https://relvokcor.xyz/~sean/tags/ceph/ Recent content in Ceph on skj.dev Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us © 2020 Sean Johnson Sun, 27 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://relvokcor.xyz/~sean/posts/ceph-p2/ Sun, 27 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://relvokcor.xyz/~sean/posts/ceph-p2/ Hardware Considerations Like with most Home Lab setups, a lot of success can be tied to having the right hardware for the job. The hard part is finding the right balance. It’s tempting to pick up corporate cast offs of data center servers for pennies on the dollar, but that stuff is built to be in a data center, not in a house. While I like having a small rack for my gear, except for the Cisco switch, it’s all shelves. https://relvokcor.xyz/~sean/posts/ceph-p1/ Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://relvokcor.xyz/~sean/posts/ceph-p1/ The Problem With Storage One of the biggest Home Lab challenges is storage. The Home Lab is ideally a microcosm of a larger, organization financed, infrastructure. Many components nicely scale down to the home. Multi core Xeon servers with hundreds of Gigs of RAM can be represented by Intel NUCs and Raspberry Pis. Networking gear can be exactly the same in the case of managed switches, and pfSense can provide sophisticated firewall services while running on a much smaller box.