dependent. Beyond a few disks and DIY starts to look attractive, especially on price. And you can always DIY to insanity levels, which is good. 😜
June 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Depends on what you need and want. TrueNAS runs really well even on lower-end hardware, memory dependent. Beyond a few disks and DIY starts to look attractive, especially on price. And you can always DIY to insanity levels, which is good. 😜
Coffee-Lake can still be viable for a proxmox node, but this is going to be on the edge of useful - probably not a bad starter, especially if you can invest a bit more and stuff it with RAM. I believe you can put up to 128GB in these. Network expanding is an issue here too.
June 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Coffee-Lake can still be viable for a proxmox node, but this is going to be on the edge of useful - probably not a bad starter, especially if you can invest a bit more and stuff it with RAM. I believe you can put up to 128GB in these. Network expanding is an issue here too.
TLDR: It depends.
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May 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
TLDR: It depends.
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How much lamdba-like? 'cause you can do serverless in Kubernetes. But it ain't gonna be cheaper...
May 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
How much lamdba-like? 'cause you can do serverless in Kubernetes. But it ain't gonna be cheaper...
Yeah me too. Twice. I like that it’s flexible but I don’t have time to build custom dashboards or even maintain it.
April 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Yeah me too. Twice. I like that it’s flexible but I don’t have time to build custom dashboards or even maintain it.
They seem alive and well, despite it all…
January 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
They seem alive and well, despite it all…
Yes, depending on lots of uncontrollable factors. Certainly great for homelab, but not sufficient for many commercial uses. But I’m glad to have that capability for-sure.
January 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Yes, depending on lots of uncontrollable factors. Certainly great for homelab, but not sufficient for many commercial uses. But I’m glad to have that capability for-sure.
Correct, it’s not really GP. Although I have heard there may be some new host/server enhancement’s coming that move it more in that direction.
January 20, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Correct, it’s not really GP. Although I have heard there may be some new host/server enhancement’s coming that move it more in that direction.
Took me just under a year, but yes. 12 servers and counting.
January 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Took me just under a year, but yes. 12 servers and counting.
They would, since HA is not fault tolerant. It takes some time to move the traffic. True fault tolerance is the next level.
January 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
They would, since HA is not fault tolerant. It takes some time to move the traffic. True fault tolerance is the next level.
Congrats - that's next level stuff. Next in the list - HA and hyperconverged storage? 😀 (12 node Proxmox cluster here with Ceph and three NAS's, and two AI dedicated machines with multi-GPU's... So I know the struggle!)
January 19, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Congrats - that's next level stuff. Next in the list - HA and hyperconverged storage? 😀 (12 node Proxmox cluster here with Ceph and three NAS's, and two AI dedicated machines with multi-GPU's... So I know the struggle!)
Also if you run something like Watchtower, make sure you set it up to do automatic cleanup. That should be made to be the default, IMO. Otherwise one day you find you have a TB of old images. No, that's not a hypothetical..😱
January 18, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Also if you run something like Watchtower, make sure you set it up to do automatic cleanup. That should be made to be the default, IMO. Otherwise one day you find you have a TB of old images. No, that's not a hypothetical..😱
I'm actually kind of impressed with Lenovo engineering on their workstation machines. Just got a P920 dual Xeon 2nd gen scalable machine, and it's a tank. If I had one complaint, their flex-bay arrangement I could do without.
January 18, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I'm actually kind of impressed with Lenovo engineering on their workstation machines. Just got a P920 dual Xeon 2nd gen scalable machine, and it's a tank. If I had one complaint, their flex-bay arrangement I could do without.
Not in quite a while. You do it once, and you remember not to do that again. Accidents can happen.
January 18, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Not in quite a while. You do it once, and you remember not to do that again. Accidents can happen.
Three is minimum, especially for ceph. Really, five is when ceph becomes something really useful. I also don't understand people trying to do ceph on 1 GbE networking - yes, it works, but it's really annoying and slow.
January 18, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Three is minimum, especially for ceph. Really, five is when ceph becomes something really useful. I also don't understand people trying to do ceph on 1 GbE networking - yes, it works, but it's really annoying and slow.
Yeah, I get the complaints when I take down the net. Probably time to fix that. Maybe next month - network reworking is too much like real work.
January 18, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Yeah, I get the complaints when I take down the net. Probably time to fix that. Maybe next month - network reworking is too much like real work.
Of those two, postgresql. This for an existing app, or something new you're working on? If the latter, I'd probably look at noSQL type databases today, rather than SQL. But it depends on the application and what you're trying to do.
January 18, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Of those two, postgresql. This for an existing app, or something new you're working on? If the latter, I'd probably look at noSQL type databases today, rather than SQL. But it depends on the application and what you're trying to do.
Yup. TrueNAS as a VM on one of my supermicro machines. Passthrough LSI HBA in IT mode, with a NetApp disk shelf of 24 disks. Works very nicely.
January 18, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Yup. TrueNAS as a VM on one of my supermicro machines. Passthrough LSI HBA in IT mode, with a NetApp disk shelf of 24 disks. Works very nicely.