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Posted Jul 15, 2019, 11:22 AM UTC
Today i (re)rebuild a new server and made a few modifications to my lackrack setup: https://imgur.com/gallery/GjOLytD
Rack Overview:
Server:
Currently running:
R710 II
42GB DDR3 ECC RAM, 2x E5540 CPUs, as for storage 1x 120GB SSD, 1x 80GB HDD and 1x 1TB HDD.
Running Nginx, Dante (proxy server), Plex, InfluxDB, PostgreSQL, Grafana, BitWarden, some personal projects and pfSense on Proxmox. Everything besides pfSense is a container.
Future plans
Planning to do a LACK rack for my R710. Might also get another R710 if money allows. Other plans of mine are to get higher capacity SSDs for it and maybe some HDDs for NextCloud.
What are you currently running?
4U Whitebox - Proxmox host - Supermicro X8DTL-3F, dual L5640, 48 GB RAM, random assortment of 0,5 TB, 1TB, 2TB and 3TB SATA drives, which runs
HP DL380 G7 - pfsense host - dual L5630, 4GB RAM, 2x 146GB SAS 10k
RPi 3b+ - AirPlay
What are you planning to deploy in the near future?
As soon as all parts arrive I'll put together new pfsense host. I was able to get 2U rack-mountable case with 350W ATX PSU (~$20), I just got Supermicro X9SCi-LN4F and I'm still waiting for E3-1220v2 to arrive. I'm hoping to bring it to life this week, just plug it all in and copy all settings from DL380.
After this is done I will move Proxmox to the DL380 with the L5640s, and put one L5630 to the Whitebox, which will run barebones FreeNAS.
Any new hardware you want to show
I just built 12U enclosed rack to store all of the above (+ switch, UPS, PDU, VDSL modem etc.), but I don't have any presentable photos, nor do I consider it finished as I'm still waiting to set up the pfsense box which will require new cabling. But I'm so pleased with the case, it's dampening actually a lot of noise and helps to cool everything too (six 120mm exhaust fans, temperatures dropped by 3 to 5 °C).
-What are you currently running? Currently running a old Dell computer which has pfsense loaded onto it, as well as my main computer running windows 10 for researching and all that, also my R Pi running pihole.
-What are you planning to deploy in the near future? Going to be setting up my ML350p gen 8 server running ESXI, and going to be putting windows server 2019 as one VM which will help me learn AD, and Ill also be setting up a DNS server in there as well, as well as a few other VMs but entirely sure what they will contain at this point in time. Also just bought a heat sink so i can install a second CPU so will be upgrading my server as money becomes available.
-Any new hardware you want to show. (May update later on with a picture if i remember)
Optiplex 755
Core 2 Quad Q6600 - 4GB DDR2 - 1x1TB WD Blue, 2x320GB WD Black HDD
Running my Plex and NAS server
IBM X3550 M3
Xeon X5650 - 8GB DDR3 ECC (came with another 4GB but that stick came dead) - 120GB 840 EVO, 1TB WD Blue HDD
Running Docker (nginx for reverse proxies, organizr, openvpn, code-server/vscode), Jenkins (nightly build scripts and server management such as my shutdown script which safely shuts down the vms and then the host ever night before i go to bed) and my discord bot
Proliant DL360 G5
completly forgot the cpu and cant be fucked ruining my ears powering it on - 16GB DDR3 ECC - 3x146GB HP SAS
Has throwaway vms for whenever i want to try out something random i never actually plan to use, also has my vcenter server appliance
Pi 3 B+
runs pihole as a dhcp server
iiNet Budii Lite router
what do you think this does numbnut
What are you planning to deploy in the near future? Honeypot is next on the list, i need to add more ram to my M3 first before i can run anything more
*Any new hardware you want to show?*the IBM is the last thing i bought and thats been explained above
https://imgur.com/odJILrP.jpg My apartment homelab
Outside the rack; Fractal R6
MSI B350M Mortar Arctic
Ryzen 7 1700
16gb Ram
LSI HBA card, Mellanox ConnectX2, Nvidia GT710(running in a pcie x1 slot)
32tb total storage, 24tb storage available due to parity
Unraid server, first server(upgraded the case last year). Runs my plex server, airsonic server for music, and deluge for linux ISOs on top of serving as my main network share.
On top of rack;
Linksys router that's getting replaced with pfsense and ubiquity access points soon. ISP provided modem, getting 100/40 speeds pretty reliably, but FIOS is finally hitting my neighborhood soon
Inside rack starting from bottom;
2U white box build
Gigabyte b450 aorus m micro atx mobo
Ryzen 3 1200
8gb ram
2 intel nics, nvidia gt710
250gb m.2 boot drive on the board, mirrored 120gb sandisk ssds and 1tb toshiba hdd pulled from a ps4 installed in a 4 bay icydock hotswap bay
Runs Windows Server 2019. Kind of built this to reuse some parts discarded from other builds when upgrading. Had to just buy the case and mobo and icydock cause I wanted to minimize how often I needed to pull this case out. Server is mostly used for Hyper V at the moment, nothing really critical is installed here while I mess around with features since I got the license free with my .Edu email.
VM1; Ubuntu 18.04, MySQL docker. Set up the database and connect to it remotely to practice and learning mysql using pop SQL on windows.
VM2; Ubuntu 18.04, Nginx instance. Dormant atm, after getting a domain will setup reverse proxy to allow for airsonic server to stream outside the network. Maybe a mail server if I want to hate myself.
TP Link Switch TL-SG3216, 16 port managed switch
First switch, had this for a long time. Does what I need, haven't gone crazy with vlans yet until I finish getting a few more pieces.
PDU(the plug for this thing is beefy)
What are you planning to deploy in the future?
Hardware wise within 2 months gonna grab an HP T620 Plus for a pfsense box and pairing it with a ubiquity access point to cover wifi in the apartment. The windows server is going to be separated from the network at this point and I'll probably migrate the airsonic service over to it since it's going to be open abit so I can give it different firewall rules. Also gives me a 4th place not on the cloud where my music is located, the more places where I can avoid having to source 750gb of music from scratch again the better
A UPS is a pretty big necessity, then a Raspberry pi for pihole follows after that. Then either a raspberry pi stack for learning ansible or a mac mini 2012 to learn/practice on as I haven't touched an apple desktop since 2000. Although those 2 and a microtik 10gb sfp+ switch are a bit more of a longer term goal
Edit: almost forgot that software wise looking to deploy nextcloud on the windows server for personal cloud storage, as well as bit warden for a password manager probably as a docker app on the unraid server for my local credentials
You don't need a physical pi for pihole, you can install it on most distributions - mine is on an Ubuntu vm and works fine.
Planning to get more familiar with metasploit, vulnerability mgmt, ansible/spacewalk and elk so those are being deployed soon. Having a bitch of a time with docker but haven't invested more than an hour into it.
Want to properly move away from my flat lan onto vlans for separation of workloads, have ubnt gear but wary of investing further into the economy as speed seems bottlenecked from the usg3. Potentially sell it off and try another prosumer product.
Compare shinobi dvr against blue iris (prod)
Current set up:
Atom mini PC: Pfsense (main firewall)
Z800#1: ESXI (malware lab)
Z800#2: Proxmox
HP Micro Server Gen8: FreeNas (12TB)
Future things:
Nothing much, working on my jellyfin server
Here's about 3 years of lab photos in an Imgur album: https://imgur.com/a/cZLwAzP
Current Setup
Physical things
Virtual things
Plans
Current Projects
Unused Hardware
Ha ha.
I remember the picture of the rack in front of the tractor and the Jeep body. I've been here too long.
That rack looks cool. Where / how to get it? Is it deep enough for 600mm servers? Looks like it's on coasters, that's the case?
The black rack? It's full depth, on casters. It's an Eaton Wrightline of some variety that I got on Craigslist. I'm not sure where you'd go about acquiring a new one. The small grey rack was full-depth as well, and I have no idea what brand it is. I got that one at the scrap yard.
Meant to gray one.
Sorry, I have no idea where you could obtain one. The only labeling on it was "Southco" on the lock.
What do you use your RIPE atlas credits for?
Nothing, I just hoard them.