Field notes from running IT for real businesses. Proxmox, TrueNAS, Grafana, onboarding automation, and what we learned doing it.
Grow a TrueNAS LUN and have Proxmox see the new space: rescan the session, resize the multipath map, then resize the PV once.
How to tear down an iSCSI-backed LVM storage in Proxmox without leaving stale sessions that reconnect on reboot.
The core steps to attach a TrueNAS iSCSI LUN to a Proxmox cluster over two dedicated paths, with each step marked as all-nodes or single-node.
Swapping every drive in a full NAS with no spare bays: a USB-C DAS, ZFS replication, the read-only trap, and the pool rename at the end.
How we turned a day-long manual onboarding process into a 20-minute automated pipeline that notifies IT, HR, and payroll on its own.
Not a trend list from a vendor deck. Five shifts we are actually doing for clients: VMware exits, immutable backups, MFA everywhere, live dashboards, onboarding automation.
The five warehouse numbers that change decisions once managers can see them live, and why the timing matters more than the volume of data.
