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Episode 376: Ask Noah Show 376 Feb 13, 2024

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How do you setup an IP camera doorbell to call your phone? Can Windows decrypt gpg files and should you store those on a network share? It's a packed episode with your questions and our answers!

-- During The Show --

01:50 Noah's Cloud Experience

Paramount attaches to google account
Google locks out account
Experience was terrible even when it was working
Artificial barriers encourage piracy
Google continues to charge card after closing account

07:20 Nextcloud Issues - David

Apple shuts down 3rd party sync
iPhone automation to fire the Nextcloud app
Add CardDav/CalDav account
Contact sync guide
Check "pathing"
Report the issue to container maintainer
What the Nextcloud all in one container does
- Pulls down other containers
- "black box"

15:54 Encrypted files help - Joshua

Master source of truth
Attackers target samaba shares
PGPtool
ZFS encrypted volume and manually load/unload key
Encrypted containers
- Veracrypt
- KDE Vaults
Purpose of encryption
Write back in with use case!

24:52 Linux Consulting? - Jeremy

Make sure your employer is cool with it
Networking
Look in the community
Job boards

31:54 Home Assistant & Door Bells - Eddie

Riolink python library
Use Home Assistant automation
Noah's setup
- Generic SIP = phone portion
- Generic RTMP = Camera portion
- Generic GPIO = Control

38:51 Niche Distros

Can be special snowflakes
Nobara
- Based on Fedora
- Made by glorious eggroll folks
GoboLinux
Why not just use "configure package" on base distro?
Appliance distros have their place
ElementaryOS
Endless OS

50:38 EMS Migration

EMS responsive, great docs
No insight
EMS left instances running past shut down date
Don't run two servers at once

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Episode 375: Ask Noah Show 365 | Ajit Pai Feb 06, 2024

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Ajit Pai, the former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission joins Noah and Steve to discuss regulation at the federal level and how we best frame our laws to promote innovation and the freedom of the internet.

-- During The Show --

00:58 Noah Helps Son's Friend

Buys bits at a time
Went Linux vs $200 Windows
Walked him through all the steps
Made a recovery script

03:20 Glenn From The Geek Lab

Switched away from Mail in a Box
Went to Mailcow
Your experience with blacklists?

04:48 Penguin From The Geek Lab

Bunny CDN?
Open Source going strong
Open source friendly options
Why you may need a CDN

06:27 Mobile Operating Systems

Many devices still need android drivers
Sailfish OS
Incremental improvements still being made

07:50 Inventree

Inventree
Divides purchasing and selling
Manage Suppliers
BOM Management

08:58 News Wire

GNU C Library 2.39 - Source Ware
Helium OS Public Alpha - Helium OS
OnlyOffice - Only Office
LibreOffice 24.2 - Document Foundation
Scribus 1.6 - Scribus
Mesa 24.0 - Freedesktop.org
Ubuntu 24.04 & Linux 6.8 - OMG Ubuntu
KaOS Linux 2024.01 - 9 to 5 Linux
Nitrux 3.3 - NXOS
SUDO on Windows Server - Bleeping Computer
PKL Programing Language - Tech Radar
Glibc Flaw - The Hacker News
GNU C v2.39 - Source Ware
AI2 Full Open Source LLM - Axios.com
Protect AI Integrates LLM Guard - csoonline.com
Hugging Face AI Assistant Maker - Venture Beat
Mistral CEO Confirms Leak - Venture Beat

10:50 Ajit Pai Interview

What was your big picture of the FCC when you were appointed?
Why advocate for less regulations and what were the results?
Where does the line fall between FCC and elected officials?
Does regulation stifle innovation?
What are you views on net neutrality?
Where is the line between giving authority to state and local government vs the FCC?
Internet/last mile providers and internet backbone
ICS in prisons
Is there any reason why internet couldn't facilitate low cost communications in prisons?
Can you see a time where the federal government puts in internet infrastructure?
AI and robo calls and texts
What can you speculate about the FCC and frameworks for licensing space stations engaged in in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (ISAM)
Where do you see the future of ham radio?
FCC.gov
NY Times
Ars Technica
FCC PDF

Events coming up

Texas Linux Fest
Linux Fest North West
Scale
SELF

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Episode 374: Ask Noah Show 374 Jan 30, 2024

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This week Noah and Steve dig into alternatives to Axis for cameras. What can you buy that won't break the bank, but also has open source compatibility? Your questions go to the front of the line, and what if NextCloud had an email backend?

-- During The Show --

01:10 Steve's WiFi/SSID problem

Double NAT theory
MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit)

03:43 Mail-in-a-box - Joe

Mail-in-a-box uses Nextcloud components
Office in a box
- Center around files or email
- Nextcloud conversation
Roundcube
Microsoft support/blocking entire yahoo domain
Mail partnership
Write in about self hosted email

15:15 HDMI Capture card - Fred

Blackmagic Decklink HDMI
- No guarantee drivers will continue to be published
PCI bandwidth
Blackmagic Decklink Duo (SDI)
Quad Bus USB Card
Decimator
VDO.ninja

20:17 Affordable USB DMX Controller - TwoBit

DMX vs RGBW
Hardware controllers
DMXKing USB Adapter
QLC+
MIDI control
WLED
WLED DMX output doc
Orbs, LED Walls, Christmas lights
Chat Recommendation Enttec Open DMX USB
- Thank You TwoBit!

27:25 News Wire

Vanilla OS 2 Orchid Beta - Vanilla OS
Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 - Ubports
Firefox 122 Google Meet Fix - Fedora Project
Ubuntu 24.04 Aiming for 6.8 Kernel - Phoronix
NVIDIA 550 - Phoronix
OpenWRT One - Toms Hardware
Game Boy Homebrew - Gaming on Linux
EU Cyber Resilience Act - Adafruit Blog
White House Report - Cyber Scoop
Vivante NPU - CNX Software
Eco Libre Report - Eco Libre
Google Cloud and Hugging Face - Data Center Dynamics
New Greener AI Models - Tech Xplore
Code Llama 70B - Venture Beat

29:00 Dash Boards

Being more "pro" at home
Dashy
- Only tracks web end points
- Beautiful UI
Prometheus, Grafana
Uptime Kuma
- Strikes a middle ground
- Variety of "end points"
- Tracks over time
- Layout
- Settings stored in SQlite file
- Has an API
Use case
Setup

38:27 Alternative Cameras

Axis
- Great
- Expensive
- Hard to find mounts
RioLink
- Lots of conflicting information
- Depends on the model
- Steve bought ReoLink E1 Outdoor Pro
- Home Assistant auto detected ReoLink
- Lots of sensors
- Has "tracking" and "motion detection"
- Home Assistant can update firmware
- Has FTP setting
- RioLink (Amazon)
- RioLink PiPy API
- Get a POE based camera
You get what you pay for
Do Not buy these cameras!
- Hikvision/Dahua - The Intercept
- Eufy - Ars Technica
- Ring - EFF
Used Axis is cheaper anyway
Get cameras that follow a standard (ONVIF)
ONVIF Conformant Products
GeoVision (Amazon)
Camera longevity

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Ask Noah Show 373 Jan 23, 2024

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This week we revisit the idea of self-hosting your own email server. For years both of us have been against it, with the current state of "cloud" mail providers, maybe it's time to reconsider. Noah and Steve dig into new research that suggests some concerns with kids using tech at a young age.

-- During The Show --

00:52 Steve's Question

Can't load sites on WiFi AP unless on a VPN
Write in!

02:00 Noah on Hosted Email

Hosted O365
Client filed ticket
Entire yahoo.com email domain not working
Microsoft doesn't know how to fix it
Wed 2pm - Today (Tues) a little back and forth
Still not solved
Got a slew of useless troubleshooting links
Noah can't fix the problem
Mail in a box

08:37 New OSS Firmware for Zigbee - Charlie

Open source Zigbee firmware
GitHub
CNX-Software Article
May enable open source firmware on new devices

11:40 Vulnerability Scanners - Steve

19:15 Ubuntu Pro? - Mike

Paying for things identifies you
Responsible disclosure
Ubuntu Pro reduces vulnerability time
Free for 5 machines
Ubuntu Membership

25:18 Blocking websites & Can you recommend linux? - David

Sophos XG for Home
Noah recommends sophos HARDWARE not software
Elementary OS, Debian, etc
Go with the spin of your favorite desktop
How to install MS Windows with out account
Elementary OS is polished
Arch Linux, to dig in

33:38 News Wire

KVIrc 5.2 - KVIrc
Firefox 122 - Mozilla
Proton 8.0 5th Patch - GitHub
Fish 3.7.0 - GitHub
Pulse Audio 17 - Freedesktop.org
Wine 9.0 - Wine HQ - Gaming on Linux
Bazzite v2.2 - Gaming on Linux
Sparky 2024.01 - Sparky Linux
AV Linux 23.1 - Band Shed
Linux Mint 21.3 Edge ISO - Linux Mint
MX Linux 23.2 - MX Linux
BPF Updates - The News Stack
Multiple Severe AI Vulnerabilities - Security Week
Facebook AGI - Forbes

35:10 Noah's Experience

Gives kids ride home
Explains budgeting
Offers hardware on hand
Build's Ryzen tower
Windows vs Linux
Installs Linux
Sad state of affairs
Get to kids before indoctrination
The Epoch Times Article
Depression in teens
Getting worse
Steve's discussion with a young person
Effect of COVID
Screen vs in person
Screens and psychological disorders

48:28 Firefox Releases DEB

Mozilla Blog Post
DEB gets faster updates than snaps
Hard to move architectures
Hard to find all edge cases
9 to 5 Linux

51:42 CSA Open Letter

From Matrix
Lots of companies signed
Matrix Blog Post

52:52 AV Linux

Real cool
Music Nerds write in!

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Ask Noah Show 372 Jan 16, 2024

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This week Noah and Steve talk monitoring dashboards! Get a single pane of glass for your house! A discussion about proprietary garbage, and answer your questions.

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Ask Noah Show 371 Jan 09, 2024

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This week Daniel Schäfer joins Ask Noah and we talk about the design of the Framework laptop and upcoming 16" version of the laptop. We answer your questions, and tell you about a newbie friendly terminal emulator!

-- During The Show --

01:45 Sharing Passwords - Anthony

Send data/info via multiple channels
Nextcloud
Passphrases

07:40 Axis Camera Feedback - Dominik

AXIS M3075-V
Motion Detection on camera
No need for proprietary software

11:16 Pi Hole Problems - Anthony

Blocked or not, same amount of traffic
Windows on separate/guest network
Try a debloat script

15:00 controld for dns - Mohammad

[Controld](controld.com)
Steps
- Get subscription from controld.com
- In controld.com, define a device with your desired settings, and then add DoH providers to the block list
- Set up dnsdist as DNS forwarder
- Configure DHCP to point devices to dnsdist
- Configure NAT on the Mikrotik to redirect all UDP/TCP DNS requests to dnsdist
- Configure the firewall to block the known DoH IPs

19:54 Zwave Power up - Tiny

Normally shows up quickly
Interrogation takes time
Pair close to the controller
Battery devices may go to sleep
Network remaps/self heals every ~ 1.5 days

22:40 Video over WiFi

Don't do video over WiFi
STI
NDI
Bandwidth
- 1.5 Mbps min
- 3 Mbps for SD
- 5 Mbps for 1080p
- 25 Mbps for 4K

26:00 Station Broadcast System

Streaming box
- Ubuntu
- OBS
- Quad STI Card
- Quad USB Bus
Streams to Owncast
Embedded Matrix chat
Repeat-ability
Making it an appliance
Move assets on to a web end point
Linux Admin way
Ansible pull and systemd timers
Custom flatpak
Bitfocus stream deck

39:30 OBS Pull Request

Github pull request
lots of back and forth
Should have been closed due to OBS COC
Is OBS playing gatekeeper?
OBS is not blocking Kick
Write or call in!

44:00 News Wire

Solus Linux 4.5 - GetSol
MKVtoolnix 82 - MKVtoolnix
Calibre - Calibre
Vim 9.1 - Vim
Firewalld 2.1 - Firewalld
CmdlineGL - Nrdvana
Linux Mint 21.3 - Phoronix
Linux 6.7 - OMG Ubuntu
GNU Linux-libre 6.7 - Lists GNU
Rust Toolchain, Linux 6.8 - Phoronix
x86-64-v3 RHEL 10 - Phoronix
Thelio and AMD Threadrippers - How to Geek

45:15 Framework Laptop Interview

Daniel Schäfer
How did the Framework come about?
How did you get involved?
Laptop dis-assembly
Hardware kill switches
14" vs 16"
What work is left on the 16"?
USB-C Expansion protocol
3rd party products
Published expansion card spec

51:48 Gen-Z Terminal Emulator

Waveterm
Start with basics, work your way up
Installer is a zip file

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Episode 370: Ask Noah Show 370 Jan 02, 2024

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This week Noah and Steve dig back through 2023 and give you a Home Automation Year Roundup! We look at your questions throughout the year and evaluate how we would answer those questions today!

-- During The Show --

Future Home Automation

5 inch tablets
M5Stack Speakers

Steve's 2023 Purchases

Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 (Amazon)
Sonoff S40 Lite Zigbee Smart Plug (Amazon)
Zigbee 2 Channel Smart Relay (Amazon)
Eco-Worthy Linear Actuator (Amazon)
Aqara Door Sensor (Cloud Free)
Aqara Temperature Sensor (Cloud Free)
WiFi vs Zigbee High Availability
GHome Smart WO2 Smart Outlet (Amazon)
Shelly Plus 1 (Shelly)
Shelly Plus 1PM (Shelly)
Shelly Plus 1 Mini (Shelly)
No longer flashing shelly devices
Shelly Plus Addon (Amazon)
50ft 360 LED Waterproof Rope Light (Amazon)
WS2811 LED strings (Amazon)
seedstudio mmWave sensor (Aamzon)
ATOM Echo Smart Speaker (M5 Stack Speaker)
Voice control
Ring Contact Sensors (Amazon)
Updates

21:25 Noah's 2023 Experiences

Started with X10, very bad
Lutron, reliable
HASSIO new "source of truth"
Integration wins
- Axis front door camera
GridCards
5 inch touch screen (Amazon)
Instant (proprietary) vs Delayed (open standard) reaction
Better way of doing things (Node-RED)
Direct connection vs intermediary

34:20 Steve's 2023 Experiences

Axis PTZ camera
ONVIF
LED lighting flashing
Tiny tweaks, big wins
Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 controller
ZHA to Zigbee2MQTT
Zigbee in general
Cloud Free smart plugs
Plastic sprinkler timer
Shelly warranty service
Amazon Seller Yantech
Amazon Seller Xiaxuanke

45:20 Commercial Home Assistant

Spouse approval factor vs Commercial

47:15 2024 Projects

Motion sensors in switches just work
Power monitoring in the box
Noah's Dad's house
Scene switch suggestions - write in!
Expanding Volumio

53:40 Zigbee/Zwave Question: - Zac

Local devices on registered frequency - best way
Zigbee & ZWave
Advantages of Wifi

57:20 Light Automation: John

Inadvertently resetting
Noah's can lights
Each light on it's own dimmer
Control with home assistant
Past answer
Sensing switches

1:01:30 Garage Detector/Leak Sensor - Shawn

Automates the lights
Past answer
Honeywell magnet sensor
Pressure switch

1:04:30 Smart Thermostats - Ryan

Centralite Pearl thermostat
Venstar Thermostat
Honeywell Redlink system
Past answer

1:08:51 Smart Door Locks - Eddie

Axis A1001
R10 mini reader
MiFare 2 Standard
New system no longer has web UI
Axis 8105
Past answer

1:13:40 Replace Home Security System with Home Assistant - Jeremy

Home Assistant has
Haven't used it
Alarm relay
Honeywell security system

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Episode 369: Ask Noah Show 369 Dec 26, 2023

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This week we dig into feedback from someone looking at a new IT job, Steve gives an update on trying to maintain a presence on a platform that doesn't want him.

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00:55 Bad Hardware Day

Motherboard swap
PSU modular cables
Fan controller magic smoke
Bent CPU pins

06:48 VMs and Storage - Joe

Advantages of separating OS and Data
Joe's GitHub
IX Systems and 45 Drives
Use JBOD not Raid
ZFS needs direct access
HA (High Availability)

15:40 VM Storage Question - Rod

iSCSI
ZVols as block devices
QCow2 file
Dedicated disks
9p driver
virtio drivers
Nothing wrong with NFS
ifnotify

22:53 Printer Questions - Eddie

Good experience with HP Printer Tools/Jet Direct
Mostly moved away from LPD/LPR
IPP is where things are headed
Immutable distros only support IPP
For best results go through add printer dialog

28:15 Comments From New IT Person - Joshua

Start with pain points
Start with your pain points
Document existing infrastructure
Find a way to say yes
Prepare for the opportunity
"You are the expert"
Yes but....
What is motivating people

41:22 Choosing Platforms

Locked out from Linkedin
Emailed code, Linkedin errored out
Required phone and government ID
Issues with this approach
Phone numbers
Beeper + Linkedin

49:13 Beeper Gives up on iMessage

One last go
ARS Technica
Beeper Blog Post
[Beeper Bridge](github.com/beeper/imessage)
The Verge

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Episode 368: Ask Noah Show 368 Dec 19, 2023

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This week Till Kamppeter joins The Ask Noah Show and we talk about OpenPrinting. We answer your questions, and if you were hosting your Matrix instance with EMS we'll walk you through the latest announcement.

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Feedback about BT extension EP 351 - John

Cheap phone watch
Disdain for any kind of phone

Kid Friendly Distro Feedback - Jeremy

PFSense + pfBlockerNG
Canadian Block Lists GitHub
Will this work with DNS over TLS?
Null out IPs

Linux Smart Phones - Sandro

Linux is coming to the mobile game 10 years late
Some of the "Linux Mobile OSes" use an Android shim to talk to the hardware
GrapheneOS has been great
A few small issues
Current hardware is under powered

DBs for Home Lab - Sandro

Pass the vdev directly into the VM

OpenWRT Home Router - elguaje3ero

OpenWRT
Sophos XG135
Ebay Link

News Wire

Qubes OS 4.2 - Linux IAC
Fedora Asahi Linux 39 - Asahi Linux
Manjaro 23.1 - Manjaro
PostmarketOS 23.12 - Debug Point News
Calameres 3.3 - Calamares
Shotcut 23.12 - Shotcut
Ardour 8.2 - Ardour
Peazip 9.6 - Peazip Github
GNU Cash 5.5.5 - GNU Cash
Gnome 44.7 - Discourse Gnome.org
Firefox 121 - OMG Ubuntu
MS Windows AI Studio - The Register
NKAbuse Malware - Dark Reading

SSH MitM

Terrapin SSH attack
Requires either ChaCha20-Poly1305 or CBC-EtM
Targets Binary Packet Protocol
ARS Technica Article

EMS Discontinuing Hosting

EMS did a great job
Per user is not cost effective
Offering a reduced min user business subscription
Billed for a year, cut short
Early adopter tax
Element Starter
- Your own server
- No support
- Up to 200 users
- ???
Opens up hosting to more people
Black Lists
Element One
Beeper iMessage whack-a-mole
Better story than slack, discord, etc
Element Announcement Blog Post
Matrix Governing Board Blog Post
Beeper iMessage (The Register)

Fedora Asahi

Presentation experience
Script turns Mac into Linux machine
Audio disabled
Flawless
Apple engineers changed the firmware
9 to 5 Linux

Firefox 121

Wayland by default
Picture in Picture
9 to 5 Linux

PostmarketOS

Postmarket OS 23.12
New chrome books supported
New single board computers supported
Encryption supported
Additional safety checks
9 to 5 Linux
Debug Point News

Interview with Till Kamppeter

Leads the OpenPrinting project
LPD
PostScript Printers
PCL printers
Ghostscript
magicfilter
LPR Command
CUPS - early 2000s
Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)
2.0 IPP
Print dialog
Raster Formats (driverless printing)
- Apple raster
- Printer Working Group
- PCLM
How driver-less printing works
Choosing a printer
- firmware tricks
- subscription models
- Brother printers

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Ask Noah Show 367 Dec 12, 2023

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This week Noah and Steve discuss picking out a vHost and considerations for deploying it into production.

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02:00

Types of AI
Amount of compute required is astronomical
Foundational model vs tweaking

05:55 Kid Friendly distro? - Chris

Endless OS
What age to give kids a computer
Why give a kid a computer
Why Endless OS
OpenDNS Filtering

14:13 Serial Connection To Proxmox VMs - Michael

Client Setting
Host Setting
Enable the serial console
Proxmox Wiki

17:15 pfSense blocking active connections - Bradly

Stateful firewalls don't break active connections/sessions

21:00 News Wire

EXT4 Corruption Bug - LWN
Gnome 45.2 - Gnome
Libreoffice 7.6.4 - Libreoffice
Jellyfin Android TV App - Jellyfin
Jellyfin Roku App - Jellyfin
Debian 12.4 - Debian
Alpine Linux 3.19 - Alpine Linux
Linux 6.8 Dropping Old Graphics Drivers - Phoronix
NSA & ESF Recommended Practices - NSA
OpenZeppelin Vulnerability - Bleeping Computer
Bluetooth Authentication Bypass - Silicon Angle
Krasue RAT - The Hacker News
Automatic LLM AI Jail Break - Robust Intelligence
EU AI Act - Reuters
Purple Llama - Info World
Apple Open Sources AI Tools - The Stack
Systemd 255 - The Verge - Phoronix

24:00 Beeper Mini

First impression, really cool but will only work till Apple notices
Android users clearly want modern features
3 days after release, it all came to a halt
Apple's FUD statement
Beeper mini enabled security for non Apple users
Apple's response reduces security and privacy
Apple's response protects the iMessage lock-in effect
Issue with other "encrypted apps"
Focus of Beeper
Beeper cloud uses its own cloud server
Give beeper mini a review
Beeper blog post

37:45 vHost Hardware

What is a vHost
What does Steve consider
- network
- drives
- RAM
- CPU
Lots of compute nodes vs a few large nodes
Stage 1 - is it viable
- $1k-50k quotes
- Started with 2 vdevs with 3 drives
Stay under 85%
Stage 2 Scale up
DELL EMC POWEREDGE R7425
- 8 BAY LFF SERVER
- 2x AMD EPYC 7451
- H330 3 PCI RISER RPS
DELL PowerEdge R6525
- 1U Server
- 2 x AMD EPYC 7542 2.9Ghz CPU
- 256 GB No HDD
Can save a lot buying used
Local vs Central storage
Data centralized
qcow2 on vHost
- 2 vdevs
- 2 disks per vdev
Dell EMC KTN-STL3 drive shelf
- 15 disks in 2U
- Requires LSI SAS9200-8e
NetApp DS4246
- 24 disks in 4U
- Requires LSI SAS9200-8e
- QSFP SFF-8436 Mini SAS SFF-8088 Cable
Don't store Nextcloud data on OS qcow2 disk
There will always be a single point of failure
Change ZFS settings based on data being stored
Easiest way to get a vHost up and running
KVM vs "appliance OS"
Bridging vs MAC vTap
RAM is likely your biggest constraint
Ubuntu libvirt doc

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