Switching My Production Server to BTRFS

//btrfsreminders// Latest Updates: https://wiki.haacksnetworking.org/doku.php?id=computing:btrfsreminders IntroductionThis tutorial is for Debian users that want to create a JBOD pool using BTRFS subvolumes and its RAID10 equivalent. These types of setups are common and helpful for virtualization environments and hosting multiple services, either for serious home hobbyist use and/or small business level production. These approaches are not designed…

Classic Bridging w/ ifupdown

//classic-bridging// Latest Updates: https://wiki.haacksnetworking.org/doku.php?id=computing:classic-bridging This tutorial is for Debian users who want to create network bridges, or virtual switches, on production hosts. By production hosts, I mean something that’s designed to run virtual appliances (VMs, containers, etc.). This tutorial assumes you have access to PTR records and/or have a block of external IPs. In this…

Virtualization stack growing pains and PeerTube Hype!

//peertube// Latest Updates: https://wiki.haacksnetworking.org/doku.php?id=computing:peertube As part of the Haack’s Networking business, I run a virtualization stack on a Supermicro 6028U-TRTP+ Dual 8-core Xeon E5-2650 2.2Ghz, with 384GB RAM, which has 576 virtual CPUs to allocate, or 24*12*2, which is threads *cores*sockets. This host uses Debian and virsh+qemu and a collection of bash scripts to manage…

Automating virt-install with preseed.cfg

//preseed// Latest Updates: https://wiki.haacksnetworking.org/doku.php?id=computing:preseed I created my own virtualization stack which is complete with version control, file backups, full image backups and more. Additionally, because my client base and use-case does not require that I spin up VMs too often, it was very easy to just keep a few VMs pre-configured generically and then virt-clone…

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