Setting up my CCNP lab. Got these for free from a local provider (thanks!) and will pair them with two Cisco routers and GNS3 dedicated server.

• WS-C2960-24TC-L V03
• WS-C2960-24TC-S V08
• WS-C2960-24TC-S V06
• WS-C2960-48TC-L V09
• WS-C3560-48TS-S V02
• WS-C3560-48TS-S V02
• WS-C3560-48TS-S V02
• WS-C3560G-48TS-S V03

I was browsing Kleinanzeigen (german Craigslist) yesterday and randomly stumbled upon this Dell T440 which apparently came from a company that bankrupted a year ago.
The seller who was a former employee had more or less no idea what it was, and what the specs were.

I wasn’t really planning on buying something like this so i offered 450€ for fun, but he actually agreed

Now i have this thing sitting on my desk and I’m not quite sure what to do with this lol. My homelab hardware so far is just an old laptop running Jellyfin and Frigate.

The specs are:

1x Xeon Silver 4208
32 GB 2400MHz RAM
5x 2 TB HDDs
IBM HH9 LTO-9 Tape Drive

If anybody has an idea for a good or interesting use case i would be glad to hear

Cheers

I recently started to host vault warden in my homelab and was wondering 2 things. 1, Are cloudflare tunnels safe to use to access vaultwarden?, and 2 What cloudflare settings keep this setup safe? Thanks.

Picture is for algorithm and is unrelated

so in reality this is about 320GB of DDR3 ECC added to modern DDR5, but proxmox wouldnt embarrass me like that. Numbers are numbers!

This cluster is used for dev staging and backup/redundancies, and local AI.

One day when I clean it up I'll do a full inventory with pictures, but the way RAM prices are going I should probably revisit my contents insurance.

I made this horror from a bunch of old pc's and hardware buried in drawers I didn't open for years. It's not much but hey, it works !

It's mainly running OMV for my movie collection along with a few other apps for my home :

- HA

- Game servers for my girlfriend and me

- OpenVPN

- qBit

- Plex for monitoring my movies and Kodi for local streaming

It has an i5-7600k, 16 gigs of RAM and a grand total of around 10TB of storage ! Most of it I got from FB marketplace or yard sales

Hoping to upgrade it very soon (maybe invest in a proper rack mounted case)

Ryzen 9600X, 32GB dual channel DDR5, 2x CMP 170HX
Ryzen 5700, 32GB dual channel DDR4, 5x Vega 56
Intel i7 9700, 32GB dual channel DDR4, 3070 + 2080ti
Ryzen 7500x3D, 32GB dual channel DDR5, 7900xtx + 2x 5600XT

223 GB total VRAM

my local recycling center was doing an electronic recycling week,found this along with a PowerEdge R710, completely free

unfortunately neither one has ram, unfortunately neither one had ram, but still a cool pickup

now I just need to find ECC ram....

we moved to new home so i setup my home lab temprorly. just works

ont for isp connection. my opewrt s3 2100 router, Dell wise tin client from dns and torrent client. with direct attach battery backup dell pc is workstation for gaming using parsec. 😭👍

Was randomly scrolling Yahoo Auctions Japan and stumbled on this Starbilas 4-bay NAS. For 90 bucks, it's an absolute steal.

​Specs inside:

​Motherboard: ASRock Rack E3C246D2I (worth way more than $90 alone!)

​CPU: Xeon E-2124G

​RAM: 16GB ECC UDIMM

​Bays: 4x 3.5"

​The case design is actually brilliant. 2 screws pop the outer cover off, and 2 more let the entire motherboard tray slide right out. Super easy to work on, and it fits perfectly in a 10-inch rack.

​Best part? The board still has an open PCIe 3.0x16 slot and an OCuLink port, leaving plenty of room to drop in a 10GbE card and a fast NVMe SSD later.

​Anyone ever heard of this Starbilas brand? Pretty stoked with this find!

I need to make a place for all my dreams to come true. I like the 10” racks but the options I’m finding are tiny or enterprisey. I was looking at audio video cabinets but I’m still on the fence. Any recommendations?

Black vinyl covered plexiglass side panels

2x Noctua NF-F12 industrial fans (120mm, 30K RPM)

1x Corsair 140mm top fan

2x Lenovo M720q

ESXi 8: Home Assistant, Plex, and OPNsense with a X520-DA2 10GbE NICs.  Plex is using PCIE passthrough for the Lenovo’s GPU.  I’m very surprised at the performance of transcoding from it and how good it is!  No arr stack. At home I direct play everything, so not much of a resource hit at all.   

TrueNAS (bare metal): LSI 9300-8i HBA. Requires a dummy HDMI plug; otherwise, the M720q appears unable to supply enough PCIe bus voltage, causing crashes. Not a PSU issue.  Also running on 2.5GbE. 

Network switch: TP-Link Omada ES210X-M2 - Also provides the 10GbE backhaul upstairs.

Without the Noctua fans, the HDDs hit 55C+. With them, temps stay around 40 to 43C. I run them at about 10K RPM, and they’re surprisingly quiet or my tinnitus is covering them up!  I planned to put the rack in a closet with limited airflow, hence the overkill on cooling.  Works so much better in the living room. 

Yes, my M720qs are topless in the rack with 40mm 5v Nocturas blowing on the PCIE cards. :-)

2x Xeon 2667v2 installed.
I've ordered 3 flexible risers last photo(PCI-E to PCI-E 6inch aka 15cm).
I have external power supply with bunch of 6pin's, and i'm ready to cut case.
Which dell riser do i need for make slot "J_RISER_1B" PCI-E ready?

Hi there folks, just joined.

Been working on my homelab for a couple of weeks now, from loos junk everywhere to a nice little rack. Top priorities where: energy efficient, silent, dustfree, no visible cables, and good looking. I think I managed those.

I will be sticking around, I like what I see here.

Rack is a Tec Mojo 10 inch 12U from Amazon

Hardware from top to bottom:

- On top of the rack: A TP-Link Archer 3000 v1, serves as my accesspoint

- Invisible Noctua NF-A12x25 5V PWM fan with an NA-FC1 speedcontroller

- BMAX B4 Turbo (Intel N150)upgraded to 1TB storage and 32GB as a Proxmox node (HA, Pihole, Unbound, OpenVPN, ATM agent)

- MikroTik RB5009UG+S+IN Router

- TP-Link TL-SG108PE Switch

- Tec Mojo Patch panel

- Trusty old Qnap TS-459 for backups and Surveillance station

- Bluecoat Packetshaper 900, not connected, just to show my heritage :-)

Hi.
My stack:
~20 VMs via Proxmox.
All Debian aside from a few Talos machines for virtual k8s cluster

Relevant to my conversation:
One VM runs WireGuard
Another runs nginx as my reverse proxy
Another runs an instance of Authentik
Another runs grafana (and also has Ansible with a ssh key into each vm to automate docker installs, grafana alloy install for shipping logs to the grafana instance, etc)

Also have pushover integrations in some home brew apps for real time alerting already

The only port forwarded service is WireGuard. WireGuard traffic is only allowed into nginx, which then handles TLS termination, and http traffic to the other services

WireGuard isn’t on a DMZ but it is on a VLAN that all VMs are on

Traffic from the VM VLAN is blocked to my normal home network, as well as my UniFi management stuff

What is next?
I think I’m pretty secure, but to be better i’d like better visibility into what is going on in each virtual machines

Since I’m the only administrator, I tried setting up alerting via grafana -> pushover for login events to each VM, but it didn’t quite work the way I wanted to because I think it’s used for more thresholding downtime alerting versus one time things

What monitoring tools are you guys using for security?

Anyone else have any recommendations? for real-time alerting on things like login events or sudo?

Thanks

Hi everyone,

​After running into endless issues with a DOA AMD-based industrial motherboard, I'm pivoting my current NAS build to an Intel Q670 board paired with an i5 14500.

​However, I have a few specific constraints I need to work around:

​Case: Jonsbo N4 (so I need a proper ITX form factor that fits well).

​RAM: I already bought a SODIMM RAM stick for my previous board and I really don't want to hassle with selling it—I want to reuse it if possible.

​I've been looking at a few options, but I'm struggling to find reliable models and ensure 100% compatibility with SODIMM on a Q670 platform (since most mainstream ITX boards use standard UDIMM).

​Does anyone have experience, recommendations, or leads on Q670 ITX boards that accept SODIMM? Any advice or alternative suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

hey guys, i have an iMac 2019 that i exclusively use as my homelab, i wouldve gone for a headless setup but i find having the iMac is just perfectly convenient for how i operate. I currently use everything through docker as i just find it works for me, and i have my plex running without a tunnel or vpn for remote access which works perfectly, some devices and users with access (mostly the users issue) are not exactly simple or low effort as what some want. i also use immich, kavita, audiobookshelf and nextcloud all through zrok tunnels which i have read are pretty secure and were simple to set up. i also use my vaultwarden through an ngrok tunnel. i was just wondering if these are secure enough or if theres a better solution.

Noob here! I'm trying to figure out the design for a basic homelab. I have a 19" rack with 2U available and want to be space efficient. I have been trying to find a 3D bracket design that will include a micro PC alongside two 3.5" HDD openings. I have seen 2x micro PC side by side or 3x or 4x 3.5" HDD but not this combo. Thanks!

I wanted to have a "pocket terminal" instead of a phone so I could easily use my setup on the go. I picked the ultra for the larger screen.

Proxmox. Idracs, portainer, or anything that you'd expect to run on a desktop monitor just works perfectly so far.

I have it on a wireless charging stand next to my work monitor and switch the bluetooth on the keyboard and start typing in the phone. With a VPN right at home, I pretty much have access to everything.

I don't know about longevity and all, but for the pocket computer part, it's not something I ever expected to like this much.

Just wanted to share my homelab, built using some old PC parts I had. The Pc case is arriving next week.

Hardware:

- AMD FX-6300

- ASUS M5A78L-M LX/BR

- 8GB DDR3 (currently only detecting 4GB)

- GTX 750 Ti

- 120GB SSD + 2TB external HDD

OS: Debian 13 with Docker and CasaOS.

I'm using for some self-hosted services:

- Home Assistant — Home automation

- Nextcloud — Personal cloud storage

- Jellyfin — Media server

I'm still working on improving the setup, optimizing resource usage, and eventually upgrading the hardware.

This is my first proper homelab, and I've learned a lot along the way.

Hi, everyone!

I’m sharing my very first Homarr dashboard set up on a VPS. I wanted to keep it very lightweight and minimalist, with the goal of quickly accessing essential information.

I’d love to hear your feedback: do you have any ideas for improvements or cool integrations to recommend for Homarr?

Thanks!