Hi all, long time reddit lurker, first time lemmy poster here.
This is the current state of my tiny homelab. I use it for learning and self hosting some services.
Top to bottom:
IPS modem / router
- only used as cable modem
- all other functionality is disabled
HP Elitedesk 705 G3 Mini
- Proxmox VE Host
- 4C/4T - 16GB RAM
- 128GB SSD for Boot
- 500GB NVME SSD for VMs
- replaced 2 Pi4 and still gives space for experiments
- Services: NodeRed, InfluxDB, Grafana, PiHole, Uptime Kuma, Observium
Kobol Helios64
- ARM-based NAS running Armbian
- 6C/6T - 4GB RAM
- 128GB SSD for Boot
- 3 x 1TB HDD as raid5 for storage
- Services: personal Nextcloud instance, that I use for file sharing and synchronization between my devices and also as WebDAV target for Joplin
4-Port Firewall-Appliance
- runs pfSense CE
- 4C/4T - 4GB RAM
- 128GB SSD for Boot
- manages VLANs, DHCP and reverse proxy (HAProxy)
not in picture
- managed switch: TP-Link TL-SG116E (looking to upgrade to a switch with some 2.5G Ports)
- UPS: Eaton Ellipse ECO 650
All together this pulls around 60W from the wall. Happy to answer questions.
Looks nice. My biggest worry with installations in living quarters would be dust and lint. I realise this isn’t always an option, but when I moved my installation to a dedicated server room in the basement, the amount of dust in the cases reduced considerably, and what little was left was very fine. A yearly vacuuming is completely sufficient to keep it under control. The amount of lint reduced to zero.
One of my previous main workstations literally died when its CPU fan seized because of dust accumulation.
Just something to keep in mind.