Green/energy improvements - servers

[poweredgenl]

having a 24/7 setup running in full fledge with all the goodies is nice, however i think its good to improve energy efficiency everywhere thru the smarthome.

Below my backlog of items

• Finding a way to remote shutdown PoE power (without too much hassle)
• Shutdown homescreen/dashboard Raspberry PI during the night + startup in morning routine
• Shutdown backup server after successfull backup completion
• Shutdown secondary vmware esx host during fewer usage.
• Start VEEAM backup environment only when needed.

[poweredgenl]

remote POE command thru telnet shuts down the port and powers off the devices. Next step: integrate in script (telnet snmp etc).

[poweredgenl]

just finished setting up this green components.

• Servers are powered off via SSH commands in Node-Red
• After X timeout the POE powered devices are poweredoff via a snmpset on the respective switch.

The flow is combined with Alexa in the routines. So:

Alexa, good morning, starts the home screen (interface/touchscreen), and shutsdown the backup server
Alexa, good night (or time == 0:45), starts the backup server / shuts down the home screen.

Also using a smaller harddrive for backups helps in energy efficiency. Only starting when needed.

[poweredgenl]

Veeam backup start: still figuring out how i can control vmware virtual machines via home assistant, so that the vm is only started at the moment i need it.

[poweredgenl]

update: monitoring on Librenms was going crazy while leaving a stale mount on Synology for the PI with the backup data (to sync). Removing the mount and doing a 1way rsync from PI to Synology solves the issue.