https://vninja.net/tags/ceph/Recent content in ceph on vNinja.net | VMware, VCF & HomelabHugo -- gohugo.ioen&copy; 2010 - 2026 <b>vNinja.net</b> <br/> <em>There is a thin line between agile and fragile</em>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:03:01 +0200https://vninja.net/2026/08/05/ceph-over-a-thunderbolt-ring-on-three-nucs/Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000https://vninja.net/2026/08/05/ceph-over-a-thunderbolt-ring-on-three-nucs/Building a dedicated Ceph storage fabric over a Thunderbolt 4 ring between three ASUS NUC 15 Pro nodes: the ports that enumerated nothing, the 15-month-old BIOS that turned out to be the real problem, the addressing scheme that survives reboots, and the node-failure test that proves the cluster actually holds up.https://vninja.net/2026/08/05/how-i-gitopsed-my-homelab/Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0000https://vninja.net/2026/08/05/how-i-gitopsed-my-homelab/My home lab has been a cluster for close to twenty years, from two Dell Precision T7500s to four Dell OptiPlex 7090 UFF nodes on VMware vSAN, to a new three node ASUS NUC 15 Pro cluster on Proxmox VE and Ceph. This is the story of the rebuild: why it happened now, what my first GitOps attempt got badly wrong, and the principles behind the single repo, called Dojo, that runs it all today.