Homelab
A two node Proxmox cluster, a laptop that is also a UPS, VLANs, DNS that broke itself, and the backups that quietly failed for twenty nights.
VLANs on Omada, and the flag that is not a bug
Four VLANs, two wireless networks, one controller, and a config flag that reads as broken every time anyone looks at it. This is the networking layer under the rest of the homelab…
Split horizon DNS, and the day my own domain broke a cron job
Split horizon DNS means one name answering differently depending on who asks. Inside the network, a hostname resolves to a private address and traffic never leaves the switch. Outside, the same name…
The homelab hardware: two Proxmox nodes, a laptop, and a Pi
Two Proxmox nodes, a Raspberry Pi and a NAS. The primary node was built to be the server and does nothing else. The secondary is my college laptop, which is also the…
A two node Proxmox cluster, and the quorum problem
A two node Proxmox cluster is the configuration the documentation quietly warns you about, and the one almost every homelab ends up building anyway. Two votes, majority needed, so losing either node…
GPU passthrough on Proxmox, and why not an LXC
There are two ways to give a virtual machine a GPU on Proxmox, and most homelab guides pick the wrong one for the wrong reason. The usual advice is to run the…
