--> Quick Questions Quick Replies Why would I want a NAS/Homeserver? If you ask why then you don't need it.
>I want a NAS/HTPC/Plex what should I get? RPi3 or Odroid XU4/HC1. Odroid upper models has USB 3 and USB bus separated from the Ethernet one.
>B-But muh ARM Then check the onboard x86 like J4105B-ITX, J4205B-ITX or J4205-ITX. All of them have SATA and USB 3.
>What's the best [software] for doing [ask]? Specify you question and elaborate. If you want help put something from your side.
>Which disk is better for my homeserver? The general opinion minus some details are that WD Greens are enough if you deactivate parkdrive, and WD Red are Green overpriced. Also Toshiba and HGST are pretty good.
>what the best way to do it? Download the distro you need to know and install it over your windows installation if you have any. Then you should learn the basics.
>Learn the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard >Read all the shortcuts you have on the shell en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Readline#Emacs_keyboard_shortcuts >Learn how to use the package manager >Learn how to systemd >Learn how to iptables / firewalld Try to use the official documentation as often as possible a lot of howtos and tutorials are written from retards for retards and should never be blindly followed without consulting the official documentation. Read the fucking log files and check if you can increase the log level when something does not work. Some tools you should know for debugging purposes are strace and sysdig.
You should not care too much about Linux after you know the basics it's mostly about the applications you are managing. Learn them they are way more important than Linux.
Christian Watson
thanks user
Austin Carter
desu, the biggest problem is practising. Best way is to use command line to do everything early, so you get used to it. Even when using a GUI is more convenient. Other thing is to learn how to modify config files and manage your process / daemons. When installing a software like vim for example, try to look at the config files, setting up a global one, trying to use a local one...
I'd recommend you to try various distribution to see their differences (you'll see there aren't a lot in the end), and I strongly recommend you installing something like debian (without any GUI at all) or arch linux so you have to install manually and configure manually your system.
Again, if you target linux servers, try setting up server applications. Try running a web server with a database, php, check the config files. Set up a ftp server, e-mail server, streaming server if possible, ssh, try to secure it a minimum.
Learn by practising. Whatever your read will be useless if you don't.
Nathaniel Peterson
You're welcome. Why do you need to learn this?
Angel Rodriguez
I have been working as a car mechanic for almost 4 years despite having no actual interests in cars, I have the chance to get into an IT company of a friend, if I can occasionally manage their servers proberly within 3 months I'm hired. Since I actually like technolgy and working with pcs this is a great chance for me
Jaxon Collins
how difficult would repurposing an old desktop be to run a home server like so? Balls hard?
Leo Rodriguez
oh look, a rack full of loud, power hungry, slow shit.
Gavin Cooper
Dell is for fucking poor people.
Ayden Bennett
I'm fucking poor people.
Leo Allen
Why are you recommending ARM SOCs for Plex MS? While I do like them for other tasks they suck at transcoding.
Jack Scott
They're terrible, I know. I just copy pasted the only copypasta I have. A shitty dell is better as a server for plex.
Isaiah Fisher
Depends on what you need it for. FreeNAS is piss easy to install. Something like esxi is a little bit more difficult.
John Wilson
Is there any convenient way to check if my ISP is preventing me from forwarding a bunch of ports and making them available via the internet? It's technically an unlimited data mobile SIM, so it may be common for them to block pretty much everything?
Why use a raspberry pi for a NAS, don't they share usb and ethernet bandwidth thus limiting their file transfer speed? I remember that being the case for the older models, I don't know about the rpi3 though
Jaxson Davis
See Read the thread
Blake Green
>register domain for free >renew for fuckton Goddamnit
Brandon Hill
>Read the thread I did faggot, I'm talking about bandwidth issues, I don't care about the processor being ARM for a simple file server
Easton Ross
Yea, the RPi has limits that are very obvious on GBE. The Odroids pretty much match GBE.
Noah Lee
PS: Yes, its also the case for the RPi3 b or such. So far no RPi that can run data at GBE speeds with a SSD or HDD.
Nathan Parker
How can I stream content from my server to VLC or MPV on a remote client.
Is that a hgst jbod under the supermicro chassis? From sth great deals? :D
Aiden Campbell
yes HGST 4U60 G1, will eventually replace the 45 drive supermicro JBOD with another one of the HGST ones
Henry Morris
update the pastebin please it's incomplete as fuck go see it for yourself
Dominic Hill
For what purpose do you use this setup? I suppose the two servers ontop of the JBOD are VM-hosts?
Ayden Smith
>two servers there are 4 supermicro servers and 2 jbods
Logan Sullivan
Can I get a recomendation for mobo/CPU for my FreeNAS box? Right now I run a duel core pentium and when I downloading and trying to stream it chugs. I want it be miniITX, was thinking of a Atom based unit from SuperMicro, any recommendations?
Jose Powell
I have 100tb (13 8tb wd reds) that has almost finished roi from mining burst coin. What can I do with this? Unless I'm wrong, from what I understand you want 1gb of ram per tb of hdd for a nas 100gb of ram is ludicrously expensive right now So what do?
Asher Phillips
>>Unless I'm wrong, from what I understand you want 1gb of ram per tb of hdd for a nas That's just a rule of thumb for ZFS, it really depends on your performance requirements and what you're storing. Database images that get hammered with random reads and random writes all day? Yeah, buy more RAM. Just hoarding anime? pff, you barely need any RAM to get 100MB/s sequential read.
Note that how you organize your vdevs influences this. Essentially each vdev gives you the IOPS (random r/w performance) of one drive.
Easton Evans
>100gb of ram is ludicrously expensive right now ram is cheap as shit, look on ebay for used ddr3 rdimms
Daniel Johnson
>100MB/s sequential read. So what you're saying is that it will perform like shit and cant even get the bandwidth of a single drive. What a great FS
Mason Bailey
>Install graphical Ubuntu >setup samba sharing
That's about it.
esxi is overkill for a home server.
William Cooper
>i cant find a keygen for vsphere
Andrew Kelly
>using proprietary software on servers i bet that you are also that fag who always posted the screenshots of those cracked programs
You can use the evaluation copy of esxi and vsphere which is basically the same as the full version. I've tried it on my server. It's still just overkill for the home user. Setting up all the vpn's, datastores, virtual network connections and shit is just annoying. You're better off with a low power device for a router and a separate server. If you need multiple server OS's just run VMware workstation on the server.
Justin Torres
>vpn's has nothing to do with vSphere. and im sure you arent running NSX
> datastores formatting a hard drive is hard huh?
>virtual network connections and shit is just annoying >low power device for a router you have no idea how to use vlans or why you would want to do you?
>router and a separate server you dont understand the purpose of virtualization do you?
Brody Thomas
Under the WLC is my SAN, its a simple machine with 4x1TB SSD in RAID 10.
Under the SAN is a 2U dual node server (2x E5-2660v2, 128GB RAM per node), one of the nodes is still running ESX, the other one is running containers.
Under the SAN is my ZFS head-unit running 2x E5-2650 and 192GB of RAM.
The 2 JBODS have 45x4TB in one of them and for now 12x8TB in the other one which will grow to 24x8TB beginning of next year.
Everything is connected via a Arista 7124SX and a Cisco WS-C4948E-F.
The storage is just for fun and the other servers are for a combination of fun and also test environment for a large LAN-event, that's also the reason for the lonely Enterasys switch, thats just there for testing purposes as we use those at our event.
Isaac Hernandez
Why a physical WLC instead of a virtual? CAPWAP instead of FlexConnect?
Oliver Miller
FlexConnect, vWLC will work but annoying with licences and the whole 60 day thing.... Also there as we use CAPWAP at the event so its another test environment unit.
Jose Ortiz
I just want to run a home file server My big ambition is to get a threadripper and run a central computer in the garage for the house. Use unraid for vm sessions, and access the server with slimtops around the house.
Andrew Flores
>annoying with licences and the whole 60 day thing What? The licensing is based on the honor system, pic related.
>you dont understand the purpose of virtualization do you?
Yeah I do. If anything goes wrong with the machine your whole network goes down. That's not going to happen with a proper server but it probably will on a old desktop PC converted into a server.
Ryan Nelson
>I dont know how to engineer redundancy in to a design
Jayden Nelson
wait what, so I can now just add as many AP's as I want for free without having them expire every 60 days. last time I checked that was not the case I thought...
John Reyes
>putting this much effort into a porn storage device
Cooper Powell
yes, at least on the virtual.
i dont store porn and yes I did, pic related a 2 node S2D/SOFS cluster
It was my understanding the RTU thing required a reboot every 60 days at one point when cheating the system, will look into this ASAP, if the reboot thing is not the case then I guess I have a WLC for sale, thanks man.
Michael Reyes
>It was my understanding the RTU thing required a reboot every 60 days at one point when cheating the system nope, 195 days uptime on mine, pic related
Setup a server running whatever distro you're going to be using (or install it on y our computer or as a vm) and learn how to setup various services like apache and nginx, database servers, and so on. While doing that become comfortable with the command line and the file layout of GNU/Linux. Also make try to make bash scripts to automate some stuff to help you learn bash.
Xavier Nguyen
Piss easy. Throw a GNU/Linux distro on it without a gui, setup ssh, and then just look up how to install the things you want it to do. My home server is just my old desktop in my closet running Debian.
Zachary Scott
Central: Mid Tower Server running Windows Server 2012 R2. Roles: Hyper-V, File Sharing,DLNA Media Server. ReFS 11TB total storage, 1TB free
Windows Home Server 2011 (Hyper-V Guest) Roles: Client Backups, FTP Server,Remote Media Access
Backup: (shutdown when not used) HP N40L w/4GB EEC ram & 7.1TB Raid-z1 Roles: Core Data Archive box
Zyzel 540 Nas 12TB Raid-5 Roles: Full Data Backup box
Other: (Cold backup) HP N40L w/16GB EEC ram. 21.4TB Raid Z-1 Roles: Takes place of Server 2012 R2 Server if it has a hdd failure, Data is sync'd between the two on weekly basis. Will eventually replace it for 24/7 usage once it has a failure or hits capacity limit.
2x Zyzel 320s Nas units; Ready for data backup work if needed. Just need to add drives. Each unit can support 2x drives in Raid 1/Raid 0/ or JBOD mode
If you don't wanna have to deal with the 1gb per tb shit then you could just use linux mdraid instead. ZFS honestly isn't that much better then mdraid when it comes to home use and it has lots of overhead unless you are running it on solaris or a derivative of solaris.
Zachary Lee
>pic best gawd damn NAS anyone can get
Kayden Sullivan
Why so much windows?
Joshua Taylor
>no one else can resolve your domain you might as well just run expose your own dns server at that point
Juan Roberts
FUCK EMC DELL AND FUCK JAVA.
That is all.
Isaac Ortiz
Got a Rosewell 4U server case w/12 3.5 bays waiting in the wings. Plan is to load Freenas and setup a few Raid Z-3 arrays then mirror them. So the net affect will be able to suffer 6 drive failures before all data is lost for good. Lord knows, by the time 10TB drives hit the $100 mark I'll be hitting least 20+TB anyway. That's a lot of data to have to redo/restore if the worst should happen.
David Roberts
Really you can get by with less ram under Freenas. Just don't use Dedup or Compression. Those two things really eat the ram/performance
Christopher Flores
I'll be able to resolve your domain user :)
Caleb Jones
That's probably true. I honestly don't have much experience with ZFS because of it's licensing and my freedom loving.
Daniel Collins
Cause for some things Windows just works better. My DLNA server software for example, there's not an up to date version for Freenas and the HP's don't got the CPU muscle for video transcoding.
Jayden Barnes
Fair enough. I would prefer to just contain any windows needs in vms but whatever floats your boat.
Hunter Davis
>bixnood.net lol
Henry Williams
I plan on using pic related to run SAMBA so I can play games through my hacked ps2's NIC. and maybe as a media server. I don't know, I just want to play with the linux server environment. I plan on hooking up a 1tb harddrive in NTSF.
You want to do a boss home server right and on the cheap, you hop over to eBay and pick up a used and populated (with blades and flex fabric controllers) HP c7000 blade chassis, 3par SAN array and cheap used 10gb TOR switch. You could get it all for under 5 grand. Hyper-V the hosts and your rocking and rolling.
Samuel Turner
I've been using XenServer for quite awhile now. Is there any benefits to using esxi over XenServer?
My first real server coming in the mail tomorrow. What are some of the tests I should do after receiving it? Apart from memtest86+ . what else?
Isaiah Morales
>tfw set up ssl and fqdns in front of all my internal machines and containers I went with hostname.location.realdomain.tld where anything under location only resolves locally.
there's no difference between a crusty home desktop or a top of the line enterprise server for learning 90% of the stuff you will need
John Morales
Is that a 2 node supermicro at about u18 in that rack? Specs? Recognise it from the 4node 2Us by the duplicated power/status interfaces on the ears
Liam Wilson
I could understand this up until 2007, but now that everything is virtualized and CCIE is the bare requirement now, why would anyone want one of these expensive power hungry racks?
Hey guys, I would be grateful for some advice on setting up NextCloud on my Raspberry Pi 3. My idea was setting up a NextCloud so that I can access some documents on the go aswell as keep my calendar synced across devices. Sharing some documents with others is important, too. Mainly because I do not want to use Google services anymore. How would I go about making sure I can access my server when I'm not connected to my home network? Anything I need to consider when configuring my router? Does anyone of you have a similar setup and is willing to describe a general outline of his setup process aswell as pitfalls he incountered? I would be very much interested to hear. Thanks in advance!
Jack Rodriguez
just forward ports 80 and 443 to your raspberry
Chase Sullivan
Fuck all trainings. Download a guide for installing arch. Print it out. Ditch all windows from your life for some time. Install and use arch as your main OS. Thats how you would easily learn basics of linux and use of tools like man and etc.
You can't learn from book without practice and you can't learn shit while using something in virtualbox or such bullshit.
Have fun user.
Charles Baker
What brand/model is that? Would be nice to use a dumb terminal.
Ian Morgan
It is at home in the basement nothing to do with my daytime job.
It is indeed a dual node system more info here:
Landon Rivera
What is your day time job desu
Ethan Perez
Please bear with a retard for a moment
I ended up with a desktop ITX computer that I have no reasonable use for and I've never set up any kind of home server before in my life.
Now I want to but have no idea what in the hell to do with it. How should I proceed here?
