Fringemonkey's 100 Days of Homelab

[terse isle]

This is super motivational to me, I have been suffering from a lack of motivation with my lab, and home services. I plan to use this as motivation to complete these outstanding projects, and move on to new more enjoyable projects.
link to my hardware post:
https://discord.com/channels/677701098101932032/1059752305693564938

Some of the Major Goals I have for this project are:

• Home network resiliency.
  • Tim's short at the start of the Pi Hole HA video(link) is exactly why.
• Network unification.
  • I have a small ISP that runs my most external network, and then I also have my "Home" and a "Lab" network. Looking to condense this.
• Home Automation.
  • I have been messing with Home Assistant off and on for quite a few years, but have never fully utilized the hardware I currently have, much less want.
• Home Lab hardware.
  • I have collected quite a bit of hardware that isn't being used for the propose they were bought or are offline.
• Local services
  • Kubernetes
  • Resilient storage
  • SSL/Let's Encrypt
  • this list is basically infinite...
• Robots?
• AI/Machine Learning?
• Documentation!

Edit :
Today I had planned to work on setting up a Pi to do PiHole redundancy with. But creating these post helped me realize how badly I need better documentation. I recently discovered Obsidian https://obsidian.md/ and have been working on getting a system established there to inventory and document my lab work, and other parts of my life.
So with that in mind I am setting my first 3 goals of:

• Get all server and networking hardware into Obsidian.
• Set up PiHole Redundancy on a Pi, and on 2 nodes of PVE.
• Set up an Obsidian container to run as a web service locally, with the intention of making it public at some point in the future.

[terse isle]

Starting with documentation, oh boy! Have come up with the Template I want to use inside of obsidian for the Servers and Network.(pic 1and2)
Then I have that data rolling up onto my inventory page. (Pic 3)
Inside of obsidian this is being done with a community plugin named Dataview. The tables look like this.(Pic 4). All of the data, in the method I am using comes from the "Frontmatter" an Obsidian term for metadata. it is the data between the

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Frontmatter
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This is one of the main reason I went with obsidian for my notes and info dump. It feels like a coders tool.
I got about half of the servers and 1/4 of the network gear done today. On to the rest tomorrow.

[terse isle]

1/5/23
With the help of @sweet badge and quite a few others I spent some time working on Switching to ZFS. This is my first experience with ZFS. I have PERC H740P raid cards in my main PVE hosts, I updated the firmware of the cards and enabled EHBA mode. While doing this i had to remove the VDisks from the controller and that would have been an issue if I had data on them. After updating and changing the mode, ZFS was simple to deploy in striped mirror.