Home Lab Confab

Victor S

Mar 3, 2022 • 2 min read

Actual picture of the inside of a processor, I think

I keep getting questions from literally everyone I talk to asking about my home lab set up.

My milk man, my Pokemon trainer, random people at Aldis, even my cryogenic planning advisor!

Alright, to honor my adoring public let me spill the beans about my High Performance (read: extra low budget) Compute Center 😁

Systems

T3500 Precision

Xeon 8 Core W3530 2.80GHz
24GB RAM
14TB HDD Storage / 1.15 TB SSD Boot+VM Storage
Ubuntu Desktop
Usage: General Purpose Compute - Docker/Swarm, Kubernetes, VirtualBox, ERP Server, ZoneMinder Server, NFS Server, Backups + Snapshots + Syncthing

T3600 Precision

Xeon 8 Core E5-2665 2.40GHz
48GB RAM
4TB HDD Storage + ZFS / 120GB SSD Boot disk
Proxmox VE‌‌Usage: General Purpose Compute - Docker/Swarm, KVM, Kubernetes + Argo CD, AWS LocalStack, NFS Server, Backups + Snapshots

Dell Inspiron N5040

Core i7 M640 2.80GHz
8GB RAM - 256GB SSD - Ubuntu‌‌Usage: Ingress & DNS - PiHole, BIND, Docker/Swarm, Virtualbox, Nginx Proxy Manager, Portainer Manager, Grafana Host

Acer EasyStore H340

Atom 230 1.60GHz
2GB RAM
8TB Storage + ZFS
Proxmox Server VE ‌‌Usage: building up to be Deep Freeze & Redundancy Storage

Bad power supply! Bad!

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APC Backup UPS Pro 1500

2 Working batteries out of 6 😎

I took it apart only to find that it was the removable batteries that were bad lol

Network

TL-R605 Main Router - 3 Subnets for General, Servers, Guest + VLANs for Virtual subnets
2x 1Gigabit Routers w/ 5GHz/2.4Ghz WiFi (TP-Link & LinkSys) running in AP Mode
2x 1 Gigabit 8 port switches (TP-Link)
2x 2.4GHz WiFi Repeaters in extender mode
1x LinkSys VOIP
2x DCS-8000LH Wireless Cameras (connected to ZoneMinder)
400/20 Mbps Spectrum Cable

Rando test results

iperf intra-network test between the precisions, not too bad

Speedtest results, what's up with that upload speed??

Anywho

Want to see anything else? Let me know!