DB Tech's Featured Homelabs From Ep. 2 - Starforce9
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From Starforce9:
Starting from the top:
Unused 4u server with a Rosewill chassis that was a cloud gaming system using parsec/steam streaming/moonlight, but that has been moved to a new system currently.
Dell R210 II Pfsense router/firewall handling openvpn, and primary DNS functions. This lab network is separate from my main household network, and this pfsense router is the entryway into the lab.
Currently unused HP disk shelf connected to the supermicro server below it.
Supermicro server: TrueNAS Core 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 128GB ECC DDR3 3x 10TB WD Gold HDD for Plex primary media storage (ZFS RaidZ1) 3x 1TB SK Hynix SSD for VM storage (ZFS RaidZ1) 3x 8TB WD Red HDD for VM backups and other PC backups (ZFS RaidZ1) 1x 120GB Intel SSD boot drive (old)
Custom 4U server, was my first proxmox host: Rosewill Chassis Intel Xeon 1230 v2 32GB DDR3 ECC 2x ADATA 120GB SATA SSDs for boot (RAID 1)
These next two are identical: Dell R630 1U Proxmox hosts 64GB DDR4 ECC 2x Intel Xeon 2643 v3 CPUs 2x ADATA 120GB SATA SSDs for boot (RAID 1)
10gbps network switch MikroTik CRS317-1G-16S+RM The 3 proxmox hosts and TrueNAS servers are connected through here
1gbps network switch Cisco-SG-300-20 Handling IPMI/iDRAC/Proxmox management ports, and other low bandwidth services
Tripp Lite 1500VA UPS
Server rack is a 25U Rosewill
For running public things, like this site, I have a cheap dedicated Proxmox host in a datacenter: 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v2 64GB DDR3 ECC 500GB SATA SSD $33/month
Software
Proxmox VMs:
All VMs are generally running Ubuntu 20.04 or Windows Server 2022. A couple Windows 11 VMs for testing, and opnsense allowing for DNS resolution of lab services on the main network.
I chose to go with VMs over Proxmox LXC containers here because I wanted high availability support with live migration. /=========================================/
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