I just got two of these. Fully loaded. Disks, sleds, rails.
Fiber cards + 4 onboard NICs and 4 more on another card.
Its a dual proc board with a bunch of ram slots. (I think its Sandybridge procs, DDR3.)
20 HDD bays. These things are (older) beastly storage boxen.

Board Manufacturer: Supermicro
Chassis Part Number: CSE-846BTS-R920BP
Board Part Num: X9DRi-LN4+/X9DR3-LN4+
Product PartNum: SSG-6047R-E1R24N

I got them because they were at a remote colo, and they crashed a bunch of times.
They cost us more downtime than they were worth.
I happened to be in town and made my boss an offer.
He didn't have to pay for e-waste fees, and I removed his problem for the low, low cost of $0.

So now they are my problem.
I don't need 200 TB of redundant storage. I'm gonna shop em out and sell em.
No idea if the dual 920 watt psu will blow my apt breakers. Takes a lot of juice to spin 20 hdds.

So far, I've hauled them across half the US, up my stairs, and admired them.
I found a youtuber 'Art of the Server' with some helpful vids. Watched a bunch.
No real idea what I'm doing next.

I've configured them several times in the past. They always died after months of steady service.
Dead disks, etc. Maybe bad controllers?
A fault that intermittent is hard to diagnose, but they are in front of me now.
I can do whatever I need to. These are complicated devices.
My original plan of teardown and rebuild seems unwise now.

I'm interested in any practical feedback.

It was actually not too traumatic. At my kitchen sink, nice plastic bag handy. Paper towels. All clean.

And then I had this bag.
1 lbs.

By the skin of my teeth. 72 questions.
I blasted through the last questions. Time closed on question 72.
The lablet section must have had a lot of point value. I spent an hour on them, got em right. Got all the subnetting shit. Think I nailed IPv6.

I can stop spending all my free time studying. Go have a drink .
Whew.

I decided to get my CCNA last summer after losing out on a senior role because I didn't have it. I signed up for the free CCST training and completed Network and Cybersecurity, tested in January.

I used a bunch of other Cisco resources and some 3rd party training to continue on. I just completed all the coursework.

Got 80% on a practice test today.
I got every subnetting, binary, or hex question correct.
Fuk ya. And I have a list of shit to review.

I'm an old fukin man. I wasn't sure if I was still sharp enough.
2 weeks from now. I'm gonna pass this test.

This little code snip can help you out in a pinch.
Try this if you have an unstable server with running guests and reboot is not an option.

service pve-cluster restart && service pvedaemon restart && service pvestatd restart && service pveproxy restart

If you do it in the shell window, it will disconnect the shell, but seems to complete the command just fine.
You should see the nodes briefly grey out and come back.

I've read that you need to reset all of those, in that order. See the linked wiki article for more info.

I downloaded the CommodoreOS3-20250422_0209.iso when it was released. The file is 37 GB. HyperV didn't recognize it as an ISO, and I just didn't put any further work into getting it going. I still have this monster ISO just sitting there, almost a year later.

Did anyone get it installed? They do have video about the initial experience right there on the download page. It sounds pretty unique.

https://www.commodoreos.net/CommodoreOS.aspx

Maybe I'll sneakernet that 40gb file to my server or something.

Gawd that is a hell of a ride. Very interactive. I"ve done the in-place upgrade on about 8 servers now. Frequent surprises.

(Chickin pic tangentally related.)

Black Rainbows' album Holy Moon is some of the best space rock I've ever heard. It's got staying power. I listen to it at least once a week.

I think these guys are out of Italy. The lead, Gabriel Fiore, is quite a force in the stoner rock scene. His Heavy Psych Sounds label seemingly carries everyone cool.

Black Rainbows later stuff sounds like a European Monster Magnet, totally kick-ass. I like all their music, but this album is special. This one takes you places.

And if it takes you to the right places, you can even buy it.
https://heavypsychsoundsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/black-rainbows-holy-moon-ep

This was in my Cisco training. Unidirectional line break.

No. I don't speak Japanese. Or whatever that is.

The paper.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237.pdf
It's worth a read. Lotta sarcasm going on.
16 pages. Dogs. Cards. Odds. Lies. Tariffs.

I just finished my Cisco CCST Cybersecurity. The whole course of study is pretty much to get you skilled up enough to operate and understand the Security Onion console. The last half of the last class is all about handling the alerts.

Well, the CCST was a pretty cursory introduction to an extremely complicated platform. I checked out the vendor training, and its alright. Its a set of videos that walk you through setup and usage of a demo install. (See post link.) I've set it up at home, and I'm monitoring my network.

I know we use Security Onion at work, and I asked about it. Well apparently its completely broken, and my first task as a newly certified network security guy is to rebuild it.

Yup. I ate the Onion. ... err ... or I'm in process. Chomp, chomp, chomp.

Ya. I did it on my nextcloud collabora. Love this shit.
I wish nextcloud managed playing music in a more normal fashion, but as a document editor and repository, it's doing great for me.
And even the music player ... well it works. I'm listening to it.
My cheap-ass hetzner for $5/month and nextcloud. Takin care of my biz.