Proxmox

Intro In my homelab, I run an Ubuntu gaming/AI VM with PCIe pass-through of an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060. After stumbling on r/overclocking and seeing people get great results overclocking Blackwell cards, I wanted to see how far I could push mine. Windows users have been getting huge gains on RTX …

Intro I recently acquired an RTX 5060 GPU and had to look at multiple sources in order to get passthrough working. This will outline all the steps I took in order to get it working on my Dell Poweredge T440 server. Update At the time of the post edit, Proxmox 9 has been released. I have updated my …

Intro My Synology NAS sends weekly (quick tests) and monthly (extended tests) health reports of its hard drives to my email. I wanted to add this functionality to my Proxmox server to keep an eye on my drives. After some trial and error, I successfully achieved this functionality. Now, I receive …

Intro In the quest to get more performance out of my inter-vm communication, I stumbled upon SR-IOV and virtual functions. I then purchased a 10gbe X540-T2 from a Chinese seller on eBay making sure to get one with a fan, as reports of this specific card say it runs quite hot. After setting …

Intro I recently acquired a Dell Poweredge T440, and after installing a GPU the fans skyrocketed. This turned the server into a noise machine. To solve this, I created a script that disables third-party PCI mode and based on a threshold, set the fan speed to 20% or to be controlled by Dell’s …

Intro It has always been recommended to give ZFS full disk control, so after placing my raid card in HBA mode, I went ahead and gave full disk control to my TrueNAS vm. Figuring out the id of the disk Typically, disks are labeled as /dev/sdX, but this can change when adding other drives or moving …