Homelab – Feb 2019

Front View of Rack

Starting from top to bottom:

First one (or better two) is my pfSense cluster (Supermicro X8SIL, Intel X3430, 4GB RAM, 16GB USB drive, quad port NIC). My main firewall. Currently I have 8 seperate networks, I’m hosting some web- and game-servers and this firewalls secures my network. It does basic routing and services like dhcp, dns etc.

The first HP server (DL 360 G7, 2x QC CPU, 96GB RAM, 4x 600GB HDD) is my 24/7 ESXi host. It’s running ~10 VMs (Web/Gameserver, Jump-Server, LibreNMS, Domain Controller, Render-Server).

The next three (DL160 G6, 2x QC CPU, 32GB RAM) are for virtualization testing (ESXi, xen, xcp-ng, proxmox, kvm). I like to test on real hardware and i configure mostly a cluster with three nodes. This are no productive systems. But i like to build a system that can be used for production just for training and for fun.

This nodes are followed by my Freenas-Server. The HP Storageworks (6 Core CPU, 32GB RAM) is connected with the disk-shelf below. It is my storage-server for everything. My private data, for iSCSI and NFS shares…

Next server is used to be my backup fileserver. But I only put this one in my rack when i got it but not more. In the meantime the hardware is actually too old to be used for this purpose.

The next Dell server was my pfSense before I got my Supermicro Cluster on the top.

The IBM server (there’s actually two, but a friend borrowed one) are for software-tests and CAD calculations for my brother.

The older HP Servers used to be some hypervisors but they have been replaced by the other servers. Now they’re collecting dust and are high-tech fillers.

Then there is my Bladecenter HP c7000. The main reason why I have a Bladecenter is that I wanted to have one. Just to be in my rack. I want to learn how to handle this systems but I’m just searching for some SAN solution to get some production-like tests. More or less for future use.

What you don’t see are two switches on the back (Cisco Catalyst 3560G Port & Quanta LB4 and i just bought a Quanta LB8 for 10GBE) and a KVM + PDUs.