Hello, everyone.
as subj. says I need a bit help with setting up my home lab.
here what I have:
I have a AMD FX8320 8 core with 16GB ram server setup with 1TB system drive as /sda
3 NICs
Partitions are
/sda
-- /sda1 => /boot - 1GB
-- /sda2 => swap - 100GB
-- /sda3 => / - 200GB as btrfs
-- /sda4 => /home 600GB as btrfs
running OpenSuse 13.1 LXDE setup + Xen.
all updated current. (had installed all just yesterday and run all updates "zypper up" and /Yast/Updates)
I have a second 1TB drive that I initially wanted to use for /home partition but gave up on that at the moment so it is seating there free and clear.
I have 1 x2TB drive(LABEL: DATASTORE1) with BTRFS partition and 4 subvolumes(@fileDump/@torrentActive/@UserFiles/@someOtherStuff) with data on it.
I have 2x3TB drives (LABEL: MEDIA1) configured as a BTRFS Raid1 also with data on it.
the data drives where setup and configured and filled with data several month before and survived 3 system re-installs so far.
I just pop them out during initial setup (thanks god for hot swap bays) and pop them back in after setup.
what I want is in order of importance and as I plan to progress :
#1 . setup a File Server in VM to share all this data with any machine on network
#2. setup a VM for downloading and processing things via deluge/tranmision/ subNZB / sick beard /coach potato
#3. setup am owncloud VM to share this data on network and internet
my initial plan was to:
setup the HOST (done)
configure the data drives and share them via NFS/SAMBA to be accessible anywhere on the network
this solves the internal network sharing.
setup VM with owncloud and attach the existing shares as drives to it for sharing over the internet.
setup VM with all downloading stuff and attache the appropriate shares to it as drives.
my issue(s) and questions are as folows:
what and how many users I might need to use for all this data sharing. as in
do I create a special user for attach to host shares from VM
do I create a single user and use it in all VMs
how do I setup the shares? NFS or SAMBA
do I use NFS on Host(the server itself) to do all the internal sharing and use VM file server with SAMBA to allow sharing to windows PC.
how do I attach the Host shares to VM(s) for that matter?
I am some what new to the Linux in general but I can follow directions.
I have played with OpenSuse 13.1 setup for a while now and Xen setup as well so I can create VM in there and with the new hardware I even should be able to pass-through some stuff if needs be.
also I plan to setup Sophos UTM for internet sharing but not sure when it will come to life yet so internet stuff can wait.
PS>> I have managed to setup an x11vnc server on this server to desktop sharing so I can do all remotely from my main PC.
also all PC in the house are currently mix Linux distros like OpenSuse KDE and Linux Mint and Xubuntu or Mint HTPC with XBMC , but a windows PC can and will be added as I ahve several guests and in-laws coming now and than with their laptops so it needs to be accounted for as well.
the main goal for all this to have a descent file server and also a Media server for HTPC front end.
all data shares will be accessed for simple data stores and Media streaming.
thanks.
as subj. says I need a bit help with setting up my home lab.
here what I have:
I have a AMD FX8320 8 core with 16GB ram server setup with 1TB system drive as /sda
3 NICs
Partitions are
/sda
-- /sda1 => /boot - 1GB
-- /sda2 => swap - 100GB
-- /sda3 => / - 200GB as btrfs
-- /sda4 => /home 600GB as btrfs
running OpenSuse 13.1 LXDE setup + Xen.
all updated current. (had installed all just yesterday and run all updates "zypper up" and /Yast/Updates)
I have a second 1TB drive that I initially wanted to use for /home partition but gave up on that at the moment so it is seating there free and clear.
I have 1 x2TB drive(LABEL: DATASTORE1) with BTRFS partition and 4 subvolumes(@fileDump/@torrentActive/@UserFiles/@someOtherStuff) with data on it.
I have 2x3TB drives (LABEL: MEDIA1) configured as a BTRFS Raid1 also with data on it.
the data drives where setup and configured and filled with data several month before and survived 3 system re-installs so far.
I just pop them out during initial setup (thanks god for hot swap bays) and pop them back in after setup.
what I want is in order of importance and as I plan to progress :
#1 . setup a File Server in VM to share all this data with any machine on network
#2. setup a VM for downloading and processing things via deluge/tranmision/ subNZB / sick beard /coach potato
#3. setup am owncloud VM to share this data on network and internet
my initial plan was to:
setup the HOST (done)
configure the data drives and share them via NFS/SAMBA to be accessible anywhere on the network
this solves the internal network sharing.
setup VM with owncloud and attach the existing shares as drives to it for sharing over the internet.
setup VM with all downloading stuff and attache the appropriate shares to it as drives.
my issue(s) and questions are as folows:
what and how many users I might need to use for all this data sharing. as in
do I create a special user for attach to host shares from VM
do I create a single user and use it in all VMs
how do I setup the shares? NFS or SAMBA
do I use NFS on Host(the server itself) to do all the internal sharing and use VM file server with SAMBA to allow sharing to windows PC.
how do I attach the Host shares to VM(s) for that matter?
I am some what new to the Linux in general but I can follow directions.
I have played with OpenSuse 13.1 setup for a while now and Xen setup as well so I can create VM in there and with the new hardware I even should be able to pass-through some stuff if needs be.
also I plan to setup Sophos UTM for internet sharing but not sure when it will come to life yet so internet stuff can wait.
PS>> I have managed to setup an x11vnc server on this server to desktop sharing so I can do all remotely from my main PC.
also all PC in the house are currently mix Linux distros like OpenSuse KDE and Linux Mint and Xubuntu or Mint HTPC with XBMC , but a windows PC can and will be added as I ahve several guests and in-laws coming now and than with their laptops so it needs to be accounted for as well.
the main goal for all this to have a descent file server and also a Media server for HTPC front end.
all data shares will be accessed for simple data stores and Media streaming.
thanks.