• @iggyEnglish
    8•9 months ago

    Internet:

    • 1G fiber

    Router:

    • N100 with dual 2.5G nics

    Lab:

    • 3x N100 mini PCs as k8s control plane+ceph mon/mds/mgr
    • 4x Aoostar R7 “NAS” systems (5700u/32G ram/20T rust/2T sata SSD/4T nvme) as ceph OSDs/k8s workers

    Network:

    • Hodge podge of switches I shouldn’t trust nearly as much as I do
    • 3x 8 port 2.5G switches (1 with poe for APs)
    • 1x 24 port 1G switch
    • 2x omada APs

    Software:

    • All the standard stuff for media archival purposes
    • Ceph for storage (using some manual tiering in cephfs)
    • K8s for container orchestration (deployed via k0sctl)
    • A handful of cloud-hypervisor VMs
    • Most of the lab managed by some tooling I’ve written in go
    • Alpine Linux for everything

    All under 120w power usage

    • slazer2auEnglish
      1•9 months ago

      How are you finding the AooStar R7? I have had my eye on it for a while but not much talk about it outside of YouTube reviews

      • @iggyEnglish
        1•9 months ago

        They’ve been rock solid so far. Even through the initial sync from my old file server (pretty intensive network and disk usage for about 5 days straight). I’ve only been running them for about 3 months so far though, so time will tell. They are like most mini pc manufacturers with funny names though. I doubt I’ll ever get any sort of bios/uefi update