OK here's the deal
I have multiple Ubuntu / Linux Mint / Debian etc Servers that I play with at home.
And I want to simplify my life A LOT
Always known about it, sometimes had a fiddle to get it going... but usually ran out of time or changed systems around... so never actually managed to get it all working.
So I have an Xpenology box thats always turned on..but really all it does is hold movies and tv series for the other half... it can to TFTP / NFS etc and I had it setup one for installing OS's (ESXi, Ubuntu etc)
I am planing to make most of my gear diskless now... so might as well set it up properly once and for all
So does anyone have a good guide / notes etc on how to get it setup?
I realise that I can have one image for several of the same hardware machines.....so that will simplify some of it.
Here is what I would like in the end
Xpenology box will hold VM's and Boot/Root images and file systems, then I can fire up machines as I see fit but have all data in one place.
Backups are in place to a second Xpenology box so thats taken care of
Both Xpenology box (always on and backup boxes) have
AMD A4-4000
4Gb Ram
8 x 2TB drives
1 x Gigabit onboard ( 10.0.0.x ) and servers the general household data
2 x 10GB Emulex HBA's (192.168.2.x and 192.168.3.x) Storage and VM Networks
DNS and DHCP can be managed from the always on Box
So I am sort of set there
Anyone care to share there notes on how you got it going. (google is just a mash of miss information and or outdated guides.
Failing that maybe we can get our heads together to make something simple for others to base their own setups off of?
Here is hoping
.
I have multiple Ubuntu / Linux Mint / Debian etc Servers that I play with at home.
And I want to simplify my life A LOT
Always known about it, sometimes had a fiddle to get it going... but usually ran out of time or changed systems around... so never actually managed to get it all working.
So I have an Xpenology box thats always turned on..but really all it does is hold movies and tv series for the other half... it can to TFTP / NFS etc and I had it setup one for installing OS's (ESXi, Ubuntu etc)
I am planing to make most of my gear diskless now... so might as well set it up properly once and for all
So does anyone have a good guide / notes etc on how to get it setup?
I realise that I can have one image for several of the same hardware machines.....so that will simplify some of it.
Here is what I would like in the end
Xpenology box will hold VM's and Boot/Root images and file systems, then I can fire up machines as I see fit but have all data in one place.
Backups are in place to a second Xpenology box so thats taken care of
Both Xpenology box (always on and backup boxes) have
AMD A4-4000
4Gb Ram
8 x 2TB drives
1 x Gigabit onboard ( 10.0.0.x ) and servers the general household data
2 x 10GB Emulex HBA's (192.168.2.x and 192.168.3.x) Storage and VM Networks
DNS and DHCP can be managed from the always on Box
So I am sort of set there
Anyone care to share there notes on how you got it going. (google is just a mash of miss information and or outdated guides.
Failing that maybe we can get our heads together to make something simple for others to base their own setups off of?
Here is hoping
.