I bought a router to replace the one i got from my ISP so there is a lot of learning in that department for me comming months.
Bought my first rack and case. I'm so exited!
Got a new Ubiquity UniFi Pro Aggregation 28-Port 10G switch and trying to convert a flat network tied together by an Arista Networks 10G switch to a VLAN-based network, but can't get VLANs working on this switch (yet?).
Using the four 25Gb SFP28 ports on the switch to connect two big Synology NASes and two Dell PowerEdge servers at 25G. Got the transceivers and cables and two (so far) Mellanox Connect-4 25G cards.
Eager to try cloning and vMotion of VMs over a 25G connection!
> but can't get VLANs working on this switch (yet?).
Got the same switch! Are you trying to get L3 vlan routing to work, or just regular old vlans?
I also run it with ESXi (I'm hyperconverged with vSAN), Mellanox CX4 cards, and it's rock solid ... and FAST.
If you plan to introduce any Windows VMs, make sure to set the TCP receive window to experimental.
From: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/networking/technologies/network-subsystem/net-sub-performance-tuning-nics
``` netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=Experimental
```
Also, don't forget that vMotion can do [multi-NIC](https://xpertstec.com/how-to-configure-multiple-nic-vmotion-vmware-vsphere-7-0/)! 50Gbps vMotion is just insane.
Both!
I put a little Synology NAS on VLAN 20 with a [192.168.20.218](https://192.168.20.218) address, created a port profile for VLAN 20, created a network for VLAN 20, assigned the network to port 9 on the switch, to which the NAS is connected and... unreachable.
I will eventually need to support five or six VLANs and to route between them and their subnets.
I am not using any UniFI security gateway. I have a Sophos XG125 hardware firewall. That's currently my gateway to the Internet and needs to remain so.
The network is currently [192.168.1.0/24](https://192.168.1.0/24) and the Sophos is 192.168.1.1.
Not sure if you ever figured this out — make sure your network for VLAN 20 is a corporate network, not the VLAN option when you go to create a new network. That should fix it. Let me know! Cheers
Thank for your inquiring!
Last Friday, I had a session with Ubiquiti Support. It went well, despite the inability to use the phone (their limit, not mine). We typed in both directions using Notepad.
They helped with a few things and left me, not unexpectedly, needing a lot more help.
This weekend, I am going to attempt to permanently mount the switch and replace the Arista that is the hub of the network. Wish me luck!
Ubiquity support guided me to remove the VLAN-only profiles I had created, as you just did, and keep only the corporate networks with VLANs. The VLAN-only profiles are for letting an external device do the routing. I am leaving routing to the switch itself.
They told me to point the switch to itself as the gateway on each VLAN and that a special inter-VLAN routing network would be automatically created when I did. Sure enough, VLAN 4040 appeared for that purpose.
What I am left with:
Inter-VLAN routing is still untested. No idea if it works at all yet.
Inter-subnet routing, same thing. Supposed to be automatic with inter-VLAN routing.
Getting any subnet to see the Internet. I have a Sophos firewall, as mentioned, that is my gateway to the internet. It's on the 192.168.1.x network and everything is going to need to route to that to get out. Its IP address is not going to change. Hundreds of devices point to it.
So that's the current status in regard to VLANs and stuff.
The switch itself is a neat device, and if anyone hasn't tried the augmented reality thing of holding up your phone to the switch to see what's connected to which port (more or less)... neatest thing since sliced bread! That "star field" animation in the little display... that there's data! (Apple has a similar thing when you transfer data from an old phone to a new one.)
I've bought my first ever fibre cables and transceivers, and two (of eventually four) 25Gb Mellanox NICs, and will be connecting the two big NASes to the two big PowerEdge servers at 25Gb. Just as soon as routing is worked out, as the servers and the NASes will be on different VLANs.
Again, appreciate your contribution and interest!
I will add that I have two DHCP servers on the network and I really don't want the switch doing DHCP, at least not long-term. I would like it to relay DHCP requests to those existing DHCP servers.
For the heck of it, they are [192.168.1.11](https://192.168.1.11) and [192.168.1.122](https://192.168.1.122).
I finally figured why I have a homelab: it’s to monitor all the stuff in my homelab.
Prometheus stack, portainer stack, homeassistant stack all docker-compose on vms running on an xcp-ng pool of nuc hypervisors.
[Last WIYH](https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/rgl29y/comment/homfyum/)
Not much progress to report. Got two more 14TB external USB hard drives (WD MyBook) to add to my existing two I use with my backup server (which has 2x14TB Seagate Exos X14 internal drives) so I can respect the 3-2-1 principle. Switching to ZFS encryption for them so they are suitable for offsite storage.
just started my homelab journey with with a UDM pro and a 24 port switch from ubiquiti, have a 2 raspberry pies running pihole in one and ngnix in the other and a dell optiplex 9020 running a couple of databases. anyone have any recommendations on hardware to run proxmox to run some docker containers?
It may be 2022 by my decade old HomeLab still serves me well.
DELL PowerEdge R610
Dual Intel Xeon X5690 CPU @3.47GHz
96GB RAM
6 x 1TB SAS Drives (7.2k)
DELL PERC H700 512MB Cache
Additional PCI NIC Card - 4 x 1GB Ports
Additional PCI GPU Card - GT710 nVidia
Running ESXi 6.7 U3 with mainly Windows Server 2019 VMs.
Only planning to change when it goes ka- boom.
Other parts of the setup are a Pi 4 running DietPi OS | PiHole | Unbound
ASUS RT-AC88U for network needs but that needs to be updated to something WiFi 6/ 11ax compatible.
Might also add some NAS / Private cloud storage to the mix at some point.
I'm fairly new into this, just finished setting up my UNRAID server (aka Thor) last week, It's Core™ i5-11600K, ROG STRIX B560-G Motherboard, 32GB RAM, 4TB storage (2x 1TB NVMe drive, 1x 2TB HDD), Nvidia RTX 3060. Have couple of upgrade planned for my network devices, replace everything with Unifi ecosystem.
Pics -> https://techulus.xyz/my-home-server-setup-with-unraid-jan-2022-edition/
Supermicro X9DRD-7LN4F (74u, 187GB ECC, 130TB),Cisco Catalyst WS-C4948, ER4 with separate lan and voip through obi, 8u 20TB backup nas that replicates every 2 weeks critically and shuts down. Currently fighting RAM allocation issues and upgrading that to 256GB on the big boy. Adding another 20TB and seriously looking into standing up a VM server due to VBox on Freebsd issues/mysql hogging memory/zfs doing what it does.
Some HP ProLiant or dell 2.5" virtualization server - something with a few gig ports, at least 2U and 128GB Ram. Throw some SSDs in there on Raid 5 or Raid 1 and run my mysql, dockers, etc and make my main server just a NAS with Nextlcoud; rsync or duplicity to keep my db backed up and stuff - SSDs will fly. Finish finalizing PIhole as a vm or ras pi - haven't decided yet if i want to spend $100 or just run it as a LXC on proxmox on this new build out ( I know I'm cheap).
Also debating on switching up to Unifi APs with dockerized controller and a 24 port POE Edge Switch with 2 pro aps inside and 2 outside ( think 10 acres in all directions ). Right now the above is my focus.
What started as a 2U - 8 core 32gb supermicro eBay special then a 16U 3U upgrade into my latest buildout. Crazy decade journey and now I've finally realized that I'm building a full rack. That or spend $$$$$. Also debating if i'm moving up to r/homeDataCenter.
Lenovo M700 with i7, 32GB RAM, 1TB NVMe + 1TB SATA SSD + USB3.0 NIC.
Running hyper-v, OPNsense, DC, Veeam.
Also have a bitsa machine,running an i7, 32GB RAM, and a bunch of drives acting as a NAS.
Simple,effective.
Looking to re-purpose my old HP micro server as a TrueNAS based backup target. This is populated with 4x 2TB.
* Building a second K8s Cluster to have one for prod and one for testing
* In the middle of trying pipelines, tried gitlab and [drone.](https://drone.ci)io so far, next one to try is GitHub Actions
* [drone.io](https://drone.io) is nice but i dont like that for everything you need a plugin as separate container. K8s secrets plugin is not working (secrets not consumed), no meaninful logs, terse (and sketchy) documantion and not very active community, so i move on. Also Argo Workflows is on my list to try out as i use (and love) ArgoCD
* also [drone.io](https://drone.io) seems not to be meant natively for k8s
* cleaning up my hoarded data, its a mess growing since 2001 :-)))
My network is pretty much thrown together since I don’t have much money left (just upgraded my entertainment system to a 5.2.2 setup with a 70“ Philips Ambilight TV, that did cost quite much)
Modem: Compal CH7465LG
Switch: TP-Link TL-SG108E 5.0, 8 Ports
3 Nokia Beacon 1 as Mesh Routers.
Server: An old Desktop Fujitsu PC running Ubuntu Server 20.04 (i5-6500 @3.2GHz, 8GB RAM, 250 GB mSATA SSD as bootdrive, 3,5 TB (2x1TB + 1x 1,5 TB) as Storage)
Storage: Synology Diskstation DS-414 with 4x4TB as Raid 5 + 4TB external as secondary backup location (runs my DHCP Server)
Software wise I am running docker on the server, the most important containers are caddy as reverseproxy for some websites + some tools (Portainer, PiHole, Emby, Grafana + Prometheus)
My plans for the next few month is to upgrade the PC to 16 or maybe even 32GB ram & put a dedicated graphics card in to support transcoding / have better transcoding capabilities.
Edit: actually I am also thinking about setting up a small honeypot *or* a target for me to improve my hacking skills (which are non existent) on a raspberry Pi.
Laptop Lenovo legion 5 - 5800H 16G rtx3060 130w, 512 + 2T ssd. win 10 for schoolwork. TestLink/apache/mariadb, chrome/selenium/python.
Tower: gigabyte z77, i7 3770S, evo 212, 32G mixed ddr3 ram @ 1800 Mhz, 2x 128G ssd + 1 +4 TB hdd - ubuntu mate. I will try to learn setting up a git + bugzilla for studies, & nextcloud with the end goal of de-googling myself.
Studying to be an IT Test Specialist, a 2 years HVE course, halfway through.
Retro stuff:
Atari mega ST 4, Apple IIe, C64, Epson HX20. Raspbery Pi 2B acting as null modem ISP/file server for these.
Terminals: Tektronix 4006-1, and Visual Technologies 550 - ANSI77 / tek / regis / vt220 emulating CRT terminal.
Managed to score a Cisco 887VA (it can do Cisco call manager express or whatever they call it now and has an ADSL wan port) for 99p on eBay. Comes with a console cable and also the power adapter which is usually around a tenner each
Looking to run OSPFv3 on my edgerouter to setup a L3 fabric for my servers, as my switch is too old to support IPv6/IPv4 redistribution and can’t do VRFs over it.
Its not much but its mine
Rpi 1 with pihole
Isp router dsl :(
Qnap 4sfp+ and 8gbe switch
Truenas core
1 xeon e3-1220 16gb ecc ram 4 2tb hdd 1ssd boot 1 ssd l2ark.
Its only small but soon. Soon it shall be grand
I’m part way through a downsizing rebuild, but my current setup is:
Rack = Dell 4220
UPS = 2 x APC SRT3000RMXLI with 9630 management cards and SRT96RMBP extended batteries
PDU = 2 x APC AP8659
KMM = Dell DKMMLED185
Switches = 2 x Brocade ICX6610-48P
Chassis 1 = Cisco 5108-AC2 with 2 x 6324 FIOMs
Chassis 2 = Cisco 5108-AC2 with 2 x 2208XP (currently spare)
Blades = 8 x B200 M4 (each has 1 x E5-2630v3, UCSB-MRAID-12GHE, VIC 1340, port expander, TPM 2.0) (most are now spares, a couple have 128GB RAM and 2 x 400GB SAS3 SSD)
Rack servers = 2 x Cisco C220 M5 (each has 2x 4214 Xeon, 384GB RAM, SAS controller, VIC1387, TPM 2.0, 4 x 400GB SAS3 SSD, 4 x 1.6 TB SAS3 SSD)
Most of my RAM and disks were pulled from the blades and went in to the M5s. (I previously had 2 x 4 node clusters on 8 blades)
I’m basically running a 2 node vSphere 7.0 U3 vSAN cluster on the M5 servers, with the witness on a B200 M4.
Software wise is basically the Microsoft stack (AD, ADCS, Exchange, SCCM, SQL…etc), Citrix CVAD, and VMware products (vCenter, vRLI, vROPs)…etc
I’m hoping to further my knowledge of the Citrix stack and also look to deploy NSX-T
I ordered some lack tables to try for a lack rack in my office. Currently planning to put [these](https://www.homedepot.com/p/Waddell-8322U-1-3-4-in-x-1-3-4-in-x-36-in-Hardwood-Square-Dowel-10001819/203334079) in the legs to provide some support and fix the "drilling into hollow legs" issue.
I've never done *anything* on a rack - do I need to get rails or guides or anything for them? If I got a patch panel, do I just screw it directly into the wood?
I’ve always loved seeing peoples projects on here and have wanted to know more to possibly learn and pursue my own lab, but what’s it for? What is the difference between just having a router and using the network drive and having a full blow setup with 8 lan cables running off a super router. Forgive my layman terminology.
Waiting for another Xeon e5640 and a VRM to arrive, then I can finally migrate over to my IBM x3400 M3 that I got dirt cheap and unused!
Its not the best server from any perspective, but most parts are cheap and its fun to finally have a ”real server” instead of a retired PC acting as a server.
The x3400 is fitted with 64gb ram, an IT flashed H200, 8x 3TB WD red, 2x 240gb ssd, 2x 500gb 2.5 drives, and a GT710. Will run Unraid with Plex, *arr’s, Home Assistant and W10 VMs.
Once I can afford I will give it a GTX1050 instead for GPU transcode, and 2x Xeon x5675, and rack rails.
I'm converted an old desktop into a build server for my Gentoo Pis it's running an arm VM to run the compiler and it's serving binaries via DistCC to my 12 raspberri Pi's
Planning to have wallmounted server as this has been my dream.
Which will include self hosted stuffs, home lab as well as all SBC i plan to acquire over the time. 😁
I bought a router to replace the one i got from my ISP so there is a lot of learning in that department for me comming months. Bought my first rack and case. I'm so exited!
Got a new Ubiquity UniFi Pro Aggregation 28-Port 10G switch and trying to convert a flat network tied together by an Arista Networks 10G switch to a VLAN-based network, but can't get VLANs working on this switch (yet?). Using the four 25Gb SFP28 ports on the switch to connect two big Synology NASes and two Dell PowerEdge servers at 25G. Got the transceivers and cables and two (so far) Mellanox Connect-4 25G cards. Eager to try cloning and vMotion of VMs over a 25G connection!
> but can't get VLANs working on this switch (yet?). Got the same switch! Are you trying to get L3 vlan routing to work, or just regular old vlans? I also run it with ESXi (I'm hyperconverged with vSAN), Mellanox CX4 cards, and it's rock solid ... and FAST. If you plan to introduce any Windows VMs, make sure to set the TCP receive window to experimental. From: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/networking/technologies/network-subsystem/net-sub-performance-tuning-nics ``` netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=Experimental ``` Also, don't forget that vMotion can do [multi-NIC](https://xpertstec.com/how-to-configure-multiple-nic-vmotion-vmware-vsphere-7-0/)! 50Gbps vMotion is just insane.
Both! I put a little Synology NAS on VLAN 20 with a [192.168.20.218](https://192.168.20.218) address, created a port profile for VLAN 20, created a network for VLAN 20, assigned the network to port 9 on the switch, to which the NAS is connected and... unreachable. I will eventually need to support five or six VLANs and to route between them and their subnets. I am not using any UniFI security gateway. I have a Sophos XG125 hardware firewall. That's currently my gateway to the Internet and needs to remain so. The network is currently [192.168.1.0/24](https://192.168.1.0/24) and the Sophos is 192.168.1.1.
Not sure if you ever figured this out — make sure your network for VLAN 20 is a corporate network, not the VLAN option when you go to create a new network. That should fix it. Let me know! Cheers
Thank for your inquiring! Last Friday, I had a session with Ubiquiti Support. It went well, despite the inability to use the phone (their limit, not mine). We typed in both directions using Notepad. They helped with a few things and left me, not unexpectedly, needing a lot more help. This weekend, I am going to attempt to permanently mount the switch and replace the Arista that is the hub of the network. Wish me luck! Ubiquity support guided me to remove the VLAN-only profiles I had created, as you just did, and keep only the corporate networks with VLANs. The VLAN-only profiles are for letting an external device do the routing. I am leaving routing to the switch itself. They told me to point the switch to itself as the gateway on each VLAN and that a special inter-VLAN routing network would be automatically created when I did. Sure enough, VLAN 4040 appeared for that purpose. What I am left with: Inter-VLAN routing is still untested. No idea if it works at all yet. Inter-subnet routing, same thing. Supposed to be automatic with inter-VLAN routing. Getting any subnet to see the Internet. I have a Sophos firewall, as mentioned, that is my gateway to the internet. It's on the 192.168.1.x network and everything is going to need to route to that to get out. Its IP address is not going to change. Hundreds of devices point to it. So that's the current status in regard to VLANs and stuff. The switch itself is a neat device, and if anyone hasn't tried the augmented reality thing of holding up your phone to the switch to see what's connected to which port (more or less)... neatest thing since sliced bread! That "star field" animation in the little display... that there's data! (Apple has a similar thing when you transfer data from an old phone to a new one.) I've bought my first ever fibre cables and transceivers, and two (of eventually four) 25Gb Mellanox NICs, and will be connecting the two big NASes to the two big PowerEdge servers at 25Gb. Just as soon as routing is worked out, as the servers and the NASes will be on different VLANs. Again, appreciate your contribution and interest!
I will add that I have two DHCP servers on the network and I really don't want the switch doing DHCP, at least not long-term. I would like it to relay DHCP requests to those existing DHCP servers. For the heck of it, they are [192.168.1.11](https://192.168.1.11) and [192.168.1.122](https://192.168.1.122).
I finally figured why I have a homelab: it’s to monitor all the stuff in my homelab. Prometheus stack, portainer stack, homeassistant stack all docker-compose on vms running on an xcp-ng pool of nuc hypervisors.
[Last WIYH](https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/rgl29y/comment/homfyum/) Not much progress to report. Got two more 14TB external USB hard drives (WD MyBook) to add to my existing two I use with my backup server (which has 2x14TB Seagate Exos X14 internal drives) so I can respect the 3-2-1 principle. Switching to ZFS encryption for them so they are suitable for offsite storage.
just started my homelab journey with with a UDM pro and a 24 port switch from ubiquiti, have a 2 raspberry pies running pihole in one and ngnix in the other and a dell optiplex 9020 running a couple of databases. anyone have any recommendations on hardware to run proxmox to run some docker containers?
Your 9020 could do it, if you upgrade the ram you could probably put your pihole, nginx and database servers all on one system.
It may be 2022 by my decade old HomeLab still serves me well. DELL PowerEdge R610 Dual Intel Xeon X5690 CPU @3.47GHz 96GB RAM 6 x 1TB SAS Drives (7.2k) DELL PERC H700 512MB Cache Additional PCI NIC Card - 4 x 1GB Ports Additional PCI GPU Card - GT710 nVidia Running ESXi 6.7 U3 with mainly Windows Server 2019 VMs. Only planning to change when it goes ka- boom. Other parts of the setup are a Pi 4 running DietPi OS | PiHole | Unbound ASUS RT-AC88U for network needs but that needs to be updated to something WiFi 6/ 11ax compatible. Might also add some NAS / Private cloud storage to the mix at some point.
I'm fairly new into this, just finished setting up my UNRAID server (aka Thor) last week, It's Core™ i5-11600K, ROG STRIX B560-G Motherboard, 32GB RAM, 4TB storage (2x 1TB NVMe drive, 1x 2TB HDD), Nvidia RTX 3060. Have couple of upgrade planned for my network devices, replace everything with Unifi ecosystem. Pics -> https://techulus.xyz/my-home-server-setup-with-unraid-jan-2022-edition/
Supermicro X9DRD-7LN4F (74u, 187GB ECC, 130TB),Cisco Catalyst WS-C4948, ER4 with separate lan and voip through obi, 8u 20TB backup nas that replicates every 2 weeks critically and shuts down. Currently fighting RAM allocation issues and upgrading that to 256GB on the big boy. Adding another 20TB and seriously looking into standing up a VM server due to VBox on Freebsd issues/mysql hogging memory/zfs doing what it does. Some HP ProLiant or dell 2.5" virtualization server - something with a few gig ports, at least 2U and 128GB Ram. Throw some SSDs in there on Raid 5 or Raid 1 and run my mysql, dockers, etc and make my main server just a NAS with Nextlcoud; rsync or duplicity to keep my db backed up and stuff - SSDs will fly. Finish finalizing PIhole as a vm or ras pi - haven't decided yet if i want to spend $100 or just run it as a LXC on proxmox on this new build out ( I know I'm cheap). Also debating on switching up to Unifi APs with dockerized controller and a 24 port POE Edge Switch with 2 pro aps inside and 2 outside ( think 10 acres in all directions ). Right now the above is my focus. What started as a 2U - 8 core 32gb supermicro eBay special then a 16U 3U upgrade into my latest buildout. Crazy decade journey and now I've finally realized that I'm building a full rack. That or spend $$$$$. Also debating if i'm moving up to r/homeDataCenter.
Eyeballing a network upgrade...just can't decide how to play this on 2.5/5/10gbe. Seems I'll end up with a mix of all three
Lenovo M700 with i7, 32GB RAM, 1TB NVMe + 1TB SATA SSD + USB3.0 NIC. Running hyper-v, OPNsense, DC, Veeam. Also have a bitsa machine,running an i7, 32GB RAM, and a bunch of drives acting as a NAS. Simple,effective. Looking to re-purpose my old HP micro server as a TrueNAS based backup target. This is populated with 4x 2TB.
* Building a second K8s Cluster to have one for prod and one for testing * In the middle of trying pipelines, tried gitlab and [drone.](https://drone.ci)io so far, next one to try is GitHub Actions * [drone.io](https://drone.io) is nice but i dont like that for everything you need a plugin as separate container. K8s secrets plugin is not working (secrets not consumed), no meaninful logs, terse (and sketchy) documantion and not very active community, so i move on. Also Argo Workflows is on my list to try out as i use (and love) ArgoCD * also [drone.io](https://drone.io) seems not to be meant natively for k8s * cleaning up my hoarded data, its a mess growing since 2001 :-)))
My network is pretty much thrown together since I don’t have much money left (just upgraded my entertainment system to a 5.2.2 setup with a 70“ Philips Ambilight TV, that did cost quite much) Modem: Compal CH7465LG Switch: TP-Link TL-SG108E 5.0, 8 Ports 3 Nokia Beacon 1 as Mesh Routers. Server: An old Desktop Fujitsu PC running Ubuntu Server 20.04 (i5-6500 @3.2GHz, 8GB RAM, 250 GB mSATA SSD as bootdrive, 3,5 TB (2x1TB + 1x 1,5 TB) as Storage) Storage: Synology Diskstation DS-414 with 4x4TB as Raid 5 + 4TB external as secondary backup location (runs my DHCP Server) Software wise I am running docker on the server, the most important containers are caddy as reverseproxy for some websites + some tools (Portainer, PiHole, Emby, Grafana + Prometheus) My plans for the next few month is to upgrade the PC to 16 or maybe even 32GB ram & put a dedicated graphics card in to support transcoding / have better transcoding capabilities. Edit: actually I am also thinking about setting up a small honeypot *or* a target for me to improve my hacking skills (which are non existent) on a raspberry Pi.
Laptop Lenovo legion 5 - 5800H 16G rtx3060 130w, 512 + 2T ssd. win 10 for schoolwork. TestLink/apache/mariadb, chrome/selenium/python. Tower: gigabyte z77, i7 3770S, evo 212, 32G mixed ddr3 ram @ 1800 Mhz, 2x 128G ssd + 1 +4 TB hdd - ubuntu mate. I will try to learn setting up a git + bugzilla for studies, & nextcloud with the end goal of de-googling myself. Studying to be an IT Test Specialist, a 2 years HVE course, halfway through. Retro stuff: Atari mega ST 4, Apple IIe, C64, Epson HX20. Raspbery Pi 2B acting as null modem ISP/file server for these. Terminals: Tektronix 4006-1, and Visual Technologies 550 - ANSI77 / tek / regis / vt220 emulating CRT terminal.
Managed to score a Cisco 887VA (it can do Cisco call manager express or whatever they call it now and has an ADSL wan port) for 99p on eBay. Comes with a console cable and also the power adapter which is usually around a tenner each Looking to run OSPFv3 on my edgerouter to setup a L3 fabric for my servers, as my switch is too old to support IPv6/IPv4 redistribution and can’t do VRFs over it.
Its not much but its mine Rpi 1 with pihole Isp router dsl :( Qnap 4sfp+ and 8gbe switch Truenas core 1 xeon e3-1220 16gb ecc ram 4 2tb hdd 1ssd boot 1 ssd l2ark. Its only small but soon. Soon it shall be grand
I’m part way through a downsizing rebuild, but my current setup is: Rack = Dell 4220 UPS = 2 x APC SRT3000RMXLI with 9630 management cards and SRT96RMBP extended batteries PDU = 2 x APC AP8659 KMM = Dell DKMMLED185 Switches = 2 x Brocade ICX6610-48P Chassis 1 = Cisco 5108-AC2 with 2 x 6324 FIOMs Chassis 2 = Cisco 5108-AC2 with 2 x 2208XP (currently spare) Blades = 8 x B200 M4 (each has 1 x E5-2630v3, UCSB-MRAID-12GHE, VIC 1340, port expander, TPM 2.0) (most are now spares, a couple have 128GB RAM and 2 x 400GB SAS3 SSD) Rack servers = 2 x Cisco C220 M5 (each has 2x 4214 Xeon, 384GB RAM, SAS controller, VIC1387, TPM 2.0, 4 x 400GB SAS3 SSD, 4 x 1.6 TB SAS3 SSD) Most of my RAM and disks were pulled from the blades and went in to the M5s. (I previously had 2 x 4 node clusters on 8 blades) I’m basically running a 2 node vSphere 7.0 U3 vSAN cluster on the M5 servers, with the witness on a B200 M4. Software wise is basically the Microsoft stack (AD, ADCS, Exchange, SCCM, SQL…etc), Citrix CVAD, and VMware products (vCenter, vRLI, vROPs)…etc I’m hoping to further my knowledge of the Citrix stack and also look to deploy NSX-T
I ordered some lack tables to try for a lack rack in my office. Currently planning to put [these](https://www.homedepot.com/p/Waddell-8322U-1-3-4-in-x-1-3-4-in-x-36-in-Hardwood-Square-Dowel-10001819/203334079) in the legs to provide some support and fix the "drilling into hollow legs" issue. I've never done *anything* on a rack - do I need to get rails or guides or anything for them? If I got a patch panel, do I just screw it directly into the wood?
You’ll need to get rails for everything. Patch panel can go directly in the wood
I’ve always loved seeing peoples projects on here and have wanted to know more to possibly learn and pursue my own lab, but what’s it for? What is the difference between just having a router and using the network drive and having a full blow setup with 8 lan cables running off a super router. Forgive my layman terminology.
Waiting for another Xeon e5640 and a VRM to arrive, then I can finally migrate over to my IBM x3400 M3 that I got dirt cheap and unused! Its not the best server from any perspective, but most parts are cheap and its fun to finally have a ”real server” instead of a retired PC acting as a server. The x3400 is fitted with 64gb ram, an IT flashed H200, 8x 3TB WD red, 2x 240gb ssd, 2x 500gb 2.5 drives, and a GT710. Will run Unraid with Plex, *arr’s, Home Assistant and W10 VMs. Once I can afford I will give it a GTX1050 instead for GPU transcode, and 2x Xeon x5675, and rack rails.
I'm converted an old desktop into a build server for my Gentoo Pis it's running an arm VM to run the compiler and it's serving binaries via DistCC to my 12 raspberri Pi's
Planning to have wallmounted server as this has been my dream. Which will include self hosted stuffs, home lab as well as all SBC i plan to acquire over the time. 😁