Homelab
I got my first computer when I was still in elementary school. I spent many hours on that machine and I have been hooked on computers since. Over the years, I’ve had some form of a homelab, even when I was floating in the middle of the ocean. It’s been as small as a single Intel based mini-PC to as large as seven Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers1. Below is the current revision of my homelab.
Servers
Virtualization (Production)
- Dell R720
- Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2 (2x)
- 256gb DDR-3 ECC (1866mhz; 8x32GB)
- Nvidia P40
- Dell dual 10G/1G NIC
- Connect-X 3 40G NIC
- 10x HDD, 2x SDD, 1x NVME (21TB total)
- Dell R720
Virtualization (Development)
- Apple Mac Mini Server (2012; 6,2)
- Intel Core i7-3615QM
- 16gb DDR-3 (1600mhz; 2x8GB)
- 2x HDD (1.5TB total)
- Lenovo ThinkCentre M710S
- Intel Core i5-7400
- 16gb DDR-4 (3200mhz; 2x8GB)
- 1 HDD, 1 SSD, 1 NVME (4TB total)
- Apple Mac Mini Server (2012; 6,2)
Network Storage
Network Infrastructure
Router
- Dell R210ii
- Intel Xeon E3-1220
- 8gb DDR-3 ECC (2x4GB)
- 2 HDD 3 (Striped Mirror Raid; ~600GB)
- Connect-X 2 Dual 10G NIC
- Dell R210ii
Core Switch
Edge Switch
Wireless
Software
- Virtualization Servers: VMWare ESXi
- Network Storage:
TrueNAS Core
- Minio jail
- Router: pfSense Plus
- VMs:
- Nextcloud: Cloud storage for family 4
- Bookstack/ Homebridge: Home wiki and automation 5
- Development Web-server (Ubuntu/nginx)
- Windows 10 (3x) (Cloud gaming, dev testing)
- Windows XP (dev testing; no net access)
- Photon OS (for Docker containers)
- TubeArchivist (Photon OS) 4
- VMWare vSphere Server Appliance 8.0
- PufferPanel (for game server hosting)
- Docker Containers:
- MariaDB: For development use.
- Microsoft SQL Server 2019: For development use.
- PaperlessNGX Stack: I save copies of paper things.
- redis, postgres, gotenberg, and tika
These all came with a 48U rack that I got around 2014. The rack is all I really wanted. I did run a couple of these for a while, and even booted them all up at the same time every so often. They quickly got replaced when I realized how expensive they are to run. ↩︎
This is a mix of 8, 10, and 12TB drives. ↩︎
June 24 2023: These drives are due for replacement, as they have over 105,000 power-on hours each (~12 years). I’m kind of wanting to see how long they’ll last. ↩︎
I am thinking about moving these to Docker containers. ↩︎ ↩︎
I tried these in Docker containers and had nothing but headaches. They’ve both been running on this VM for about 5 years now without an issue. ↩︎
[This page was last updated on June 24, 2023.]