Nice office to under the unfinished basement staircase: the shunned homelab
When my kids became mobile, I lost my nice cushy home office with a couch and home theater to a childrens’ plaything repository. And so I migrated my work area to the least groomed part of the house; the unfinished basement.
I’m working on a DIY rack now, and eventually finishing an area down here with some walls/better lighting and sound isolation.
And upon discovering this massive dollar-suck of a community, the homelab has grown substantially. Thanks for that.
I started with the NSFW Anniversary build, became a build-complete, donator, and then a degenerate networking and virtualization student. I’ve shuffled some boxes around since.
A few livestreams, spreadsheets, builds later, i’m sitting on 2 inventec boards, one Unraid NAS into the case where the NSFW started its life, and one pfsense machine.
I have a ton of space left in the NAS - need to get back to recording/downloading. The first disk is saturated from my FreeNas to Unraid shift.
I meant to put some toes in this for you jdm; sorry.
7PESH2 became the FAT TWIN next to a LESS FAT TWIN front-facing pfsense cutie
JANK ALERT
DFI Boxes are in a 3 node cluster – probably need to redo this properly at some point.
Too many laptops; these are only the few that i keep charged for demos.
Can’t forget the shining boy of the group, the Prusa Mk3, not yet in his Lack enclosure.
| Name- | Purpose | MB | CPU | RAM | HDD | SSD | GPU | OS | Etc |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NSFW | Virtualization DC/CA/vCSA Horizon 7 VDI | Gigabyte 7PESH2 | 2x E5-2680 | 128GB DDR3 (8x16GB) 64GB DDR3 (2x32GB) | ----- | 2x Kingston A400 960GB | Nvidia Tesla P40 Unused: Nvidia GeForce 660 | vSphere 6.7U2 | PCIE 2x USB3 2x Arctic 33+ SanDisk UltraFit 64GB |
| Invetec Donator Special 1 | NAS/Docker | Inventec T2380103-Rev | E3-1260L | 24GB DDR3(3x8GB) | 5x 10TB Shucked WD (White) 5x 8TB Shucked WD (3 Red, 2 White) | 1x KingDian 240GB Cache | ----- | unraid 6.7 | Arctic 33+ HP SAS Expander Dell Intel X520-T2 10GBE (need riser) SiliconPower 32GB USB |
| Invetec Donator Special 2 | pfsense | Inventec T2380103-Rev | E3-1260L | 8GB DDR3(1x8GB) | ----- | ----- | ----- | pfsense 2.4.4 | Acrtic 33+ Dell Intel PRO/1000 VT Quad GBE |
| DFI Cluster | vSAN Cluster vCSA/DC/CA HA | DFI BE17X | AMD RX-427BB | 16GB DDR3 (2x8GB) | ----- | 3x ADATA SU635 960GB (1 each) 3x SUNBOW 120GB MSATA (1 each) | ----- | vSphere 6.7U2 | 3x Fractal 50mm 3x Fractal 40mm 3x SanDisk UltraFit 64GB |
| Main Workstation | General Use/Gaming | Asus Maximus VI GENE | i7 4770K | 32GB DDR3 | 1x 4TB WD Purple (PVR) 1x 3TB WD Green 16TB (2x8TB Red) WSD MyBook Duo | 2x Seagate 600 240GB (striped) 1x Crucial M500 CT 480GB | Nvidia GeForce 1050 Ti OC | Win 10 Pro | Thermaltake Gravity i2 92mm |
| PiHole1 | DNS/Adblocking | Raspberry Pi 3B+ | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- |
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| SuperMicro GBE 48+4 Managed Switch | nSXT | SSE-G2252 | ----- | ------ | ------ | ------ | ------ | ------ | 1x Fractal 40mm |
| TP-LINK GBE 16port Unmanaged switch | Primary switch | TL-SG1016 | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | |
| NETGEAR 8port Unmanaged Switch, 4xPoE () | IP Cams | GS308P | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | |
| Prusa i3 Mk3 w/ rPi 3B+ | 3d Printing | Raspberry Pi 3B+ | ------ | ------ | ------ | ------ | ------ | Octoprint | |
| Monoprice Mini Delta w/ rPi 2 | 3d Printing | Raspberry Pi 2 | ------ | ------ | ------ | ------ | ------ | Octoprint | - |