Category: IT Infrastructure
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How to put drives to sleep in OpenMediaVault?
By default, OpenMediaVault NAS software will prioritize performance over power consumption and noise levels of disk drives. It makes sense when running heavily loaded NAS, but for home usage it’s an overkill. If my NAS is used only a few times a day, it makes no sense to keep HDDs spinning all the time. Luckily,…
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Home Assistant in Kubernetes the simple way
There is almost nothing better than running your smart home on your own server! And it’s hard to find better smart home system than Home Assistant itself. I used to run my instance of Home Assistant on a QEMU virtual machine inside old rack server (Dell R620 with intel Xenon E5-E2630L, 64GB RAM and 10TB…
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Managing MicroCeph Clusters: How to Add & Remove Hosts
What is Microceph and Ceph Ceph is a highly scalable, open-source distributed storage platform. It supports object, block, and file storage, and is designed for large-scale, enterprise-level environments. Ceph provides robust features for redundancy, fault tolerance, and scalability, making it suitable for complex and demanding storage needs. MicroCeph is a lightweight deployment and management tool…