Techno Tim Homelab Tour -- Server Rack and Network

[@TechnoTim]

Do you have a homelab? BTW, if you're new here welcome! Be sure to subscribe for more content like this! 😁

[@SavageScientist]

I have 3 old computers in my lab

[@CrypticConsole]

what do you recommend to start my own home lab?

[@xxcr4ckzzxx840]

@@CrypticConsole Whatever you have laying around. Take anything you want. Best case scenario is, when it supports Virtualization. In my case, i grabbed a used Asus Z8NAD6 from ebay and added 2 x5675 Xeons to it for ~50 Bucks or so. Got an IBM 1015 Raid controller, flashed it to IT Mode and now its an HBA which i use for ZFS.

[@CrypticConsole]

@@xxcr4ckzzxx840 thank you for your help :)

[@yan39kees]

Thank you Tim.

[@DiogoSerrano]

I would like to see the software in action running in your servers :). Thanks for sharing your setup with the home lab community :)

[@TechnoTim]

Thanks for the idea! Coming soon! Thanks for letting me be a part of the community :)

[@TechnoTim]

Here it is! kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHnZoIFjpc10ndE

[@PhoenixReflex]

Among everything beautiful you described in this video; the idea behind PI ZERO killed me!. Just loved it!.

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you! It keeps my network running!

[@zinkzxd2891]

Like the wall rack setup and the great idea with the pi-zero!

[@zinsy23]

That's a pretty sick homelab setup! My primary PC also has an Asus Z87 Pro motherboard and 32 GB Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR3 1600! Well, now I have 24 GB of RAM because one of the modules failed. I used to need more but it isn't that big of a deal for me now. Also I have an Intel i7 4790 (without k) on the Z87 motherboard. I did not think anyone had a computer with specs that close! I used to have an i5 4670k until I realized I needed VT-d, so I switched for the i7. I recently built a rackmount server just a couple weeks ago because I was using an Intel NUC to learn homelab stuff, but I wanted to get experience in a rackmount case (whole other ballgame to PC cases) and also have a more permanent homelab services setup. Also, I built my main PC 8 years ago (still running great) and I kind of missed the fun process of doing that, so the server was another excuse. I have a good place by my desk too for the rackmount. No racks (at least yet). It works pretty well for the limited usage so far. I'm very aware about how setups can constantly change. I had no idea I would ever do a rackmount case, but here we are! I've hardly had any chance to use the server yet, but I'm hoping to set it up relatively soon (will need serious blueprint type planning). I'm after having high functionality with a single unit for a reasonable budget, so it will probably do quite a lot for a single machine.

[@quaintumnation7959]

Exceptional -- both the totality of the server rack/network and this video explanation itself. New homelab / expansion is on the radar for 2021. Appreciated.

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you! We're here if you need help!

[@ryanmckee6348]

Dude those chenbro lights are no freaking joke, cracked me up when you mentioned it. Thanks for the great vid!

[@TechnoTim]

Glad you like them!

[@peterruzevich7089]

Thank you for taking the time to make these videos. They are extremely illuminating and insightful, as well as creative and fun. They give me loads of inspiration on future paths and goals for my humble home lab. Not to mention direction on confusing topics. Keep making great content.

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you!

[@jumpman1823]

About damn time! This was fun to watch. Looking forward to your next video.

[@TechnoTim]

Thanks for the encouragement :) Glad you liked it!

[@marcello4258]

homelabs are never complete.. Tim, you nailed it ;)

[@Victor.236]

gotta give you cred for the enormous work you are putting in to your channel. as always, very nice work!

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you so much and thanks for noticing! It is a lot of work!

[@ejbully]

I aint lying my lab is a disaster. But this channel has inspired me to new heights!

[@TechnoTim]

You can do it! Mine feels like it sometimes too!

[@PavolP]

maaaan, the NetApp disk shelf you used,.... waw. Haven't seen it in homelabs many times, but it's great. I am working with NetApp servers for 15+ years and it's great. :)

[@matthewpershing6290]

Shots every time he says home lab

[@TechnoTim]

drunk by 00:32

[@ThylineTheGay]

@@TechnoTim personal experience?

[@sysop073]

Seriously, did he have a bet with someone? Just say "it", we'll figure out what you're talking about

[@TechnoTim]

@@sysop073 it

[@silverbackag9790]

Shit is driving me nuts. As a owner of info websites and a SEO guy, I’m triggered by even light over optimized content. This sounds like a an article from non native English speaker circa 2007. If you could embolden verbal speech, this would have it.

[@SandroPages]

I just found you channel and is have became my favourite channel, straight to the point and easy to follow step by step. Keep it up mate!! HUMAN KNOWLEDGE BELONGS TO THE WORLD!!!!!

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you!

[@NavyCopMA1]

Good tour. Love seeing what people are doing with their systems. I finally picked up a 22U rack on wheels, built out my regular PC into a 4u rack mount case (similar to yours) but all of my network drives are running in that case which also runs my Blue Iris video manager. Pretty much over driving that system so when I am running Blue Iris and it is recording motion while I am doing other things, I will see the load on the CPU get pretty heavy. Will figure out how to separate that out in the future. I have a 2u case that is running Proxmox and virtual servers/docker containers. I need to upgrade the CPU and memory, but it is doing the job so far. I did add a NavePoint 2u lockable drawer and man does that help keep stuff together and not getting lost! For the networking part I have my modem which connects to my NetGear router. Since I started using Ubiquiti AP's, the wireless portion of the router isn't used and really I could probably move over to a software router, but just haven't yet. I've used pfSense in the past, but only long enough to play around with it and not very competently to be honest. I have a Lutron hub attached so I can control all of my various room light dimmers via Amazon Echo. I have 2 24 port patch panels (I used 2 panels so I could put one above and one below the switches for short run patch management... I think it looks better!). The base switch is a TrendNet 16 port gigabit which connects all of my hardwired network connections in the rooms. I also have 2 TrendNet 4 port PoE swtiches to run all of my cameras (so far) and my 2 Ubiquiti AP's. Round that out with 2 Raspberry Pi 3's which I am looking to repurpose (1 was running a home assistant type application in the background, but since I am using HA in Proxmox, it needs to be repurposed and the other was running a website that I used as more of a basic dev system/web bookmark host and trying to figure out the best way of using that in the future.) It's a start and I have other things I will be adding such as 2 audio controllers which will allow me to set up to 8 audio zones per controller and I will be putting speakers in all of the rooms, garage, utility room, back deck and who knows where else... Like you said, plans keep morphing, changing and developing!

[@TechnoTim]

Sound like you have quite the setup! Thanks for sharing!

[@MatthewMcNair]

Slick setup sir! My home lab "grew up" late last year. It all started with Raspberry Pis. I also now have a Dell R710 but I put dial X5675's clocked at 3.06ghz. 92GB of ram and 4x 300gb 15k RPM SAS drives. I also wanted POE and found a great deal on a HP 3500yl 48 Port POE switch. My battery backup just came in this week. It's a 1500va APC. My current rack is an old entertainment center, I'll get a real rack eventually!

[@TechnoTim]

Nice! We have similar setups!

[@EpicNova]

I am just getting into the Home Lab space. Your videos are put together very well especially for us noobs. I look forward to watching more content from you keep it up!

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you!

[@curthenderson6998]

Looks awesome Tim. When I grow up some day (I'm already over 40... sigh) I can only dream to have a setup like this. Thanks for the inspirational and very informative content, it's helped me get going with docker and is really pushing me to get more of a home lab going. Keep it coming!

[@TechnoTim]

You can do it!

[@suhassreenivas1878]

Love the content, came here after 20 things to do with a VM. Subscribed!

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you!

[@dastandbyracoo9124]

I'm surprised your channel isn't bigger you make great content keep up the great work

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you! I’m still new!

[@testthisfordecficiencies]

I have a small lab at home, but the majority of my gear is in production. It runs my phone system, PC's, network, surveillance, control system, and audio visual distribution. A little advice on filming. Frame yourself centred and not too close to the camera. Also, use some baffling to prevent reflections and resonance. You can also use EQ and filtres to tune your lavalier a little better. Your lighting is pretty good. I enjoy your videos and look forward to seeing more content!

[@TechnoTim]

Thanks for the tips! This is all new to me! I definitely need to work on my AV!

[@renegaed]

Thanks for sharing Techno Tim. Very useful to see. Highly appreciated. You're an inspiration.

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you!

[@NickRO1989]

Just finished watching the entire video. Thanks again so much! This was great! I'd love to see how you setup the 24/hr stream for twitch! VM plus passthrough and all that. You're awesome dude!

[@TechnoTim]

Sure thing! Thank you so much!

[@TechnoTim]

Also, some of this is covered in kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJjbZIGDoJt5a5Y

[@NickRO1989]

@@TechnoTim ya thats another great video. Unfortunately my server is not quite so powerful. What I really wanted to do is use my server as a remote OBS streaming machine. Obviously thru a VM or LXC im proxmox. To take most of the rendering load off my main pc when I game. Tried a few different thing but could not get it to work right

[@thesilentobserver93]

Right now, my "lab" consists of a single desktop machine running Proxmox and a switch, sitting right inside of a closet by my front door. Literally just a Dell Optiplex that I bought on eBay for $80, and several hard drives. It is just enough to host my Plex server, a couple of game servers (Killing Floor 2 and 7 Days to Die), and Nextcloud. I might try to get my hands on actual server hardware down the line to add in for additional services as I make my online experience more self-reliant. But, for now, I figured this was a good start. Loved the video by the way. Hopefully I'll make my setup as nice as yours (mine is pretty much just hacked together).

[@TechnoTim]

The Silent Observer thanks for sharing! My first lab was a pc destined for the dumpster! Don’t worry, I still feel like mine is hacked together some days!

[@TheServerGeek]

Great video Tim. Always had the same thoughts myself, show everyone when it's done. In my case that thought exists mainly due to having lots of non-techy family and former work colleagues.......always asking.....why? I believe that there is a place for cloud services, but that doesn't mean you need to do everything there. There's plenty you/we can all do at home without breaking the budget. My lab has changed, been pulled down moved, stored, re-installed many times in the last 10 years.

[@TechnoTim]

Thanks for sharing!

[@N3phillim]

Nice homelab setup.

[@bmac_1691]

Yes, the R710 is a FANtastic server.

[@TechnoTim]

Agreed!

[@TechnoTim]

FANtastic!

[@MatthewHill]

Very nice. I'm just getting started on my own homelab, and definitely jealous. I started with a fileserver, and that went pretty well, but I decided to go with a bunch of used server parts to build a virtualization server. It's not going as smoothly as I'd hoped...

[@gurusuratni4838]

3:51 Thank so much, why do you need a patch panel before getting into the switch? can the cable from the outlet plug directly into the switch?

[@bestcinemaonline]

Great home lab. I have a Lenovo C30 as a server, with proxmox, setup by your tutorials. Maybe one day I will have homelab like you. Cheers!

[@TechnoTim]

You can do it!

[@skaal_]

Great breakdown of your homelab. I've been eyeing the NetApp disk shelfs, or the Supermicro 846. Also, thanks for the reminder on the HD Homerun. I've been meaning to pick one of those up for awhile

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you! The HD Homerun is great! I’ve been using it for years. The NetApp is great too. Found it cheap on eBay.

[@shaniqualatoya5012]

Nice home tour man! motivates me to get my network/server up to par

[@TechnoTim]

Glad to hear it! Thank you!

[@hooami6245]

looks sick! I just started gathering parts to build my first homelab/server.

[@TechnoTim]

Congrats!

[@eltoniozamora2898]

Thanks a lot, very well done. I can't wait to see part 2 of this, keep up the great work

[@TechnoTim]

Many thanks!

[@TechnoTim]

Part 2 posted 😀

[@eltoniozamora2898]

Thank you very much, it was very well done. I love your content and keep up the fantastic work 👍👍

[@CarAudioInc]

Never complete, that's the most true statement. It better not end! :)

[@Shane-Singleton]

I'm jealous of the setup. I'm looking to get a disk shelf as well to pass through a bunch of SATA drives for a large-ish share for my media backups. Currently i've got a Dell R510 with 12x 4tb HSGT drives in a RAID6. Unfortunately the good old Dell H700 raid card won't support 8tb drives so i'm going to go with a disk shelf, a HBA, and pass it through to a TrueNAS VM just like you're doing for your Netapp box. I've got a Dell R710 sitting on the floor over here. It was formally a Google appliance. I love it but the Perc6/i doesn't want to play well with SSD's anymore for some reason. I think it may be a backplane issue as I swapped RAID cards from a R610 I had and nothing changed. But it is what it is. Since I can't really trust it I have Proxmox hosting all of my VM's on a Dell R810. It's a far better unit for the job since it has quad octa core xeons in it for 32 threads and 64 logical processors. I just like my cool little Google box and really wanted to use it. lol. Guess it'll be relegated to 2nd line service. Probably host a Proxmox Backup or additional file shares since ive got a stack of 2tb drives leftover from my old NAS setup. Currently I don't have anything in an actual rack. I've got it sitting on NSF rated shelving. I just don't have the free space to dedicate to even a half or quarter rack. I'll have to figure something out when I finally get a disk shelf.

[@TechnoTim]

So many decisions! That's another thing I love about homelabs!

[@jeffbapst]

I'd like to see a video about your HD Home Run HDTC-2US. What you are using it for and how to set it up.

[@hmortensen1]

what is the screen in your background that is displaying a message. It is on the right side of the screen just behind you on the shelf behind the plant?

[@thudtheace]

Put a piece of plywood as a cover on your rack, then you have space for a keyboard and monitor and KVM (if you use one) for your servers.. This is what I did to my half open frame rack..

[@constantinamundsen2487]

love flashy lights in the dark

[@TechnoTim]

🚥🚦🚥🚦🚥🚦

[@chrisumali9841]

Thanks for sharing and the tour, have a good day

[@chrisumali9841]

I would also be interested in seeing the workload, thanks

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you! You too!

[@ddkeydd]

Hi! can you make a tutorial on wake on lan pi zero ?

[@TechnoTim]

It’s in my github!

[@Luke-Barrett]

The sound level and power draw on this must be crazy

[@saipraveen1382]

i love the way explained your home tour

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you so much!

[@IntraWit]

Can you send me the link on how to do that pi zero configuration to do what you said yours does. I think its super cool!

[@tinkerfu7350]

Hi, discovered your channel by chance, when I started working on the topic to build a homelab for my experiments. Interesting what you are showing. It helps to get started. Will see were my build leads me. I had the chance to get two dell R720xd on which I want to get started with proxmox and setup a docker environment which I will use as my playground related to software development around dockerrized services. Will see what I will do with the second server. Will try to follow you next stream on twitch and maybe ask some noob questions.

[@TechnoTim]

Sounds awesome!

[@JuaneMain]

Hey do you have a video about that script on the pi zero to keep the servers on???

[@TheKc9lnd]

Awesome video enjoyed seeing your homelab, I have parts of my home lab in different rooms.

[@TechnoTim]

That is awesome!

[@rdsii64]

My home lab is just getting started. My rack is a 25U startech 4 post open rack. So far all I have in it is my threadripper daily driver and my dual xeon media server. The next thing I want to add is a third machine just for trying stuff with. After that, who knows where this will go.

[@TechnoTim]

Sounds awesome!

[@glenns7866]

Thanks for sharing this, I'm just getting started with a homelab. I got some old hp servers for free that don't really fit the bill so I plan on selling those and then either building a couple or maybe spending the money on drives.

[@TechnoTim]

Sounds like a good plan!

[@glenns7866]

@@TechnoTim Hey thanks for the reply, can you make a video on vlans? I want to be able to separate my servers and crypto gear and the rest of the network.

[@guywhoknows]

Sell old hp? Just how old? I'd say g6 is holding in there.(just) So anything newer is going to be great for home lab. Depending on your plans. I think the word home lab and home Lan gets a bit confused. But EY. I benched my server g6 and it only scored 20 times less that my daily. So I kinda think, do you need old enterprise hardware or just newer gaming hardware? It ends up costing about the same. ;)

[@glenns7866]

@@guywhoknows Yup, all g6 servers. Im selling atleast one of them, although i might sell another 2 because they are really low spec.

[@trentbauer7897]

I did a similar script on a Intel Compute stick to wake my servers after a power outage. It is plugged directly into mains power, while the servers are behind a UPS. When the power comes back on, the powershell WOL script runs and sends magic packets to my servers.

[@TechnoTim]

Nice!

[@Holdeenio]

Awesome, thanks for sharing!

[@TechnoTim]

Thanks for watching!

[@grizzlah]

Awesome video as always!

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you!

[@I3ull37]

How many kWh per month does your homelab use and what kind of load does your homelab have on avg?

[@westonbean9674]

Hey this awesome!! Thank you so much for sharing you homelab.. I'm working on setting one up in a dell t3500 for now.. plan on building out when the wife understands how helpful and useful they are. Love your content keep it up..

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you! Glad I could help! For me, it was offering services at home that otherwise wouldn't be possible - like file shares, Plex/media, and home security. Making these accessible at home and on the go is where I think you'll get buy in. Your mileage may vary :). Good luck!

[@caspersmith7112]

is there anywhere i can get thhe setup similar to you pi0 with the wake on lan packets?

[@W1ldTangent]

I've run at least one home server for almost as long as I've been using Linux, over 15 years now, and it definitely was a huge contributor to landing my current gig a couple years ago, because I had a lot of toys to show off! I've been pretty on the ball as far as following the bleeding edge trends before they really picked up traction in enterprise for much of this time, but I'm extremely late to the Docker party. Nowadays I even run about half of my smallest workloads on a 4GB and a new 8GB RPi 4. I've only recently begun transitioning KVM-based virtual machines to containers. I had started with LXD, but that still feels too much like a full OS isolation system to me like VMs, which is exactly what I'm trying to get away from. Both for efficiency reasons, and because I need to adopt more of a cattle herding approach to server keeping, rather than treating each instance as a pet. I recently finished putting together the 5th or so iteration of my torrentbox/media server I've always had over these years, for the first time with Jellyfin and Docker, and it only took half a day of tweaking, which was by far the quickest and most painless the process of starting over has ever been for me. I was able to duplicate the entire setup by hand on another system in less than an hour after having done it once. I now have a level of integration and ease-of-use that I've been chasing for years, finally the wife can add movies and shows without my help, and all of our devices have native apps for viewing! I've run every kind of stack you can imagine over the years for this critical task, and this is the first time I've ever felt like the job is finished. Sorry for the long post, one more thing I wanted to add... funny you should mention the critical importance of that Pi 0 sending WoL packets... I have a script running on a couple servers at work whose job is to make sure my coworkers' remote desktops are on and ready when they connect to the VPN every morning after they turn off the wrong machine at the end of the previous day... 😂

[@TechnoTim]

Haha! Nice! No worries about the long post, was nice to read!

[@W1ldTangent]

@@TechnoTim I'm glad, was worried I got carried away. I've watched a lot of your back catalog on the homelab now, and there's a lot of helpful stuff, and a lot I had already implemented so good to know I'm on the right track 😂 thanks for the great videos and reply.

[@FaLLeNaNg3L82]

can u explain or show how to connect a disk shelf and what is needed to use one?

[@TechnoTim]

This explains it kzbin.info/www/bejne/n6fEZXejhNKGisU

[@ajhieb]

11:45 "Raid 1+0, So that gives me a stripe plus parity" Nope. I believe you misspoke. That gives you a striped array that's mirrored.

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you!

[@tablatronix]

That desk is nice

[@TechnoTim]

Thanks! I have an old video on it somewhere

[@tablatronix]

@@TechnoTim ill find it eventually, lol watching pretty much the whole channel atm

[@creechavo]

Ayyyyyye it's tim... Whatsup my brother. Love your content... Im just getting into homelab... Im just ordering my first server... A tower not a rack. Dell precision t7810.

[@TechnoTim]

Nice! Good luck! Hopefully my tutorials help!

[@creechavo]

@@TechnoTim I've been watching some from 2019 upto now. Waiting for some new content.

[@talbertreynolds]

do you have your ups set up with NUT to shutdown your servers when battery is low?

[@LuisPires72]

Hey Neighbor! You need to share some info on that TV DVR equipment you have there. I am still using a WIN7 box with WMC (Which I managed to install on Win10 machines) Dual tuner card and external Antenna.

[@TechnoTim]

Hey! The man himself! Sure man, any information you need, just message me!

[@alfaastrix]

My homelab started three years ago. I planned a $3500 upgrade that was supposed to last me for years. I'm now $13K in with a 42U rack sitting in my living room. And it's really only just started...

[@guytech7310]

So where the video of this amazing rack? Can you post it on your channel?

[@TechnoTim]

Nice!

[@josegranados6304]

QUESTION: Do you run ZFS with disks backed by a RAID controller? Isn't that not compatible? If not, what format do you run?

[@TechnoTim]

All of my ZFS volumes are either direct attached disks or HBA connected disks, no hardware RAID.

[@koraypinarci9686]

It‘s look amazing but how much electricity costs do you have per month?

[@Gosydelix]

Not gonna lie, im kinda jealous.. My "homelab" is based off a raspberrypi which im growing tired of, and since im on a really strict budget ( student ) im gonna try an old laptop to run Ubuntu Server with all those nice Docker shizzle you have made tutorials of

[@raadorfali]

Hi Tim, hope you are doing well, could you please make a video to show installing kubernetes on proxmox and how to expose it to the network?

[@camerontgore]

Will you ever do a video on your HD Home run? It would be very interesting to see how that all works

[@TechnoTim]

Cameron Gore what would you like to see? It’s configured with Plex. Maybe see my Plex video?

[@camerontgore]

@@TechnoTim Are you able to get everything over the network or do you have to use an antenna? Thanks and your Plex video is queued up right now!

[@AJsWorld]

8:37 This video showed up in my recommended, but I have to ask: Why do you not have your networking gear in this rack?

[@TechnoTim]

2:27 :) I just recently racked my server but haven't touched my network equipment yet. I may do some upgrades over using what I currently have. Soon!

[@NycXTool]

this is amazing ! except for: how do you not have any of this firewalled? Add a Pfsense box before the Cisco switch/.

[@TechnoTim]

I have always had one :) it was virtualized at the time :) Thank you!

[@NycXTool]

@@TechnoTim nice!

[@fiveangle]

Cool idea for the Pi Zero as a monitoring host ! The problem we have is when the power goes out, there is no automated boot-up once power comes back. With the Pi Zero running not on the UPS, I'm thinking this would resolve the issue of powering back on. Thanks for the idea !

[@TechnoTim]

Thanks for watching!

[@Kekimus]

Another great one!

[@TechnoTim]

Glad you think so!

[@asmahaneharimech7740]

I like it 💛💛

[@johnjbateman]

Would love to see a late 2021 update video! I know you got a UDM Pro, and wondering what else has changed!

[@TechnoTim]

#soon

[@pkt1213]

I wish I had a full depth (or fuller) rack. I don't have room at our new house for a full rack like I did at the last one. I have a network rack and found a 4u, short depth, server case.

[@pkt1213]

Your videos are on repeat right now. I finally got my proxmox server together last night and proxmox loaded up today.

[@dondon4720]

How loud is that disk shelf??

[@thefirebuilds]

I have that tripp light. Imagine if they had kicked the monitor out 1/4" so you could read it without crouching down.

[@johanmunoz83]

Could you tell me a little more about your pi zero if you could leave me a link to download the script and I have been looking for that type of script and I have not achieved it and you have it or you create it, could you give me a copy please

[@gdmax5]

Very nice, like to see how it connected and network settings

[@TechnoTim]

More to come!

[@Jarek.]

All these toys aren't cheap even in terms of power cost. With 458 W ( 9:03 ), as per a calculator, it gives 530 USD / year. Plus networking rack, I think it easily reaches 600 USD / year?

[@TechnoTim]

Agreed! That’s why I’ve upgraded! kzbin.info/www/bejne/eX7YZpqpjLCWb7s. Already saving over 100w. More to come. Cloud is much more expensive for my workloads!

[@EricMeininger]

Hey Tim - would you be willing to put together an instructional video (or point to someone else who has) on how you built the shell scripts in your Rpi0 watchdog?

[@TechnoTim]

Hi! The script is in my github!

[@EricMeininger]

@@TechnoTim thanks! I’ll check it out.

[@ha1fdan]

6:22 Thourd it was running pi-hole

[@PoeLemic]

I sure loved this video. YOu just don't know. I've been embarrassed with my setup & situation, because it is a combination like yours. I am just reusing old gaming hardware that is OUT-OF-DATE by years, but it works. And, I am just getting into virtualization. So, yes, it would be awesome if you'd share what each PC is doing and what VMs you are running. I plan to do some VMs. I'd like to do Plex and my video collection, and I'd like to setup a VM for my ebook collection. Also, I have a File Server, but I'd like to virtualize it. And, I've got a Win7 Media Center PC going to record TV, and I'd like to virtualize -- but I ran into so many problems in the past, so I'll probably keep that as a separate PC. But, yeah, you have an AWESOME SETUP. I'm not Jelly, but I sure could be. Kudos. Subbing to your channel now.

[@TechnoTim]

Old gaming hardware is the best hardware for starting a homelab! Here’s the video you asked for! kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHnZoIFjpc10ndE

[@PoeLemic]

@@TechnoTim Thanks. Damn, that was fast. You sure have a quick filming schedule, amazingly-fast editing, and tremendous upload speed. Just kidding, I'll go look at it now.

[@savagedk]

Why are you not using those 6 SSD's as such: 4 striped SSD's as L2ARC for a 6x8TB RAIDZ2 and 2 mirrored SSD's for L2ARC?

[@TechnoTim]

#soon

[@opesonee9559]

guessing you use pfsense for your router. Since that cisco is just a switch?

[@TechnoTim]

Opesonee check out my virtualizing pfsense video 😀

[@ver_jj]

What are the ssd that you mentioned that are running in raid 10 in your dell R710 server? I used to have 3 kingston a400 480G in raid z1 in my r630 and the write speed was horrible so I replaced them with 2 seagate ironwolf 110 480G in zfs mirror and now it worked great.

[@TechnoTim]

I am using a traditional raid adapter for my VM pool, raid10, for now. No ZFS on this array.

[@ver_jj]

Techno Tim Ahh I see, do you mind mentioning the brand of ssd that you are using for your raid 10?

[@Ramramkrish]

that's a lot of power consumption for running that PowerEdge server 24/7. approx $1,000 to $1,500.

[@Timichaud]

Hello! Can you or did you plan to cover the hardware and software parts of how you manage to expand your proxmox server (how the netapp is wired to the server with the parts and how proxmox see it and/or truenas) My IBM x3650m3 have only a 6 ports SAS backplane for 2.5" hard drive and I don't understand anything on how to expand my serveur with an external 3.5" disk array Thank you!

[@TechnoTim]

Hey, thanks! Yup, I covered this in my virtualizing TrueNAS video! I virtualize and it pass the hba through to the guest

[@Timichaud]

@@TechnoTim what a fast reply haha if I wasn't subscribed you got my click twice! Thank! Your video are so crystal clear...(nicely explained)

[@qxzapmileamihai8074]

I do have a spare caddy. I might install it on the r710 :D great idea!

[@TechnoTim]

Go for it!

[@btno222]

for security are the hue segregated vlan ???? are the wireless also vlan segregated???

[@TechnoTim]

my iot is isolated along with my guest network. My other public services are completely physically separated (well, virtual nics, networks, switches). vlans coming soon! Thank you!

[@MrRAH]

I loved the tour! I have gained some inspiration to keep going on my home lab and improving it with time. I am wondering if you would be able to do a video on your Pi Zero setup with your custom script. I would love to implement this into my own home lab.

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you so much! The code is on my GitHub for now!

[@benlikethecolor]

@@TechnoTim Hey I know this is far after this video was posted but I don't see the code for this on your GitHub anywhere. Can you point me in the right direction?

[@ajaye06]

Informative, interesting ...Johnny depp vibes ... subscribed 😄

[@ExillNetworks]

Hello Tim What's your power draw on the DS4246? I'm really considering buying one, but power is not cheap in my area.

[@TechnoTim]

Not too much but good luck, all the Chia farmers bought them up!

[@redbeardjunior]

@techno tim i need some help I bought the NetApp DS4246 DAS I need to connect it to my base server but its not going that well.

[@TechnoTim]

What's wrong?

[@madhurjoshi74]

Please provide the single line diagram of your network or complete architecture of your network system. What purpose you are using these Servers for ??

[@TechnoTim]

Everything is listed here! kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3aYqmWViJ2Gbrc

[@alphabanks]

This was a great video

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you!

[@rraassttoo]

Hey, i know, that i'm late heree, but what is the purpose of patch panel, when he can just plug the ethernet cables straigt into switch and save money not buying patch panel and jumpers ?

[@TechnoTim]

The patch panel I have in this video is where all the ethernet is routed in my house. The one you see in my network upgrade is to avoid cutting and terminating ethernet cables.

[@rraassttoo]

@@TechnoTim thank you for answer.

[@drewpaschal9294]

What does your power bill average every month?