So once the server failed to boot, I lost access to everything that I had stored on that box. Classic case of keeping all of my eggs in one basket. No one to blame but myself.
Thankfully, I was able to pivot to using the local telco’s “Residential Gateway” as my DHCP Server, and had the network back up and working again within 30 minutes. Obviously, no access to our personal shares on the NAS, no blocking of Ads via PiHole, and worse, now our personal data gathered by the local telco on our usage and DNS
I’ve been giving it a lot of thought since the SSD in the server went kaput last month, and decided that I was going to approach this build a little differently. Not much mind you, but enough to hopefully keep this kind of a problem from happing to me again. I’m not going to deal with the whole IOMMU config at this time (I’ll expound on that in another post), and a few other minor changes. I’ve already installed the base Proxmox OS (using EXT4 FilesSystem of course!), and will be starting to install pfSense and PiHole with it’s “Recursive DNS” option in the next day or so.
Going to spend the next few weeks fine-tuning things…