home lab

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    Upgrading my home to 10Gb ready - Recommendations

    Hello Community, first post, please be gentle. I am trying to upgrade my home network to 10Gb. I currently have: AT&T Fiber with the Gateway in the master wiring closet. Capable of up to 5Gb internet, setup in passthrough mode. Then connected to a PFsense passively cooled 6 port gigabit...
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    Old PC Server Build for OPNsense Firewall, Pi-hole, and Web Server, VMs & More

    Build’s Name: SuperFunTime Operating System / Storage Platform: Primary OS: Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS / Linux Mint / Windows 11 (depending on final testing) Storage Platform: Mushkin Tempest 256GB PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe M.2 SSD for OS and VMs, 2x 1TB Western digital Blue HDDs for personal data and...
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    Low Power Server OPNSense/Home Assistant(/Nextcloud)

    I am currently researching potential hardware for a Router/Home Assistant Server. The STH article on the R86S-N got me thinking about the topic. https://www.servethehome.com/this-gowin-r86s-pro-is-an-everything-revolution-with-25gbe-and-2-5gbe/ My current homelab (I left out anything thats not...
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    10GBe NICs suggestions

    Hi all, I need your help since on networking equipment my knowledge is pretty basic. I have a Threadripper workstation (Linux/Windows) and a recently converted my previous Xeon workstation to a server/NAS device. Both workstations are connected through 1GBe to my router and from there to the...
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    Dell Poweredge R620's - 16/20 Cores - 64/128gb RAM - $200

    I am just really starting my HomeLab and wanted to get something that actually supports virtualization (all of the old HP DL3xx G4's that I have are too old to support virtualization) so I went exploring and I found some good deals. I bought one of these myself and wanted to share: I opted for...
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    REQUEST: Suggestion for MiniPC w/4xLAN + >8 threads

    So I'm looking with great interest at the Beelink 12/pro/etc series STH has been reviewing, and while I find the P+E cores *really* close to where I want to be, for a virtualization env, i still want to keep storage and VM's on separate interfaces. With proper redundancy, that requires (4)...
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    SuperMicro H12SSL-i SATA interface problem

    I have a Supermicro H12SSL-i motherboard with an ESXI system installed on it. Recently, I want to pass through the hard disk to the virtual machine through the sata controller to the virtual machine. When I opened up the ESXI PCI device passthrough page to try to passthrough a sata controller...
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    My budget server build S2ML - Quanta QSSC-2ML 1U Server

    TL;DR, To be continued soon... Build’s Name: 
S2ML Operating System: PVE, Ubuntu Specification: Dimension: Rack 1U (seems not standard 1U, Quanta has multiple models like that) Chassis, barebone system: Quanta QSSC-2ML Chipset: Intel C602 CPU: Intel Xeon E5 2670 V2 *2...
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    New HomeLab server

    Hello, I have a Microserver Gen8 - it's runing ESXI with Pfsense, Home assistant, OMV6 and RHEL9 for containers E3-1230 v2 16 RAM ECC (it's the maximum) 4x4TB WD RED NAS I'm running everything in one and only server, if something goes wrong, well no internet, nothing. I wanted to buy a 2nd...
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    [WTS] (Switzerland) Homelab: 1920x Threadripper (12core), 64gb ram, 36tb disk, rack, 4u case etc

    Selling my homelab since I am just not utilizing it enough. Used for running experiments in proxmox, as a home-media-host and plex host. Local pickup preferred (Zürich area). Will deliver for free around Zürich, Switzerland. Can ship anywhere, buyer pays for shipping/customs (some of the items...
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    First time help

    Let's start by saying that if I'm in the wrong forum please let me know so I can ask this question in the right place. This is the first time building a home server and I would like it to be a file server, plex, and home assistant machine. Is there an OS that would best be suited for this...
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    Confused about high availability clusters, swarms, etc.

    I’m building a home lab and I want to self host a few websites and several services like NextCloud, Joplin, PhotoPrism, etc. I plan to run each service in a Docker swarm for high availability and load balancing. I’d like to run all these containers on a HA cluster of servers; I have several...
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    Starter HomeServer Recommendation

    I want to created a Home Server/Home Lab most likely running some hypervisor to easily spin up VMs. What system would be recommended in the $300-$500 range that would be best. I'm looking to buy new and ideally prebuilt, but could build a PC if it made sense.
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    Recommended platform for a home server

    Hey, Not sure if this is the correct forum, but the CPU and MOBO are a big part of the question... I'm looking to buy a home server to installed with proxmox to cover the following needs: pfsense unifi NAS plex home assistant And have two leading candidates, both with pros and cons: HPE...
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    Working home lab build

    Hi everyone, I am new posting here! I would like to build a home lab to run K8s and other working environments by spinning several VMs. I am looking to build around 2 x INTEL XEON E5-2670 CPU PROCESSOR 8 CORE 2.60GHZ 20MB L3 CACHE 115W SR0KX. Cooling the above with 2x Supermicro SMH...
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    Networking Services don’t auto-start on boot up - Dell R720 w/ proxmox (Warning: Beginner User)

    I’m working on a home server project using a Dell R720 to serve as a NAS, PLEX server, and torrent grabber. This is my first server ever and my first experience in networking, server hardware, and Linux. Because of this, I do not know how to carry out the three functions listed out above so I’m...
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    Buying advice - Home Lab - Dell R630

    Hello Looking to build a new home lab. I have a basement area however still looking for a quiet set up since I could move in the future. So noise should be kept low however more importantly I will be keeping things on 24x7 and would like low power consumption. Budget is on the low to medium...
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    What's your home lab environment for?

    I had a bit of a write-up earlier in the evening - I was thinking about what a home server environment is typically used for. For me, it's for doing stuff that you would otherwise not do at $DAYJOB - maybe pull apart Kerberos to figure out how it works, write some godawful shell scripts that...
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    Faster then 10Gb home, home office and lab recommendations (IB, VPI etc?)

    Hi there all, I've just finished setting up a nice AIO proxmox server and between it and my workstation (direct connection), it saturates 10Gb or gives a faster then local SSD speed depending on work load (NFS maxes out at 4GB/s but thats a different thread)......and now I want more. Well not...