Setting up a new MikroTik CRS309 turned out to be a bit more complicated than anticipated.

This post outlines my process of setting up the switch. The screenshots show the newer gui as I’m reconstructing this process after setting everything up.

Login to Admin Gui

The MikroTik manual states you need to use a windows program called winbox but I found out, the switch has a web gui running on port 80, so thats what I used. The switch boots up with an ip of 192.168.88.1 and a netmask of 255.255.255.0 so you need to set some ip in the same subnet to access the web gui.

why

I wanted my new proxmox to have mirrored boot drives for redundancy resons. I used somewhat large drives, meaning to pass them trough to a TrueNAS instance

how

Basically just install debian on a mirrored root zfs and then put proxmox on top

• put 2 drives into the system
• follow the Root on ZFS Guide by OpenZFS and set the drives up as a mirror.
• follow the Install Proxmox VE on Debian Bookworm Guide by Proxmox. As new Debian versions are released, new guides will probably be published but the basics likely remain the same

This is not a review, just a quick teardown of the Uni-T UT61E. If you expected a review, check out the in-depth review by Martin Lorton on youtube:

• Part 1: First Look and Basic Functions
• Part 2: Look at PC data logging software, UltraDMM software, mains measurement and more
• Part 3: A look inside at input protection / build quality.Test battery consumption and low warning
• Part 4: Torture test to see temperature stability and calibration with DMMCheck

And to balance things out, also check out what Dave Jones of the EEVBlog has to say about the Uni-T UT71E and UT61E in general.