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Spent the last couple of days building an IT Asset Management System. It will auto discover proxmox VMs/LXC. Discover Physical Network Assets, set rules, set discovery frequency, view virtual racks, view dependencies. Here are a few screenshots from beta version 9. It will be on my catalyst (github equivalent) soon.

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Hi everyone, Sam here. I just got into homelabbing. I want to up my skills in networking, docker and k8s. Currently in the planning phase and a low budget. Equipment: - 2 mini PCs - 2 external drives (plan to use as a nas, one for data and the other to all my backup) - A switch and some patch cables Still thinking of the setup at this point before I start