This method is absolutely not recommended for a container accessible with no restraints, as MongoDB 4.4 is very old and no longer contains any security updates. This is however sufficient for homelab requirements, especially as a failover node.

I faced an issue when originally trying to clone containers between proxmox nodes to add high availability to the omada controller (see Proxmox: install omada controller in high-availability). The target node would fail to start with an obscure error:

I have been using a lot of TP-Link products from the Omada series, and deployed the omada controller for centralization of the configuration (mostly for VLan configuration and wireless management). In some cases, I ended up having issues with the wifi roaming, or with the configuration because I was restarting the proxmox node on which the controller was running and no configuration could be provided.

With the upstream addition of HERM (Hardware Events Report Method ) patches¹ at the EDAC Kernel drivers, edac-utils became unsupported. A new toolset rasdaemon is since then available to replace it and allow collecting information about memory errors in userspace.

While tinkering with a VEP4600, I ended up loading BIOS defaults at multiple occasions, which caused some performance issues or feature regressions.

No Hyper-threading

Settings can be accessed through Socket Configuration > Processor Configuration > Hyper-Threading [ALL]

The SD-WAN VEP4600 (or edge 3400) appliance still has received some updates from Dell, mostly for stability. Most of the second-hand purchases were never updated and could benefit from a refresh.

Unlike the VEP1405 series that house an eMMC, on which diagOS can be installed, most of the updates here should be done from an installed OS or a boot disk.

With 6 Gigabit and 2 10G SFP interfaces available on the VEP1445 (and other VEP1400x or Edge 620-680 series), the default interface assignment of debian or proxmox is sometimes not the most convenient.

For reference the interfaces are assigned as follows on my latest Proxmox 9.0 installation

The Dell/VMware VEP1445 and in general the VEP1400-series are a nice set of low power machines driven by a Denverton CPU. They usually come in two flavors, either the Edge 600 series or VEP1400 series. Besides the outside look (white case or black case), they are fairly similar.

They all come with 2 SFP+ ports (limited to SFP on the low power VEP1405 / Edge 610) and 6 1G Ethernet ports, all supporting VirtIO, making them nice edge boxes for virtualization, although only low power applications are recommended due to the type of CPU.