The Lab Hardware
For the list of all the services I run with my home lab see my services article
The Lab Services
Take a dive into the Home Lab of Triston Felix
Triston Felix
Networking/My attempt at cable management
Hardware (top of rack to bottom - if available, links will be provided):
- (Left to right) ONT-ISP, Philips Hue Bridge, Z-Wave and Zigbee USB adapter
- Ubiquiti UDM Pro - Using only as a Unifi controller/ Protect NVR attached are 11 Cameras
- WatchGuard Firebox M500 - pfSense installed - (the mods to this are overkill but why not) – CPU- Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4130 CPU @ 3.40GHz, 8Gb of Ram and a 160Gb SSD for boot/storage
- 1U 19 Inch Cable management x2
- ETS 24-Port CAT6A 1U Patch Panel
- Ubiquiti US-L2-24-PoE EA (this was the Early access model)
- x2 HP PoE Switch 3500yl-48G (J8693A) ( The 2nd one is located with the not pictured Dell PowerEdge R610 powering the Unifi APs and Camera's)
Servers
- Dell PowerEdge R610 – Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5649 @ 2.53GHz – 32Gb Ram VMware ESXI 6.7 USB boot – 120gb SSD
- Dell PowerEdge R710 – Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5550 @ 2.67GHz – 40Gb Ram VMware ESXI 6.5 USB boot – Total Space 700Gb
- Dell PowerEdge R710–Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5650 @ 2.67GHz – 32Gb Ram VMware ESXI 6.7 USB boot – 230gb SSD
- Dell PowerEdge R720 – Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2603 @ 1.80GHz – 64Gb Ram – TrueNas Core – Total Space 12Tb providing storage to almost all VM's via iSCSI and a few SMB/NFS Shares – Nas Currently gets backup to a offsite TrueNas box similar to this one with 20Tb of storage and nightly backups to Backblaze B2
Not Shown Hardware
- Dell OptiPlex 7010 – Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz – 32Gb Ram VMware ESXI 6.7 – 160gb SSD
- Dell PowerEdge R610 – Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5649 @ 2.53GHz – 32Gb Ram VMware ESXI 6.5 USB boot – 120gb SSD
- x2 CyberPower UPS
- Tripp-Lite UPS
- CyberPower PDU 1U Rackmount
- The Home for the lab is a 25u Rack, bought it off a guy on Facebook for $50 and it doesn't have any brand listed on it that I could find