i have 3 nics in this thing. 2 onboard 1gbit nics and 1 10gbit nic. i’ve bumped into an issue before where the 10gbit died and didn’t have failover configured (overheated or whatever). in proxmox it’s called bonding, in freebsd it’s called lagg (i think for everything it is called lagg but whatever linux). get […]
migrating from proxmox to freebsd (part 09): bastille
so cbsd was the porridge that was too hot. it’s a neat script but it had a lot of things that i don’t really care about like xen and virtualbox. so this attempt is going to be using bastille which is another script for managing jails. the github seems active so there’s that. they have […]
migrating from proxmox to freebsd (part 08): disks
so i ironed out a few things. one, the default installer has some 4k option when creating a mirror for zroot. i guess the usb drives did not agree with that at all. i turned that option off so now they’re working a bit more normal. using 4k blocks was giving me all types of […]
migrating from proxmox to freebsd (part 07): attempt
i tossed a couple 8TB disks into it that i had laying around to use for testing. after getting beadm set up and creating a boot environment i started off with cbsd. it works, but the way it works is super sloppy. even though it has been around for years the configuration is definitely not […]
migrating from proxmox to freebsd (part 06): beadm
since i have to wait to put disks in i think i can work on some things in the meantime on the freebsd server. first things first. i want to set up boot environments on the freebsd server to make sure i can roll back in case things really come off the rails with updates […]
migrating from proxmox to freebsd (part 05): install
so i’m having issues installing freebsd on the 1u supermicro. i’m using two 128GB usb drives to use for booting / os stuff and trid installing onto them mirrored and it panics on first boot. i need to probably pull it out of the rack but it’s a mess right now so it will have […]
migrating from proxmox to freebsd (part 04): router
so problem one is that i run opnsense (my router) in a vm on the proxmox server. this is probably not a good idea. i know a lot of people do this and there are some decent reasons to do it (like backing up your router), but i only did it because my original standalone […]
migrating from proxmox to freebsd (part 03): hardware
the hardware. currently the proxmox server is a ryzen 3700x on an asrock x570d4u motherboard. as i said earlier: say what you want about asrock but the x570d4u hit all the check boxes when making a cheaper server that supported ecc. i am going to install freebsd on an ancient supermicro 1u running dual xeon […]
migrating from proxmox to freebsd (part 02): plan
so this won’t just be a migration from proxmox to freebsd. there are other plans. for instance: i am running opnsense in a proxmox (kvm) vm. it works but this probably isn’t a very sane way to do it. i’m going to move that to some miniforum nuc (with 2 x 2.5gbit nics built in) […]
migrating from proxmox to freebsd (part 01): introduction
so the plan is to migrate from proxmox to freebsd. the goal is to use jails to replace lxc and bhyve to replace kvm. i only run two vms on the proxmox server so that shouldn’t be too big of an issue. but i do run a ton of containers, some of which are kind […]