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My proud homelab/money pit (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This project would never end and I will never get to share it! So here we go 😉 I got three switches. Two from ubiquiti(aggregate & 500w POE 48port) and one 100g mikrotik switch. Running most of my servers on 25G and primary nas/server on 100G. I even ran a fiber to my desktop for that sweet 25G laser bits. I got 4 servers. All running V4 Xeon with different levels of horse power. Two dedicated Pfsense boxes on redundant configuration. I use Proxmox as my hypervisor, then I run truenas, k3s on top of it. All of this consumes about 700w. I know it's alot and main server consumes half of it. POE switch takes 100w. Other three servers and the pfsense only consumes 300w. My next project going to getting rid of the monster but I need ton of PCI and 12bays for drive 💸. Maybe I'll invest on solar instead 😅. Feel free to ask any questions.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Just saw your post on Lemmy as well

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How’s the Mikrotik 100G switch? It got an alright review from ServeTheHome from memory. Do you get anywhere near pushing that bandwidth or it’s more for fun? Which I totally get by the way… 😝

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I can saturate with iperf easily. Otherwise, 20G max in real life because of single thread performance issues

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Waiting for details on each U :D

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

They are all the same. Running K3s. Bottom 1u dedicated for pfsense. Server with 12 bays and 8 days running truenas within proxmox. They double their duty as a k3s node as well. One with 12 bays got 32 cores(64 logical), so it got some horsepower. Two truenas systems replicate with each other for extra redundancy, and one got 6x20tb, and the other got 12x10tb drives. I wish there is a way to cluster truenas systems. At least for NFS and ISCSI 😭

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is that a simplex keystone in port 2 on the second panel? Never seen anything like that before. If it is, is it preterm or how is the splice housed?

I could be completely wrong 😂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It's an LC to LC keystone. Behind the keystone, I have plugged into an outdoor rated pre made single mode fiber. That wraps around my house outside to my second floor. Why? I already had a bundle of wires going around the house, so I just made it worse by adding another 😁

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nice setup! I have that same gigabyte server. Mine has a datto d1541 board that I flashed back to asrock firmware. The server as a whole, I like. It's low power consumption but damn those fans scream.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yep, those datto are nice and cheap. I did the same, flashed asrock firmware, and I unplugged some fans in them. Never got too hot and very efficient!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

what devices are you running on your PoE switch? AP's and CCTV I assume?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

IP cams, I got three APs. One dedicated AP to connect to my dash cam, Raspberry PIs(octo print etc), Lora gateway, other small poe powered switches, and finally, google fiber media converter. I love POE because it makes things so much simpler and very reliable. The best part is I can put a UPS behind it and expect everything to run indefinitely!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I was considering getting U-NAS chassis for my home NAS setup. What config you're running with, are you happy with it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I have an old post on it https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeServer/s/gmqCltsetT

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I've got one box. Just one. It's built in a Node 804 case with 8 18TB hard drives, an HBA, an RTX 3080, and a Ryzen 3900XT with 64GB of RAM. I've sunk well over $2000 into this one box.

It runs my full media suite (Emby, the *arr suite of software, Jellyseerr for request intake and management) and a little left over for when I feel like spinning up a Minecraft server or something

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What's going on with that wall behind the rack? Is that mould?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

No, just concrete in the basement

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is it me or does the top stack look off by a notch or 2?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Top server is off by one. Done it to give some ventilation since as you can see I have more than enough space in my rack!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

S3P4 or S4P4 lol?