fpp-vm
Setup VM for fpp (Falcon Pi Player)
We setup a new VM for the Falcon Pi Player (fpp).
cluster
frigate
Add ceph client with rbd mount
To store the video data we use the existing ceph storage. We add a 10 GBE card to the server, install a ceph client, create an rbd image and mount that image as video disk into our video server and frigate container.
cluster
Restarting servers
After we rebooted the cluster-12 node many virtual machines were stuck in the freezed state.
cluster
Resize placement groups (64 -> 128)
The automatic algorithm now calculated an optimum of 128 placement groups, so we resize again.
cluster
Reduce placement groups
After removing all movies we need to reduce the number of placement groups to 64.
cluster
Adjust the number of placement groups
Placement groups optimization :-)
nas
Recreate smb storage (only backup)
As we screw up our file storage by overloading it we need to remove all files and disks and recreate it from scratch.
nas
Remove VMs including disks to fix storage shortage
After copying to many media files onto our NAS server, so we need to free some space.
cluster
Cluster nodes updates
We install the latest updates on nodes cluster-10, cluster-11 and cluster-12.
cluster-13
Setup cluster-13 node
We add another node to our cluster.
cluster
Reduce the number of placement groups
Ping pon
cluster-12
Problems with additional disks of node cluster-12
One day after adding the new disks to node cluster 12 they were no longer available as OSDs.
cluster
Update Intel 710X 10G ethernet NVM to 9.54
We install an update for our 10G Intel 710X non-volatile memory.
cluster
Update MS-01 BIOS to v1.27
We update the BIOS of our MS-01 servers to seek for solutions with our power problems due to adding a fourth and fifth SSD.
cluster
Resizing placement groups - more disks
We have to resize the placement groups to 256 due to adding more disks.
cluster
Network problems with Intel I226-V and -LM
There are known problems with the Intel I226-V and -LM network devices.