Reacting to your Homelabs! #communityupdate

i have never concidered making a homelab until now, but some of the equipment i want to toy with people will likely mock me for due to its age, (eg Pentium 3 Fujitsu Primergy RX100)

Why isn’t Unifi popular in Germany? Aside from the firewall I would say they are really solid

Last one really said „nothing special“ before showcasing his personal data center lmfao

The rack servers in the homelab are best when you need lots of PCIe lanes and large quantities of ram. I am running 124 cores and 700gb+ Ram and countless storage.

What home page is Pray4Tre using for monitoring? I'd like to emulate his setup on mine.

for my little homelab (I really only have laptops but they aren't on 24/7) when I run it I use debian/raspian with portainer because none of my laptops can run proxmox or anything like that.

One video topic could be what workload do you have, the last setup in this video need an explanation 🤔

Got Fujitsu it's an awesome pc, realy low power thing. 10-30w power consumption

Love it

We worked at univerity with MikroTik Routers, those are great litle routers. the only problem I got with them is, that they aren't very well documented

Ich hier in Deutschland nutze auch ubiquiti bzw unifit und hab es auch schon bei anderen Leuten verbaut. Für mich ist das quasi das Apple in der Netzwerk Sparte. Für Private Leute , kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen finde ich das perfekt. Es ist einfach einzurichten und bietet sehr gute Web Guis und Apps um das Netzwerk immer im Blick zu haben. Solange man nicht irgendwelche super speziellen Features braucht sondern einfach nur gut funktionierende Hardware die die üblichen Usecases wie mehrere VLANS, bisschen Traffic Control und paar WLAN Netze abdeckt, ist das wirklich ein tolles System.

How many people remember Freenas jails?

So... is it "micro tick" or "mike rotic" ? I had also assumed it was the tick one... how does everyone else pronounce it? Regardless, I love my CRS317-1G-16S+RM.

Have you considered being an intertech supplier for the US? I would buy directly from you even with some markup.

Ubiquiti is quite popular in Germany as well, along with Fritz!, TP-Link, Netgear, Mikrotik and DIY solutions running PFsense, OPNsense or Sophos. Price to performance is key. But unlike with Fritz! devices our country of origin is easier to hide on /r/homelab when running Unifi^^

I was able to find a used 16 port rack mount KVM console for $230 on Ebay. While not super cheap, it was worth it to just have a compact keyboard and monitor permanently racked in my rack rather than a semi-permanent setup of a keyboard + monitor sitting in my rack (and taking up a whole bunch of rack units with the monitor.)

Love this type of video!

Hi Christian, Mikrotik not Microtic don't drag everything into English. Mikrotik is definitely better than Ubiquiti, so it is definitely worth a look. I have been using Mikrotik for more than 20 years and can only say that if you want to learn networking properly you should take a look at Mikrotik, it is also available as a VM so you can take a look even without hardware. Router, switches and WLAN is already many years in use with me.

Would love to hear about how people are organizing there power cables in a rack I have a 42 U currently using 30U and my power cable management needs some help!

great video, give a lot of ideas, i need to step up my home lab before i summit my picture, jaja

Upvoted and Comment here for more in the future!!!

Great video Christian, loved the content and your commentary.
Thanks

You could also make a Homelab Gore video, where people show their worst homelab setups... Mine is currently pretty bad 🤣

Great video Christian! Thanks for sharing it with us!💖👍😎JP

christian, thank you so much for featuring me and my homelab! i got those dell computers from my IT job for free so i got pretty lucky i didn't have to spend money on building my proxmox cluster server. i love how quiet and power efficient they are. the gpu in my NAS is used for transoding my plex media, so you're right about that. it's so cool seeing everyone's homelab setup, so definitely make this a series! i can't wait to see more of this and be inspired to upgrade 🤓🫡 let me know if anyone has any questions.

Big Mikrotik fanboy here! They take some getting used to but RouterOS is, in my humble opinion, every bit the powerhouse that other options like pfSense are, just taken in a slightly different (admittedly not as user-intuitive) direction.

I couldn't imagine Akwarium30's power bill every month. Those c7000 blade chassis take a lot of power and if you have a fair number of blades in them they pump out a lot of heat. My company uses quite a number of them and at one point the bay lineup had its own overhead dedicated AC system just to keep that line up cooled down.

Gen9s are pretty good servers, that whole set up is not cheap. A 256GB or 512GB blade, he's may be setting up a virtualization cluster with those. The blades don't have hard drives in them from the picture. I would love to get my hands on a r730xd to replace my custom built NAS.

That kinan console is expensive. but compared to the other stuff its still alot cheaper.

Techno Tim have a lot of Proxmox videos Lwrence too

Great video bro

Wohoo … nice. Thank you for the overview :)

Die HP c7000 von akwarium30 , wenn ich mich gut erinnern kann, ist die größte Blade enclosure. Die haben noch ein c3000 "shorty".

Thank you Christian for featuring my lab. (I submitted the mikrotik one) All devices in the rack a Mikrotik and the small router-switch is also mikrotik.
1. The Led lights in the rack are sonoff light-strip cut to length and placed inside a groove the rack has
2. All core network devices (inside the home are mikrotik) and the Camera Network which gets an IP through PPOE and has firewall rules is actually TP-LINK VIGI. The new lineup of POE Cameras.
3. I submitted the simple, with out description, diagram for security purposes mostly but what I can tell you is that there are multiple vlans and a management one. For a description of devices everything is explained in the description of the post on discord.
4. Because the lab is in my bedroom I try to keep it dead silent, so any device with a fan gets shutdown before sleep (that is why I use RPIs)
5. Yes it is a PS3 🤣
6. The tower server is a HP ML10 which I converted to an editing NAS.

ps. The devices are chained at the moment but this is about to change.

my Homelab thus far is one 6 year old 7700K/32 GB/500 GB 960 EVO) with Win10Pro/Hyper-V, a MiniPC (N5105, 16 GB RAM/500 GB SSD) with Win11 Pro/HyperV, and 2 older laptops!

Super idea!! I shared my setup but didnt give the spects of my servers... By watching the video, i realized i shoud have!

Might upload mine once it's ready for prime time.

My lab is 1x libre le potato 2gb lol works pretty well with Jellyfin, want to upgrade to an orange pi 8gb and turn the libre into a pikvm potentially

Roasting your homelabs next lol 😂

Thanks for reviewing my setup, glad you liked it!
The KVM console was not cheap(roughly $1000 USD), but like you, after years of pulling out keyboards and monitors, I wanted an elegant and functional solution and i've never been happier.
The patch panel also the same, its way overpriced but it makes moving things around so much easier.

I have a list of new apps I want to try out. Really interested in the Plex cluster the one person was running.

I loved this idea so much! I am planning to get started soon with my channel and I would like to ask you when you're planning to do it again! I have a homelab of my own and I have been running it for over 3 years at this point! Cheers!

what are y'all running that you need a cluster of servers? I mean for learning, great, but otherwise seems like a huge waste of energy

upvote 69, NICE!

Sweet

Just from my own experience:
Forget about Ceph in a Proxmox cluster even with 2.5Gbit network. It's not fast enough and if Ceph hangs up you can be in real trouble.
For testing purposes it might be ok but def. not for productive required stuff.

This is a fantastic idea! +1 from me for doing this every once in awhile.