{"id":59,"date":"2014-12-10T21:06:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T05:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asrivas.me\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2014-12-10T21:06:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T05:36:53","slug":"an-ode-for-a-home-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asrivas.me\/blog\/an-ode-for-a-home-server\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ode for a Home Server"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s to my home server. An HP Microserver N36L that is running ESX 5.5 and hosts my media, web, NAS and OpenVPN servers:<\/p>\n

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All the data disks are passed through using raw device mapping to FreeNAS which then treats them as JBOD for RAIDZ1. This is fine given that I don’t think of RAIDZ as a backup solution, but rather a solution for fault tolerance in the event of one of the disks failing. Once a week, I backup the data on the NAS to an external WD drive (not very reliable I know, but its cheap). All of the data is available to the media server over NFS and since this is intra-host VM network traffic, I expect it is comparable to a 1Gbps connection.<\/p>\n

Personally, I am quite happy with Plex as a home media server solution. Its easy to setup, the management console has a nice UI and a good range of configuration options for a free solution. Plex has apps for most platforms and also supports our\u00a0Samsung Smart TV. I tried\u00a0using mediatomb for a while which had a terrible user interface and was quite agonizing to setup.<\/p>\n

I run ownCloud on my web server to access my documents on the go. Its a bit tricky to set up since the files are shared over NFS and I would prefer to not allow write access over it. I decided to have a read only interface since the use case is for being able to access them, not modify them really. I also have a USB printer passed through to a VM and have CUPS setup to mediate access to it and give it print jobs remotely.<\/p>\n

I am always connected to my home VPN on the phone so all my data is routed through the home server; this also means I can check on all my VMs on the go so that’s great. This little box makes for a great home server \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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Here’s to my home server. An HP Microserver N36L that is running ESX 5.5 and hosts my media, web, NAS and OpenVPN servers: All the data disks are passed through using raw device mapping to FreeNAS which then treats them as JBOD for RAIDZ1. This is fine given that I don’t think of RAIDZ as … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asrivas.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asrivas.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asrivas.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asrivas.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asrivas.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.asrivas.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/www.asrivas.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asrivas.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asrivas.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asrivas.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}