Swapping the static VXLAN peer list for a BGP EVPN control plane across a FortiGate and a three node Proxmox cluster, and every place the two platforms tripped me up by disagreeing on what to state versus what to derive.
Standing up a single stretched Layer 2 segment between a FortiGate and a Proxmox host using unicast VXLAN, and proving the data plane before adding any complexity.
How I pick a Proxmox VM CPU type: host versus the x86-64-vN virtual types, the OS floors that make the choice for you, the Spectre and Meltdown flags those types quietly leave off, and why host is usually the wrong default on Windows.
How I set cache, aio, iothread, and discard on Proxmox VMs, decided by how each VM is used rather than the OS inside it, plus the ZFS foundations that keep those choices safe to leave alone for years.
How I carve up the /56 that Cox delegates over DHCPv6-PD across a FortiGate edge and a Brocade ICX core, why the prefix keeps changing, and the plan for automating the renumbering.
Basic iDRAC fan control with ipmitool, and why it stops working on newer firmware
Setting DDNS up on Cloudflare can be a little tricky, this is my experience with it
I’ve been playing with Obsidian for a few months, and wanted to share some thoughts
After 20+ years of Wordpress, I’m moving to Hugo!