Well everything is moved over to an NFS datastore, thanks for the responses all
Performance seems unchanged (which is great)

Hi All,

Posted this on twitter a number of times, but here is my homelab.

From top to bottom:

• Unifi Pro Aggregation Switch
• Mikrotik CRS328-24P-4S+RM
• Intel i5 2400, 8GB Ram, Ubuntu 22.04 bare metal Xen Orchestra Community Edition
• Ryzen 3900XT, 64GB RAM, 2x10G network (1 for VM, 1 for iSCSI), XCP-NG 8.3
• Ryzen 5900X, 128GB RAM, 2x10G network (1 for VM, 1 for iSCSI) XCP-NG 8.3
• Ryzen 5900X, 128GB RAM, 2x10G network (1 for VM, 1 for iSCSI) XCP-NG 8.3
• Ryzen 3600, 16GB RAM, 2x25G network, 17x 480GB SAS SSD's (RAID F1 with 1 hot spare) Xpenology(Synology) 7.2.1 U1 for the iSCSI target.

I currently run a number of game servers on this setup:

• Minecraft.
• DCS World.
• IL-2 Great Battles Series (Stalingrad, Moscow, Kuban, Bodenplatte, Normandy etc.)
• Euro Truck Sim 2 and American Truck Sim.

I also run a few other things for my internal only network:

• iVENTOY
• PiHole
• Universal Media Server/PS3 Media server/etc.

Plan is to add a number of larger drives to the storage server, add in another NAS for backup storage to replace my existing NAS. And maybe one day pick up a Supermicro Microcloud AM5 system (8 Ryzen 7000 series in a 3U chassis)

Well everything is moved over to an NFS datastore, thanks for the responses all
Performance seems unchanged (which is great)

I would also suggest making sure you have enough airflow over the heatsinks on the board, particularly the ethernet chipset, it may be on the edge of its heat threshold.

@olivierlambert Just letting the latest backup job complete and will start resizing some things on the storage to start shuffling things over

@olivierlambert said in Delta Backup leaving snapshots:

Or to switch to thin based storage. In that case, a snapshot won't use extra space

And yes, the snapshot left is the reference since the last backup.

Testing with my workloads (game servers), NFS performance is not as good as iSCSI performance, but it has crossed my mind to revisit and test further (previous testing was in ESXi/vSphere v7).... but to do that I need to buy more disks.
Planning on adding 4x4tb sas ssd's to my storage server to migrate everything off the 17x480gb ssd array. and slowly build out the new array with additional disks over time

@Andrew Thanks, I thought as much... time to buy some bigger disks then I guess.

Hi, not sure if this is expected behavior or not but my delta backup job always leaves a snapshot there, is this correct behavior? My understanding was that it would remove the snapshot after the successful backup?

@lawrencesystems said in My XCP-NG Homelab 2023 edition:

@jmannik

Looks good, nice cable management as well.

Thanks, ill make a note to never show the other sides for cable management so that compliment still applies lol

Hi All,

Posted this on twitter a number of times, but here is my homelab.

From top to bottom:

• Unifi Pro Aggregation Switch
• Mikrotik CRS328-24P-4S+RM
• Intel i5 2400, 8GB Ram, Ubuntu 22.04 bare metal Xen Orchestra Community Edition
• Ryzen 3900XT, 64GB RAM, 2x10G network (1 for VM, 1 for iSCSI), XCP-NG 8.3
• Ryzen 5900X, 128GB RAM, 2x10G network (1 for VM, 1 for iSCSI) XCP-NG 8.3
• Ryzen 5900X, 128GB RAM, 2x10G network (1 for VM, 1 for iSCSI) XCP-NG 8.3
• Ryzen 3600, 16GB RAM, 2x25G network, 17x 480GB SAS SSD's (RAID F1 with 1 hot spare) Xpenology(Synology) 7.2.1 U1 for the iSCSI target.

I currently run a number of game servers on this setup:

• Minecraft.
• DCS World.
• IL-2 Great Battles Series (Stalingrad, Moscow, Kuban, Bodenplatte, Normandy etc.)
• Euro Truck Sim 2 and American Truck Sim.

I also run a few other things for my internal only network:

• iVENTOY
• PiHole
• Universal Media Server/PS3 Media server/etc.

Plan is to add a number of larger drives to the storage server, add in another NAS for backup storage to replace my existing NAS. And maybe one day pick up a Supermicro Microcloud AM5 system (8 Ryzen 7000 series in a 3U chassis)