I picked up a PiKVM a few months back. I finally got to use it earlier this week when Comparing Link Speed to Power Consumption.
But- it only works for a single PC. I need a solution for all four SFFs/Micros in my rack.
So... I picked up a cheap Display Port KVM for 70$, and hacked it to be controllable via Home Assistant.
Will changing the link speed of your current NIC, affect Power Consumption?
For me- I have 100G NICs in my SFFs. I don't need the full throughput.
So- will reducing the link speed, impact power consumption?
For this post- I will benchmark and determine the impact.
So... Near the end of 2024, I ended up cleaning up my rack, and making everything nice and tidy.
If- you missed that, have a look at the 2024 Homelab Summary
For the next problem- my networking closet is an absolute disaster.
There are wires hanging everywhere... There are switches, and cables everywhere... its a mess.
I plan on building a frame, with DIN rails for mounting all of this hardware.
I see tons of racks. I see tons of mini racks. I rarely see DIN-mounted networking.
Part 1, is building the frame which will hold all of the components.
This is all wood and construction. Nothing technical.
Just a short guide on how to migrate a VirtualBox VM on Windows, to Proxmox.
Have... a full root partition on proxmox?
root@kube02:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 126G 0 126G 0% /dev
tmpfs 26G 21M 26G 1% /run
/dev/mapper/pve-root 94G 94G 0 100% /
Confused because your boot disk is much larger in size?
Well, its because Proxmox by default, partitions the root disk with LVM, Regardless if you are using it to store data.
This post detail completely removing the data partition and extending the root partition