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Share your homelab power usage and energy cost! mine is ~50W and less than $3 USD a month! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Currently drawing that daily… sometimes a lot more…

New to this homelab stuff, is there a way to make it quieter? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

What model is it? Ive got a few G5 and G6 chassis and ive gotten the G5's to quiet down really well and previously some g4 systems.

My Homelab in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

What are the specs of the gen8’s?

Overkill for starter build? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

$400 for that seems steep. Go look for an HP Z440 workstation as cheap as possible and upgrade it. A 12 core E5 v4 cpu is literally $5 and you should be able to pickup a chassis with cpu and like 8gb ram for ~$120. Then for $10 a stick but as many 16gb ddr4 ecc dimms as you want.

For $400 or less you could get 12 much faster newer cores, a basically silent workstation that idles under 100w and 192gb ddr4

Overkill for starter build? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I’d go with a v4 asap… literally just picked up a 12 core e5 2650 v4 for $4.80 shipped to my door

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Best HCI Storage OS (used for storage only) (alien.top)
 

I have a 4 netapp h300s nodes that I'm looking to re purpose into some lab storage or another HCI Cluster. Its an supermicro 24 bay 2u server with 4 X10 Nodes containing dual 8 core e5 2620 v4 cpus, 256gb ram, and 6x 480gb ssds with a pair of 25g nics (and some Radian 8GB PCIE Nonvolitile ramdisks that can acheive 1million IOPS each, but are only 8GB). I had it running my vSAN cluster, however I migrated that to other hardware for some more capacity, so this guy opens up for another HCI solution to test. I already have a Nutanix HCI cluster as well as Azure Stack, so Id rather not have another one of those, along with vSAN. Some options I was thinking of are:

Truenas SCALE

Beg Netapp for the installers to bring this guy back to a H300S in either a 2 or 4 node config

Windows S2D

Any other options I am missing? Id like to dabble with other enterprise HCI solutions, even if they are storage only solutions, and Ive got the big 3 covered already (VMWare, Nutanix, and Azure Stack)

What do you ask for from Santa? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My wife was asking me for ideas and I asked for 7000kwh to power my lab for the next year :D

Tesla K80 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Incorrect. Teslas require licensing for vGPU and certain compute modes / features. Even Quadro’s / RTX series cards require it for vGPU as well

Upgrade suggestions in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Pickup the cheapest HP Z440 you can find (~$120 for a barebones) grab a 12 core e5 2650 v4 for $5 and as many 16gb ddr4 ecc dimms as you wish for $12 each (all current eBay prices) it’ll idle under $100w running a few VM’s

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TrueNAS for Veeam Backup Repository (alien.top)
 

Hi All,

I'm working on building a dedicated appliance to use for Veeam backups in my lab. Ideally Veeam will run in a VM in my normal vSAN clsuter, so this server will only run storage for Veeam. I know ZFS isnt great for block storage for VM datastores, but it should be just fine for a Veeam repository. Is there any other OS's I should check out? Ive got a pair of 400GB Enterprise SAS SSD's that I was planning on using in either server for either an l2 arc or slog. Would either be benificial for just dumping backups? I can get Veeam to saturate a 10g nic easily, so looking for a little performance boost.

I'm planning on using either one of these two servers and having it scheduled to turn on overnight for a few hours to avoid wasting power 24/7 on spinning rust just to grab backups for 3 hours a day or so.

Server 1:

HP DL380 G9 SFF

1x Xeon E5 2650 v4 12 Core

12x 16gb = 192GB DDR4 ECC

22x 1.2TB SAS 10k Hard Drives

2x 400GB SAS SSD

128GB M.2 (boot)

dual intel 10g x540 Nic

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Server 2:

Dell R630 10 bay

Dual Xeon E5 2620 v4 8 core (16 total)

12x 16gb = 192GB DDR4 ECC

8x 1.2TB SAS 10k Hard Drives

2x 400GB SAS SSD

128GB M.2 (boot)

dual intel 10g x540 Nic

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I dont love the HP and have it kicking around without a use, however I figured since it has 24 bays it would make a decent archive / backup server, however its a bit louder and more power hungry than the dell (and ~8tb should be sufficient for what im backing up)

Any other OS's / backup solutions to consider? All of my servers run in Vm's on ESXI 8.0, and I have a Nutanix AOS lab as well, so thats the requirement for compatability (nutanix is just for testing, dont *need* backups, but it would be nice)

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