This page tells you about my Home Lab and the technologies I have learnt anout and use:
Hardware
Servers
My main server nicknamed SOONtm because it will always be in a state of "It will be ready soon" and is unfortuantly not on at all times because it is in my bedroom and it is loud.
CPU: AMD Epyc 7551P
RAM: 256GB DDR4 ECC
MoB: Supermicro​ H11SSL-i
GPU: nVidia Quadro M4000
Storage: 2x Intel 256GB SATA SSDs, 2x WD Red 4TB HDD, 2x Seagate Exos 8TB HDD, 1x Intel 110GB Optaine SSD, + multiple other SSDs of varius size and brand.
OS: Proxmox
My Secondary server named dockerbox and is on at all times and, as the name suggests, is used for docker.
CPU: AMD Athlon 5350
RAM: 8GB DDR3
MoB: Asus ITX
Storage: 1x Samsung 256GB SSD, 1x WD Red 4TB SSD
OS: Linux Arch
My Tertiary server named containercontainer and is on at all times and, also used for docker.
CPU: Intel i5 8500
RAM: 8GB DDR4
MoB: Dell
Storage: 1x Crucial 500GB NVMe SSD
OS: Linux Arch
Cloud
I have 1 Cloud VM hosted in Linode that serves a similar perpouse to dockerbox but for services better suted for cloud.
CPU: 1x Shared CPU Core
RAM: 1GB
Storage: 30GB
OS: Debian 12
Networking
I mainly use Asus for my networking solutions and make use of their AiMesh for WiFi in my house as it has good coverage and parent approval factor as I dont have to run cables everyware.
Modem: Virgin Hub 3 - in modem mode
Router: Asus RT-AX88U
APs: 2x Asus RT-AC88U - As AiMesh Nodes
Switch: HPE OfficeConnect 1950 JG960A
Software
I am a big fan of Virtulization and containerization, so I Primarilly use Proxmox and Docker
SOONtm:
The main VM is running TrueNAS Scale which has the 2 8TB HDDs and the Intel Optaine drives passed through. It has those drives in a ZFS pool with the 2 HDDs mirrored and the Optaine drive set as a Level 2 cache.
The other VMs are currently used for testing various services and OSs but when the server is on 24/7, I plan to run various services such as JellyFin, game servers and migrating containers from dockerbox.
On dockerbox the containers I am currently running are:
AdGaurd Home - A DNS filter that filters out Ads from webpages for all devices on the network as well as other privacy and security features.
FireFox - A Web Browser accessable from a Web Browser, browserception.
Jacket - a torrent searcher for qBittorrent
Minecraft Server - a server for Minecraft
qBittorrent - a torrenting client
TrueCommand - An interface for managing many instancess of TrueNAS