NOTE: I have since switched to a USB 3.1 USB 5GB Etherner adapter. It is of course slower, but the speed does meet my needs, frees up the NVMe port, and doesn't look near as janky. It also thankfully eliminates the power supply, a singular point of…
This is the first in a series on how I built my homelab. My hosts use older Intel hardware, 6th to 9th gen. It's cheap, and desktops from that period still have useful specs, including NVMe slots. This page is the high-level overview. Each step gets its own…
NFS Share First we will set up the NFS shares from our TrueNAS Scale server. Configuration on the NFS server's side will depend on what you are using as a server. Under TrueNAS it's under Shares Unix (NFS) Shares. Hit the Add button and select the…
This will be more of an overview of how to set up the network, since this can vary so much depending on what network equipment you are running. In my case I'm running a Brocade ICX 6610 switch and an OPNsense firewall. There are a total of 4…
Proxmox Install First we will want to install the Proxmox host. I'm going to assume you have already done this, but you'll want to download Proxmox and put it on a flash drive using Rufus. To start, we want to only have the NIC plugged in…