Don’t judge my local fire-hazard.
I’ll get this out of the way first: You do not want rack servers in your home. They’re *really* loud. I am just a crazy person.
Ok, now that that’s out of the way, let’s talk about what we’ve got. Starting with the items actually installed in the rack from the bottom and working our way up:
Synology RS2421+
Hardware:
12x 18TB Seagate Exos HDDs (SHR)
2x 1TB SSD Cache (RAID 1)
32GB RAM
10Gbe NIC
Services:
DHCP
Temporary Web Hosting
NAS
Dell PowerEdge R730
Hardware:
2x 1TB SAS SSDs (RAID 1)
6x 1TB SAS SSDs (RAID 10)
768GB RAM
2x Xeon E5-2699(v4)
2x 10Gbe NIC
2x 1Gbe NIC
1x nVidia Tesla P4
1x nVidia Tesla T4
Services:
Proxmox
Ollama
Prod Web Hosting
Media Management
Frigate
WareWulf Cluster Management
Dell PowerEdge R730xd
Hardware:
2x 1TB SATA SSDs (ZFS Mirror)
12x 16TB Seagate Exos SATA HDDs (ZFS Striped Mirror)
768GB RAM
2x Xeon E5-2680(v3)
2x 10Gbe NIC
2x 1Gbe NIC
1x LSI SAS9305-16e HBA (attached to the PowerVault MD1400)
Services:
TrueNas
NAS
Immich
Minio
Tailscale
Uptime-Kuma
Postgres
Dell PowerVault MD1400
Hardware:
6x 18TB Seagate Exos SAS HDDs (ZFS Striped Mirror)
Juniper EX4550-32T-AFI
10Gbe Managed Switch
CyberPower CPS1215RM
It’s a PDU, what do you want?
On top of the rack things get a little spicier
WareWulf Cluster
Hardware:
1x MeLE Quieter 3C MiniPC
3x MeLE Quieter 4C MiniPC
1x TRENDnet Switch (connects to 1Gbe NIC in the PowerEdge R730 for the WareWulf Controller)
Services:
Test environment for HPC
Details here.
Plex Server
Hardware:
BeeLink EQ12 MiniPC
Services:
Plex
Home Assistant
Hardware:
1x Home Assistant Green
Services:
Home Assistant
Moving beyond the rack entirely we have have the router/firewall
Custom SFF PC
Hardware:
1x Core i5-12400
64GB RAM
1x 2.5Gbe NIC (to internet)
1x 10Gbe NIC (to LAN)
Services:
PFSense
DNS
pfBlockerNG
Finally we have the ridiculous power distribution/UPS setup. I wont go into too much detail here, but there are 2x 1500VA APC UPSes, and everything with redundant power is split between the two. Those two UPSes are themselves plugged into a Jackery 5000 power station.
The rack itself is just a VEVOR 12U open frame rack.
I left out a few things – I’ve got a raspberry pi 5 running an allsky camera in my backyard (https://allsky.miscellaneousnerdery.com/), there’s a sonos node, a smart things node, a philips node, a govee node, etc etc etc. I may go into detail on those at some point, if I ever build out a full network map to share – it has gotten a lot more complicated since my last post.
In my next post I’ll go into the various services I’m running in more detail, along with how they’re all setup and what I’m using them for.