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About
A friend and I have a homelab setup in his basement, as well as a few components in my house. We have been slowly amassing assorted old servers to add to this lab so that we have a fun playground and can host all the game servers and websites we want.
Hardware
- 2x Netgate SG-3100 (running pfsense)
- 1x HPE DL360 G6
- 6x Lenovo DL350
- 5x Raspberry pi 3B/4
- 1x HPE G5(?)
- 2x Old desktop
- 1x 42U Rack
- Assorted switches
Totaling to ~350gb ram, ~60 cores @ 1.6-3.5Ghz, and ~30tb raw disk capacity
What are we doing with all that???
Good question! Mostly just messing around, having fun, and learning!
I connected our pfsenses via ipsec tunnels so that the infrastructure at each location is accessible from the other.
I run my website (this one) as well as a few other sites from one of the old desktops. I also run a minecraft server on both of the old desktops.
My friend is using 2 of the PIs to run his website.
We currently have 3 Lenovos in a XCP-ng cluster and the other 3 in a Proxmox cluster. We have the G6 setup as a SAN for the clusters.
Oh boy, live migration is so neat when you are running VMs off of a SAN! You just click a button and boop its on the other host!
We have two of the PIs setup as pi holes for DNS based ad blocking. Currently we are blocking ~7.5m domains.
We have a Factorio server running on the G5.
We have 2 Netgear S3300-28X switches on the way so that we can use link aggregation to get a redundant, high throughput storage network.
History
In 2016, I got my first desktop. Since then I have been running various websites and game servers in my free time.
In 2019 I got a second desktop to use as a dedicated server. I also added a pihole which functions as a wifi access point for my laptop.
In 2020 I got a small Netgate firewall running pfsense.
In 2021 I got an old HPE server from my school which was selling a bunch of old hardware.
In May, 2022 I received a 42U rack. A friend and I decided to combine our home labs to this rack and colo out of their basement.
The most recent addition to our lab in December 2023 was 6x Lenovo RD350 and a HPE DL360 G6.
