Zephryn

I bought a 4TB SSD on Black Friday for my #Thinkpad X13 Gen 2. I dunno what even to use it for 🤷

Guess I’ll move in 🤣

I’m almost exclusively using Silicon Power SSDs now in my #Homelab. Great price/performance.

That’s unfortunate. Maybe by the time I have the cash for one tho

What’s this I hear about Snapdragon X and Windows? Man I’ve been lusting over the new M4 after how powerful Apple silicon is for AI, but a laptop that can run Linux and Windows with NPU/ARM?

Pretty please?

I really want it to be simple Docker again

Why is binding Ubuntu to an #Authentik LDAP so infuriating? I can ldapsearch but PAM isn’t querying the enabled LDAP module.

Yeah that ZFS ARC cache is working in #TrueNAS #Dragonfish. I’m doing an rsync job between datasets and I’ve never saturated the 10gig pipe as hard as this. It’s bottlenecked by 10gig 😅😂. Did I just earn my #HomeLab wings?

Holy shit. I need to agg for 20gig now.

I have a 2.5” SATA SSD I think I’d add as a cache drive for test, but I need the two open slots in my SFF bay for the initial vDev for new SSD pool I’m also making.

Read and write speeds across the three tiers. 10gig pipe and the VM is on a NVMe drive.

Not bad. It does perform on par to a 4wZ1 of old WD Red 5.4K 3TB drives that are about a decade old. As well as a 6wZ2 15k SAS array.

SMART seems to be ok, so I have a 3wZ1 layout and have. It’s on par to the ZFS calculator estimates of usable size.

Now I can play with speed tests.

Step 1: Document the serials, mfg dates, and physical location on DAS ✅

Strp 2: Verify TrueNAS sees the disks and that they are not allocated to a pool ✅

Step 3: Run short SMART test to test health of individual drives prior to building array [IN PROGRESS]

New disks for my #TrueNAS storage and my EMC KTN-STL3 DAS. 3x 14TB HGST HC530 (WUH721414ALE604) for a new pool.

I wish I watched @technotim.bsky.social ‘s video on ZFS and TrueNAS scale performance before my first pools.

youtu.be/3T5wBZOm4hY?....

This thread is me sharing the process.

Finally getting around to getting a little semblance of home with my bedroom headphone stack. Sometimes you have to make concessions when you exit bachelor life 🤣 #audiophile

So you might say I’ve been extensively testing the #Remarkable2.

Does 24.04 support that natively?

I’m playing with the Budgie version. Not a huge fan of stock Ubuntu

I finally have Acme Traefik working well and Authentik going. Been struggling to make sense of it in my off time.

I swear TLS certs are the bane of my existence.

What kind of dork am I to nerd out about a new LTS release after a week of struggle…

Oh man. Nice I was wondering when it was.

As an aside: I feel weird being the conservative one. I built my career on flying close to the Sun but….

As a former Splunk architect, I’d hope my instincts at certain points were observed. Raw instincts that is.

Eh. I chose to learn the hard way too 😂🤣

I’m so proud of my comrades. We won. It took blood, sweat, and tears. There are those moments in one’s career when they are tried and pushed beyond their limits. My junior engineers learned to fly.

Today, I see them as peers+. Camaraderie built on the battlefield.

What’s that they say about plans?

Probably saner on paper than my YOLO approach. I opted to work on something that will save hours migrating agents.

I solve practical problems.

BTW I’m diagnosed and medicated for ADHD but I still forget where I am mid sentence and stuff. Been a long time since I had a no-edit social media platform 😅

For all my years of experience and diversity of skills, I felt I lost intimately understanding the infrastructure Inam charged to protect being separated from them in my specialized role.

I dream of being an Enterprise IT Architect and pursue #homelab to have a playground without red tape and CABs.

I entered #infosec 12 years ago in IT risk and compliance/infosec mgmt. Moved to SecOps/blueteam 7 years ago. I have a B.S in what is essentially MIS but for education sector and a #GCIA. I specialize in engineering, digital forensics, and insider #threathunting and hunting corporate espionage

I’m in limbo for a smidge more, so let me talk about more about my #Homelab and career. I’ll thread it as replies to this post. It’ll take days to outlay fully.

Starting off, I started my IT career 17 years ago this May. I started in desktop support, worked up to system engineering then #infosec

And yes I’m a huge #StarCitizen gamer. Invested something close to $6.5-7k+ over the years because I believe in the project.

I roll with a great group of folks in the Texas Space Navy. When desk is moved I can play much more.

After Spring semester closes, grades are done, and the big migration is settled for a week… I really need to move my #battlestation to my partner/I’s new apartment. Moving is slow with how busy I am.

It was a custom job by my dad a decade ago, and I cherish it despite being hard to fit places.

Trying to get my ADHD super power activated as I begin day 3 of migrating a massive #Elastic Cloud Enterprise deployment between cloud providers. Not sure if I mentioned this is my first time.

I think the biggest hurdle is timing moving our agents. It’s going to be a long day…

#EnterpriseIT

Thanks! At the very least the front is clean 😂. I am in the middle of a move I’m slowly doing, and wanted to emulate @technotim.bsky.social ‘s sexy rack when I setup my core stack in the new rack.

I say spoiled because Splunk Docs are a wonder to behold. It took me hours to figure out what exactly the APIhost was for our deployment so I could rapidly deploy Powershell modules to sync and verify the 10 billion different things that have another 10 billion layers of dependencies

This weekend I’m moving our Elastic Cloud Enterprise between platforms. Im having to pull a lot of golden eggs out of my brain farts.

Snapshot restore nearly stopped us dead, and somehow I find the solution a Stack Overflow post.

I was spoiled as our Splunk architect and chief engineer.