Solar Powered Home Lab Network Tour 2023

In this video I take you on a tour of my Solar powered home lab / home network which features 5 Gbps symmetric WAN, 10Gbps LAN, servers, CAT6 and fibre network runs all powered by a 3.5KwH 10 Panel Solar System.
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[@mharding1258]

I have the same CSS model Mikrotik switch in my cab here at home. I'm using the RB5009UPr+S+IN as my core.

[@Bawlk]

Just an FYI regarding your rack, I'd love for DC to use 80 wide racks but majority of them use 60x1200

[@DX-wq3wl]

woow cool, it is a lot of cables. Do you have some tool for documenting and diagramming all of that stuff, or you just use these labels, to make sure you unplug right cables?

[@nsmmedia]

Thank you and in answer to your question I use the labels to know what is what

[@DX-wq3wl]

@@nsmmedia Yes i understand, but i noticed that devices are labeled in some way, so i thought that you have some digital documentation of the rack or some network diagram software. I would like to build little setup for one friend, but i do not know what to use to document it.

[@nsmmedia]

While I don’t have a full network diagram kept digitally (it’s kept in my head lol) I do have a spreadsheet of IP address, Vlans etc. Also use PRTG to map and monitor my network. I have used MS Visio in the past to do network and rack diagrams. Trouble is finding software that is free as most only offer basic stuff for free then charge. Good luck with your build 👍

[@mharding1258]

@@nsmmedia I have EXACTLY the same method of documenting mine.... network in my head, spreadsheet full of IPs for devices, hypervisor and VMs etc etc