I have decided to setup my home lab to learn new virtualization software and Docker. This is also to prevent my experiments from killing my PC. The 8GB of RAM is causing horrible disk swapping,<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
The hardware I chose was a reconditioned LENOVO ThinkCentre M720q Tiny Desktop Gen 8 i5, RAM 32GB, SSD 256GB<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The delivery was swift, ordered on 7 Jun and delivered on 9 Jun. It came without the WiFi antenna and sealed. Therefore, I can’t view the expansion options available inside. I burn it in by watching a day’s worth of streaming videos\ud83d\ude01.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Putting Proxmox on it was a simple matter of adding the ISO to my USB thumb drive formatted with Ventoy. Ventoy enables the storage and use of multiple ISOs within a single USB thumb drive. Gone are the days of formatting a thumb drive for each ISO. To an OS, it appears as a mass storage. To the BIOS, it is a boot CD. In the BIOS, select boot from USB. When the computer boots up from Ventoy, you can choose the desired ISO stored in the thumb drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just accept the defaults, enter IP address and create 2 accounts. Root and normal user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Connect to the box via web GUI, Proxmox Virtual Environment via <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I couldn’t figure out how to paste into the VNC console within the web GUI. In the end, I just installed an SSH server and use Windows SSH client. I could easily paste in the scripts required to bring up the Immich and the arr stack. That will be the next post<\/p>\n\n\n\n I really should be using proper terminal software to save my session log.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ventoy link<\/a> Proxmox link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have decided to setup my home lab to learn new virtualization software and Docker. This is also to prevent my experiments from killing my PC. The 8GB of RAM is causing horrible disk swapping,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[330,632],"class_list":["post-6742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servers","tag-lenovo","tag-proxmox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6742"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6752,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6742\/revisions\/6752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}https:\/\/<ipaddress>:8006<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n