HomeLab

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