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[Arceles]

I want a floating thing to help me write as well.

[forster]

Switched out the big 1G switch for a POE, and added the old Antec case as a backup. These are both Ryzen systems and it’s working well. The mini HP is an Ubuntu Server install with a Palworld server on it. The big HP is Proxmox and the server at the bottom is TrueNAS Scale. The backup system is running Scale also. 

[Y2KUK]

My home server room with rack:

From top down@

Fiber tray

Cisco ASA 5555-x

cisco dual 3850X 48p poe+ switches with 8 10gb uplinks to main home and servers below

3x DL380 G9 svrs 512gb ram, dual E5-2690 v4, 4x 8gb FC for EMC SAN, 4 x 10GB for server access per server- Running ESXi 8.

FC switches

EMC VNX 5200 SAN array 74TB - SAS, SSD and SAS-NL

3x APC UPS 3000

 

 

 

[Dan~]

On 18/02/2024 at 16:47, Y2KUK said:

My home server room with rack:

From top down@

Fiber tray

Cisco ASA 5555-x

cisco dual 3850X 48p poe+ switches with 8 10gb uplinks to main home and servers below

3x DL380 G9 svrs 512gb ram, dual E5-2690 v4, 4x 8gb FC for EMC SAN, 4 x 10GB for server access per server- Running ESXi 8.

FC switches

EMC VNX 5200 SAN array 74TB - SAS, SSD and SAS-NL

3x APC UPS 3000

 

 

 

I have to ask, why do you need all that?

I use to do things similar and after a while, I was like I don’t really need all this stuff anymore as I started to do IT for a living, and promptly hated doing anything after work

[notta]

On 18/02/2024 at 16:32, Dan~ said:

I have to ask, why do you need all that?

I use to do things similar and after a while, I was like I don’t really need all this stuff anymore as I started to do IT for a living, and promptly hated doing anything after work

Well I imagine he's probably someone that does IT, but doesn't hate it. There are lots of people that do it for a living and have their own home labs.

[neufuse Veteran]

On 20/01/2024 at 09:51, winrez said:

hmm how man U's do I need in my rack? or is it how many U's in that rack, which is it?

[forster]

Update/cleanup now with Virgin 1GB FTTP... 💦💦💦

[forster]

Update to the rack family, Ive gone a bit mad, but it's Xmas right?

I was going to start a seperate thread but my 25u is updated, dedicated machine for proxmox at the top, a new (old) to me Synology 4 bay unit, 16 port switch is gone and replaced with a POE switch.

Also, I have kinda fallen in love with 1L mini PCs for services, so I'm working on downsizing everything into the other bad boy, the Rackmate T1 by DeskPi. Two proxmox machines, third is for testing linux distros/messing about with. I also have another one of these that's running Batocera and connected to the TV. All have 2TB NVMe drives. They are just 1GB on the network side, but that's fine. My main PC and servers all have 10GB but I'm moving all of my Plex media to a seperate 8TB USB Drive (not pictured) which will sit in the botton of the Rackmate. I'm currently not using any Pi's, well, I have some knocking around but when you start running proxmox on dedicated machines they become a bit redundant. I imagine I could probably run all the services I need on a couple of Pi's but I prefer the headroom and versitility of the HP mini PC's. So, now I just need to finish the cabling, and finish transferring media, then I can get it all switched on and running!

Happy days!!

[forster]

All up and running, wired. Machines:

Proxmox - Plex, Nextcloud, CasaOS, on CasaOS I am running Qbittorrent and metube

Proxmox - CasaOS, just as a dropbox alternative

Ubuntu - third machine down is just for testing Linux distros, messing around, all the good stuff

USB 8TB drive - holds all the media for Plex, Ive got this connected through the Plex VM /etc/fstab to mount on boot/reboot

Mapped all the folders through Windows and it's fine, Plex is picking up remotely absolutely fine, very happy!

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

I want..

[forster]

Raspberry Pi 5 8GB, Active Cooler, NVMe HAB! No SD card, but a 500GB NVMe drive.

Using to test new docker containers, just to play with tbh, the fan rarely even spins up

Pi OS, Docker, Portainer = Profit