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Homelab guide to the LSI 9211-8i
While learning about servers or the homelab community, you might have heard mentions and recommendations of the LSI 9211-8i HAB card. The card has had a long history, and some information on it has become unclear. This article will aim to clarify some of those details so you can know what the card does and how you can use it in your setup. We will learn about the typical applications for these cards, which business is currently making these HBA cards, and how that affects some of the information about these cards, finally, how we can flash these cards with firmware to get new features or lock some features of the cards depending on your application.
Building A Dell R610 Homelab
When you're looking to set up a homelab to learn more about running applications or administering computers effectively, You can get away with running labs on your computer. Still, you might start hitting bottlenecks on CPU and memory resources, or your current computer doesn't have the features or hardware you want more hands-on time.
Portainer Beginners Guide
If you have been running Docker in your homelab for some time, you may have headaches trying to use the CLI in some environments, especially running many containers. You may think it would be nice to have a GUI for the environment to handle some administration tasks with Docker in a single place. This article will discuss how you can use Portainer to make your administration tasks a little easier. We will cover what Portainer is and how you can use it, how you install Portainer on a host and some simple administrative tasks you can carry out using Portainer.
10 Apps for your Homelab in 2021
You may have lots of reasons for what you run your lab but there is an always growing list of new things to try in your Homelab or server. Checkout this quick list of 10 apps that you can try out and see if you can get some new functionality for free through self hosting.
