As I have been finalizing my plans for the storage system, I have been contemplating how it compares to my older storage system.  I have replaced the Hard Disk Drives…

The price of silence finally hits me.  Way back in the build section I mentioned how I replaced every fan in both chassis with low noise fans from Noctua.  Noise…

The Home Assistant VM will be roughly based on my previous Home Assistant VM, and the raspberry pi before that.  There is a guide on how to deploy Home Assistant…

The last time I attempted to passthrough a video card was about 5 years ago.  It did not work.  I remember trying a dozen things, getting confused, and eventually giving…

Storage Management System: I did not do a great deal of new research before deciding to continue with FreeNAS [1] as my storage solution.  I have, from time to time,…

From here on out I intend to basically break apart my posts based on which VM the issues I am working through are related to.  However, there are a few…

The last time I put together a home lab I took advantage of VMWare’s free software program.  This program is a really good business model.  Medium to large virtualization deployments…

When I first ordered the Slicestor 3448, I wanted to check if it would work as a main chassis just in case. The first thing I noticed was that my suspicions that this is the Chenbro RM43348 were definitely correct...

It is time to build the actual server.  I have covered the parts I purchased, and some of the basic mistakes made, however this did not all happen in a…

I have thought about how to proceed with this project and I have decided to break apart each particular VM I am building into its own series.  This is not…