small home labber
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That full fibre line must be fun and the VMs on the XCP-ng must be really enjoying the performance.
So whatever is hosted on it will really like it, if your using it for anything internet demanding there's going to be no delay. Including when updating and upgrading software.
Especially when downloading new ISOs for software upgrades, depending on the file size - blink and you'll miss the download progressing to completion.
We here in the United Kingdom are still in the process of getting our fibre networks built in several places. So in some places of the UK large file sizes are really noticeable and annoying depending on the individuals internet connection.
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@john-c true, download is fun, the limiting factor is mostly the other side of a download streams. But it’s also “best effort” from ISP. Effectively I doubt I get full speed ever these days. It’s still consumer grade connection and competing neighbors I assume. And double-NATing due to DS-Lite for IPv4 with the Classical Japanese way of non-standard implementation. But no complain, not suffer from any limitation in real life.
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@ChristianL Just saying hi as a soon to be fellow user of the Minisforum MS-01s.
I'm migrating away from running XCP-NG on one of the original 6 port Protectli model of NUC-like computers that I've run XCP on for 5 years, because one of them finally died approx a month ago.
Come the end of next week, I should have 3 MS-01 units to build my own XCP-NG HA cluster with & am excited about getting started with those little beasts.
Have you seen any issues with your own unit / install?
I hope to get a Thunderbolt mesh network going for the clusters; am hoping it works as well on XCP-NG as others have reported on Proxmox.
Anyways, just wanted to say Hi to a fellow MS-01 user.
Best regards
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@cowboy Hi, nice to meet you. I really like the formfactor of the MS-01. Sweet little box. Installation was smooth. No issues at all. USB in, boot, done. Then of course I had my own learning curve in getting VMs up and running and XOA Community installed. But thanks to trial version of XOA and the YT stuff from Tom Lawrence it got much easier.
My only painpoint still open with the performance of my VLAN routing desire. Not sure if OPNsense or xcp-ng or the combination is the issue. Would be nice to have a second (or third) MS-01 to test further. And I fear that will actually soon happen
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@ChristianL Yeah, the learning curve can be a tad difficult at the start. I came to XCP-NG on my own in 2018 (just as the project got off the ground) after having to work on securing Citrix XenServer environments at my former employer (circa 2008-2015) and even for me then, I spent a few late nights trying to wrap my head around how it all went together. But since then, I've relied on XCP-NG to run / host my Home Assistant instance (among many other things) to automate and maintain my multiple marine fish & coral reef aquariums at home for 6 years now.
What's the issue with VLAN routing you see? You disabled hardware checksumming, right? Or are you doing NIC pass through?
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@cowboy I saw the OPNsense article after I installed and I think will retry once more UEFI. I think I have BIOS. The checksum is switched off as per article.
I have my VLAN issue posted over here: https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/9098/vlan-performance but not much response unfortunately.
I don't have passthrough tried; utilize the standard xcp-ng network settings. And the performance within same VLAN over to my NAS is nice. Issue mainly happen if I try routing between VLAN. Both when I switch VLAN via VIF or try OPNsense.
I might give FD.io a try; something I saw when looking for tsnr@netgate.
Oh, and home assistant I will also try on xcp-ng. And comparing to my current small mini PC/NUC style of hardware. For that sure I would need USB-passthrough I assume. But that not worry me (yet).
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@ChristianL added another ASrock-build with i5. With a BR-disc burner. Passed though the SATA adapter to a Debian VM to burn archive of data. Worked smooth in a way that the drive got identified and I can open/close the tray. Now I just need to solve my network issue and then can use k3b to burn backup on M-Disc/BR
And I really liked to move VM from the first little MS-01 just over to the new system.
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@ChristianL Cool to hear about your report and successes.
Sadly, Amazon lost my 3 X MS-01 computers in their distribution center in Witen Germany, and I have spent the last 10 days struggling with Amazon to give me a solution - either resend me 3 new ones (which they refused to do) or refund my money to a gift-card so I could immediately buy 3 new ones and get them shipped to me by tomorrow - which they said they cannot do because it was a high value ticket item. So now I'm stuck waiting another 3-5 days for my CC to get the refund, so I can order 3 new ones to replace the ones that were lost 15 days ago by Amazon.
I'll just source them via another channel now, but I'll eventually get them, and get started on mine.
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@cowboy Ouch, hopefully it get solved quickly with the financial impact and you next supplier works better.
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@ChristianL Well, good news. I have my MS-01s.
I've been futzing with them now for 36 hours and started off with 8.2.1 XCP-NG on it but was disturbed by the fact I'm not getting full 1 GB in both directions on my NICs.
Currently I don't have my SFP ports populated; I'm only using my 2 x 2.5Gbe NICs at the moment. Down seems to pull fine in at 1GBe (my switch is the choke) but going back out of my box suffers at approx 200Mb speeds.
I just now upgraded all three MS-01 nodes to 8.3 beta2 and still see the same limitation on sending stuff back out and up the Ethernet NICs.
Do you still see your VLAN performance issue? Have you checked to confirm that issue is specific to VLAN and not LAN?
Also, have you managed to get the Ethernet NIC feature of the Thunderbolt ports working?