Homelab – April 2022

Today I would like to share my downsizing project. As power gets more expensive (even I have own solar power) and I don’t have the time to play with it a lot I removed everything unneccesary and move on with only production servers.

On the left side the „before“ situation:

Unsued Supermicro Server

DIY main storage Server

Quanta server as ESXi host

New Supermicro storage server

3x older HP DL160G6 as cluster lab

Fujitsu blade center

HP storage server

HP blade center

Details for „production“ servers are below.

My smaller rack now carrries from top to bottom:

Fujitsu Celsius C620 (E3-1280v2, 32GB, Nvidia Quadro 6000) was used to be my second VM Server for GPU related stuff. But as this does not support SR-IOV and I didn’t get it working for plex I will replace this for a dedicated Nextcloud host.

Quanta S210-X22RQ (2x E5-2670, 256GB) is my main VM host, currently running ~30 VMs (Nextcloud, 2 Windows Domains, Docker, Gameserver, Plex etc.)

DIY Storage Server (i3-6100, 32GB, 14x 4TB, 6x 600GB, some SSDs as Cache, reused 2 damages chassis) will be replaced slowly by the next Storage Server.

Supermicro CSE-847 (2x E5620, 48GB, 4x 14TB, 2x 1TB) used to be new storage server but disks are to expensive right now 🙁

Back:

Netgear GS752TXS

some Avocent console server

Plans for future

move 2,5″ storage to 3,5″ storage and remove old storage server

maybe HA VM host with central storage