Yay! Two of my favourite YT channels/RUclipsrs making content together about homelabs. 2021 is starting to become a really good year. Keep em coming and good job 👍 Thank you for the great content!
I understand fully the inconvenience of having your firewall virtualized but in my opinion i love being able to upgrade and downgrade through snapshots. When I upgraded to pfsense 2.5 i got some issues and simply reverted back to the previous version within seconds. That's just something you can't do with an appliance. Also you can always just move your vm to another hypervisor while you're doing maintenance on the primary one. I have mine setup so it can float around. So i don't lose internet if my vm goes down really. Yes it's more setup work but once it's done it's awesome. 😊
Damn, LearnLinuxTV is one of the best new tech/homelabs channel I'd discovered when trying to learn Ansible. This channel (Lawrence Systems) I discovered when trying to learn about Graylog. Loving what I'm seeing right now ❤️
The key to handling the issue of virtualized essential stuff like a router or a dns server, is to have two systems. If you want to do maintenance on one, just restore a backup on the other and Bob's your uncle.
So... Home labs... Raspberry PI's..... Virtualization.... I would love to see a video on installing Xen on a pi. 😊 And or just talking about the pros and cons of doing this.
This is awesome . I am putting together a home Infrastucture with 1 x Cisco 3560-12PD-S, 2x zyxel gs1900-16, 2x Aruba Ap-515... currently looking for a good firewall appliance
This is Amazing, you are my favorite youtubers, you are clear when you explain something. the topics you speak are very useful to me. Cheers but i think jay needs to buy a better mic 😁
Sorry, Jay - when your systems are in the cloud you do *not* have complete control anymore. Now access to your data depends on your LAN, WAN and the provider. You don't have control over 2 of those parts. You only have total control over your systems when they are on-premise.
A great pair of channels, I'm fan of Linux TV. I would really appreciate if there is subtitle in English, I'm writing from Madrid, and my listening English is not perfect. Anyway I reallo like it. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
A raspberry pi cluster with hot spares might be pretty cool for HA environments where each function doesn't need a whole lot of oomph. Not sure what you'd get from that that you couldn't get from a couple of modest traditional servers attached to separate power infrastructure though, besides 0erhaps power usage efficiency.
Virtualizing Truenas/Freenas using PCIE passthrough is extremely advantageous for the density and i/o boost you can get from it, especially at the edge and mini iot datacenters. I've been doing this in production on many many HCI nodes for years as part a custom qemu/kvm/libvirt solution which I actually run on my own variation of Alpine Linux.
On the pfSense thing, I've been looking into running it as a ha service so that I can spin it up on any one of the servers in my rack if I need to do maintenance. Obviously there's extra setup involved, but surely that would be a pro of virtualising it.
I've done this and it works great. Also, and it's probably not a home lab thing due to cost, but if you use vmware with vmotion, you can shift live pfsense vm's between physical hosts to do maintenance with ease.
Super old video by the time I'm commenting on this. But... "Would you rather..." I would rather have educational videos. I don't care if it takes 2 months between them. But it's a weird perspective we have built. You do this as a business. You need to keep cranking out content. But if we take a few paces back and look at the system, it is entirely different. If I go look up a tutorial on how to replace a garage-door, unlock a firmware feature on a vending machine, get bubbles out of fiberglass, or any number of other things, it doesn't matter if the video is 8-years old. It doesn't matter if it took someone 3 months between video updates on their home renovation project that gave instructions along the way. The information is out there forever (RUclips/data-hoarders willing). Some channels can survive just fine by posting when they have content, and disappearing between videos. Look at Applied Science, The Thought Emporium, Errant Signal, NileRed, Primitive Technology, and others. Sometimes it is months between their posts. But the content is always interesting. Not every channel could get away with it though. So I understand why you produce regularly scheduled(ish) content.
Hi Tom, I love the channel and thanks for the help in your forums a while back. How about a virtual pfSense will a failover to a physical box? I have been running a physical box for years but have wanted to try the failover using a virtual / physical box
Tom you probably already know this by now, but UDMPRO just got an upgrade that allows multiple WAN IP addresses. Not sure how it works, but saw a video by Mactelecom Networks channel which showed the feature enabled.
I enjoyed! a couple of my favorite channels all in one! Its a homelab and I am trying to appease the wife expense wise, I have a lot of tplink, 2 smart switches, an eap225 and 2 eap115's. I sometimes wonder if I should have just spent the money on Unifi. I have no experience with unifi. It would be cool if you could actually try it and do more on it or just come out and say you do not prefer it. I wonder if the problems I have are because of it being tplink or if it's my lack of knowledge.
I read some reports the netgate implemention of wireguard was a complete mess. The wireguard main dev contacted netgate about the quality of the code and netgate brushed him off.
The last 2 years has made RP not a viable solutions. 1. You can't buy any as scalpels discover one more legal way to make a quick profit and charge minimum $100 a piece when you commit to 10 units. 2. Paying $1000 to someone on ebay is just a non-starter. It still doesn't pay for the required accessories like SD cards power suppliesl switches, cables and cases,mwhich all together will very quickly add up close to $180-200 a node. For that kind of money Proxmox running intel/amd computer with 16 cores isn't much more expensive, but faster for sure. 3. Maintaining lxd or Proxmox VM is way easier long term and in case of power outages. It is easier and quicker to shutdown one server than 10-20 PI cluster IMHO. 4. I do use 2 PIies (Pi2 and Pi3) to run my home DNS Unbound + pihole servers. Tbey share one virtual IP and I can bring any of them down for maintenace and the other will take over instantly. The settings are replicated using cron scheduler from master to slavemevery 15 minutes. Easy peasy.
Raspberry pi 4 8gb costs $75. Then add power supply, case, sd card and you have a board that can trash its slow mem card. OR, buy an old tiny 1L pc for 100 bucks with x86 and disk and memory included. Any you often can expand that to at least 16GB sometimes 32GB. My optiplex 3050 cost 160 with 8gb ram and 500g hard disk. it uses 12 watts idling. PI is way overrated
Unfocoused and unstructured. I appreciate the effort, but the "Episode 0: All About Home Labs" title makes me think its a video for absolute beginners. This is more for intermediate folks who understand the lingo.
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Would love to see this as a podcast. Would be perfect to listen to this on my way to/from work.
7 months later: it's in a podcast! 😁 It's on their website (check description)
Two of my favorite channels!
Amazing. Can't wait to hear and see more from this. Finally a well executed homelab-centric show!
I like podcasts because I don’t always have the time to watch videos. I can listen to podcasts in the car while driving for work
This is all great. Can't wait to see more.
Yay! Two of my favourite YT channels/RUclipsrs making content together about homelabs. 2021 is starting to become a really good year. Keep em coming and good job 👍
Thank you for the great content!
Home Assistant got me into homelab. Still a noob but liking the journey. Watch both your channels, gear content!
I understand fully the inconvenience of having your firewall virtualized but in my opinion i love being able to upgrade and downgrade through snapshots. When I upgraded to pfsense 2.5 i got some issues and simply reverted back to the previous version within seconds. That's just something you can't do with an appliance. Also you can always just move your vm to another hypervisor while you're doing maintenance on the primary one. I have mine setup so it can float around. So i don't lose internet if my vm goes down really. Yes it's more setup work but once it's done it's awesome. 😊
Keep it up guys. I love both your channels. As a Systems Administrator they are both invaluable to me.
Damn, LearnLinuxTV is one of the best new tech/homelabs channel I'd discovered when trying to learn Ansible. This channel (Lawrence Systems) I discovered when trying to learn about Graylog. Loving what I'm seeing right now ❤️
Thanks
Regarding Jay's definition of "home lab", I agree completely. The "home" part is more a state of mind than a physical constraint.
First ever time seeing this channel. I hear "hey Jarvis, play Lacuna Coil" @ 2:43 ... Yeah, I'm going to like it just fine here. 😆
The key to handling the issue of virtualized essential stuff like a router or a dns server, is to have two systems. If you want to do maintenance on one, just restore a backup on the other and Bob's your uncle.
So...
Home labs... Raspberry PI's..... Virtualization....
I would love to see a video on installing Xen on a pi. 😊
And or just talking about the pros and cons of doing this.
A Hypervisor on a Pi doesn't make sense, you don't have enough resources.
2:43 Wait... did he just say "Lacuna Coil"?
Nice! :D
This is awesome . I am putting together a home Infrastucture with 1 x Cisco 3560-12PD-S, 2x zyxel gs1900-16, 2x Aruba Ap-515... currently looking for a good firewall appliance
love both you guys, thanks for all the videos! missed the livestream---did not show up in my videos until 4 hrs late.
This is Amazing, you are my favorite youtubers, you are clear when you explain something. the topics you speak are very useful to me. Cheers
but i think jay needs to buy a better mic 😁
GR E A T! Please keep this going. A podcast would be good but, KEEP the RUclips side of this also!
Great work, excited for more episodes.
Super excited to see more of these! Thanks for all of the pfsense stuff too!
Audience crossover confirmed, subscribed to both of you!
My new workout playlist
Good show idea it seems homelab enthusiasts are a majority of viewers here anyway
this is awesome, I watch both of you regularly.
So glad I found both of you together. Can't wait for more content!
Sorry, Jay - when your systems are in the cloud you do *not* have complete control anymore. Now access to your data depends on your LAN, WAN and the provider. You don't have control over 2 of those parts. You only have total control over your systems when they are on-premise.
This was great. Looking to build my own homelab so this series wiuld be helpful. Keep it up guys
Awesome! Looking forward to your content.
2 of my favorite!
A great pair of channels, I'm fan of Linux TV. I would really appreciate if there is subtitle in English, I'm writing from Madrid, and my listening English is not perfect. Anyway I reallo like it. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
So excited to have both you as I am subbed to both channels
A raspberry pi cluster with hot spares might be pretty cool for HA environments where each function doesn't need a whole lot of oomph.
Not sure what you'd get from that that you couldn't get from a couple of modest traditional servers attached to separate power infrastructure though, besides 0erhaps power usage efficiency.
Virtualizing Truenas/Freenas using PCIE passthrough is extremely advantageous for the density and i/o boost you can get from it, especially at the edge and mini iot datacenters. I've been doing this in production on many many HCI nodes for years as part a custom qemu/kvm/libvirt solution which I actually run on my own variation of Alpine Linux.
I'm curious, what IO boost do you get running pcie passthrough vs. baremetal directly accessing the PCIE bus?
On the pfSense thing, I've been looking into running it as a ha service so that I can spin it up on any one of the servers in my rack if I need to do maintenance.
Obviously there's extra setup involved, but surely that would be a pro of virtualising it.
I've done this and it works great. Also, and it's probably not a home lab thing due to cost, but if you use vmware with vmotion, you can shift live pfsense vm's between physical hosts to do maintenance with ease.
You can run a pfsense appliance in your lab between virtual networks, that’s a great tested, don’t start with your internet connection ,)
@Jay MidSouth Distributing USA in Little Rock, I noticed all their counter top clients are Raspberry Pi 3B.
Oh shit ! And they said Avengers End Game was the most ambitious cross over of all time !
Yes!!!!! Keep em coming!
level 1 techs had some engenius gear on that looked pretty competitive for unifi, especially if unifi keeps dropping the ball.
Super old video by the time I'm commenting on this. But... "Would you rather..."
I would rather have educational videos. I don't care if it takes 2 months between them. But it's a weird perspective we have built.
You do this as a business. You need to keep cranking out content.
But if we take a few paces back and look at the system, it is entirely different.
If I go look up a tutorial on how to replace a garage-door, unlock a firmware feature on a vending machine, get bubbles out of fiberglass, or any number of other things, it doesn't matter if the video is 8-years old. It doesn't matter if it took someone 3 months between video updates on their home renovation project that gave instructions along the way. The information is out there forever (RUclips/data-hoarders willing).
Some channels can survive just fine by posting when they have content, and disappearing between videos.
Look at Applied Science, The Thought Emporium, Errant Signal, NileRed, Primitive Technology, and others. Sometimes it is months between their posts. But the content is always interesting.
Not every channel could get away with it though. So I understand why you produce regularly scheduled(ish) content.
Please keep doing this!
The two titans
Nice shot of the Orion Nebula
Hi Tom, I love the channel and thanks for the help in your forums a while back. How about a virtual pfSense will a failover to a physical box? I have been running a physical box for years but have wanted to try the failover using a virtual / physical box
It can be done. but it won't be smooth.
What a duo!
awesome !!! , keep the good work
Tom you probably already know this by now, but UDMPRO just got an upgrade that allows multiple WAN IP addresses. Not sure how it works, but saw a video by Mactelecom Networks channel which showed the feature enabled.
I enjoyed! a couple of my favorite channels all in one!
Its a homelab and I am trying to appease the wife expense wise, I have a lot of tplink, 2 smart switches, an eap225 and 2 eap115's.
I sometimes wonder if I should have just spent the money on Unifi. I have no experience with unifi. It would be cool if you could actually try it and do more on it or just come out and say you do not prefer it.
I wonder if the problems I have are because of it being tplink or if it's my lack of knowledge.
@@DistantComputer thanks for the reply. I have the controller running on a windows pc.
I didn't want to mix, that was part of it.
This is Great.
I've used jitsi.. hate it as a product. Had sooo many problems with folks sharing screens, etc over it.. sometimes it would work, sometimes it wouldnt
On the pi with business. I was amused to see my local pub is using them connected to the screen the staff use to monitor orders.
This is great!
This is awesome, too bad I'm just a little late
QNAP running TrueNAS Core works great :)
Linux dream team.
I read some reports the netgate implemention of wireguard was a complete mess. The wireguard main dev contacted netgate about the quality of the code and netgate brushed him off.
I believe jarvis is based on snips, it's an open source voice control for HA
The news general release does multi-wan ips not sure how good it is Willie Howe channel just done a review
Asustor is fantastic! Probably better than Synology
Darn I missed this.
Why does Jay have 2 mice?
Good chat.
I loved this show, but Jay was so quite that there wasn't a comfortable volume to effectively hear you both.
We sorted that out in later episodes.
Great
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Really job...
The last 2 years has made RP not a viable solutions. 1. You can't buy any as scalpels discover one more legal way to make a quick profit and charge minimum $100 a piece when you commit to 10 units.
2. Paying $1000 to someone on ebay is just a non-starter. It still doesn't pay for the required accessories like SD cards power suppliesl switches, cables and cases,mwhich all together will very quickly add up close to $180-200 a node. For that kind of money Proxmox running intel/amd computer with 16 cores isn't much more expensive, but faster for sure.
3. Maintaining lxd or Proxmox VM is way easier long term and in case of power outages. It is easier and quicker to shutdown one server than 10-20 PI cluster IMHO.
4. I do use 2 PIies (Pi2 and Pi3) to run my home DNS Unbound + pihole servers. Tbey share one virtual IP and I can bring any of them down for maintenace and the other will take over instantly. The settings are replicated using cron scheduler from master to slavemevery 15 minutes. Easy peasy.
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Pfsense on the sg7100 is killing me.
Really hate how they vlaned all the ports.
Itching to hack the firmware
They are odd but manageable, I cover how to set that up here at the 6 minute mark ruclips.net/video/1qLGdVra5yU/видео.html
@@LAWRENCESYSTEMS wow. Thank you!!
Raspberry pi 4 8gb costs $75. Then add power supply, case, sd card and you have a board that can trash its slow mem card. OR, buy an old tiny 1L pc for 100 bucks with x86 and disk and memory included. Any you often can expand that to at least 16GB sometimes 32GB. My optiplex 3050 cost 160 with 8gb ram and 500g hard disk. it uses 12 watts idling. PI is way overrated
All my HPE Gen 7s and 8s were fooo freeeeeeee
@16:11
Unfocoused and unstructured. I appreciate the effort, but the "Episode 0: All About Home Labs" title makes me think its a video for absolute beginners. This is more for intermediate folks who understand the lingo.