So . . . I gave up trying to figure out what I screwed up on my #proxmox install and just reinstalled the whole thing. it didn't take long and was rather painless since I haven't done anything with it yet, and I didn't muck with the network management suggestions that auto-populated. And then . . .
Success! It's getting close to bedtime, so I am going to call it a night here. I am rather excited, though! One step closer to data sovereignty!
#sovdata #DIY #hostyourown #notyourhardwarenotyourdata
Awesome! Keep us updated!
I will. The next step is figuring out how to install umbrel.
You love to see it.
It felt good to see it come up after two evenings of frustration.
I'm also very pleasantly surprised at the thinkcenter I bought. It came with a legit Samsung SSD and gosh, that's so friggin fast!
I believe it. I have been partially following along with your endeavor lol. I have an unpublished blog for proxmox problem solving I ran into, but its all cluster problems, so hopefully with a simple install you shouldn't have too much of a struggle. My cluster has been pretty stable for the past few months.
Recommendation once your ready for VMs. Consider setting up a Fedora Server machine and playing with it. If you get the hang of it, you may consider using it as the base OS for your needs.
- Fast a crap (like a 5 second halt to login, booting from a network SAN)
- Cockpit web gui is really nice and is already setup
- Podman + cockup gui container management
- Firewall + network and VM gui managment (that actually works well)
- Takes up less than 5gb of disk for a full install (i usually provision 16gb disks and most of them are under 6gb)
- Automatic (or manual) updates directly through gui
I have switched mostly to Fedora server for all VM base OS's and have been a huge fan lately. I think it is much simpler to manage that proxmox if you just want to run some apps/vms/containers. But take your time, mess around!
I'll eventually take your advice. My next goal is to install umbrel since, well, it does everything that I kinda want a server to do but without the issues of having to learn a new flavor of Linux... LOL!
At least for now. It's been a couple of decades since I've messed with redhat... Thank you for your advice.
