snapshots are not backups! do not rely on zfs snapshot to save your ass if you really break something or if a server completely loses it. (although.. a snapshot sent elsewhere, like another zpool on a different system, may be considered a backup). going off of the earlier post i was working on getting a […]
moving to freebsd / jails / bhyve (part 3): domain controller
i want to centralize auth. since i use smb a lot and anything i can think of supports active directory it makes sense to just use an active directory domain controller. i was going to try using freeipa but it seems like it targets fedora / rhel and not freebsd. so i will go with […]
moving to freebsd / jails / bhyve (part 2): jail creation
the vlan stuff isn’t important for joe single network but i wanted things separated so i created vlan 999 for creating the freebsd infrastructure. i’m going to start by creating a jail for the dc. my host hostname is devil (in keeping with the freebsd hell theme). so the assumption here is that freebsd is […]
moving to freebsd / jails / bhyve (part 1)
the conditions: i have freebsd 15.0-RELEASE installed and running. i have bastille installed and functional. i have a test jail running and worked out the kinks of doing some of the things i’ll need to do (like mounting smb in jails and seeing if logging in as AD users works). for this project i’m going […]
migrating from proxmox to freebsd (part 14): lets try again
so i purchased a new proxmox server which is a dual xeon 1u and tossed an arc a310 in that. now my old proxmox server, a ryzen on an asrock server/workstation board with ecc, can be a playground. it still has an nvidia p400 in it (which isn’t great but isn’t bad at all). so […]
swap gpt labels for zfs
so i have an issue. i have a 36 bay nas running freebsd and i want to move disks around. i use gpt labeling in order to know where disks are. this is way better because you can label them into a grid and if one fails then you don’t have to go easter egg […]
migrating from proxmox to freebsd (part 13): do over
i get that my dual xeon supermicro 1u is ancient but the performance on it is seriously lacking. i am still having issues with the usb drives. so the last piece of hardware that i am going to get for this thing is a DOM. because it is only 16GB i am going to have […]
migrating from proxmox to freebsd (part 12): performance
so the first thing i used for testing was plex. it installs pretty straightforward. it’s just a quick pkg install (in the jail). i had gotten a lifetime plexpass back when plex was poor and it was cheap. nowadays it’s like buying gold. glad i rolled a 7 on that. either way. the server is […]
copying partition tables in freebsd
just a quick snippet because i know this is one of those things i will need later but will forget how to do and start searching for again. if you have to replace a drive in zfs it’s probably best (when you get the replacement drive) to make sure their partition tables match to keep […]
migrating from proxmox to freebsd (part 12): bhyve
there are other options to use for virtual machines but i am going to go with the freebsd project standard, bhyve. this will load the virtual machine module for freebsd. for management i am going to go with vm-bhyve which is now part of the whole freebsd.org team of things. these instructions are taken directly […]