What's running in my Home Lab?

[@paulrichards999]

Congratulations! I have worked in IT for 26 years and your channel as helped me learn more, and give me the motivation to start again and build a proper Home Lab.

[@christianlempa]

Thank you so much! Glad to hear it’s helping you :)

[@xtlmeth]

Your channel has motivated me and helped me along my journey to get my home lab started. Keep up the great content!

[@GrimSpec]

Same! He also improved so much in such pace that it's crazy. German efficiency 😀

[@christianlempa]

Thank you both! :D

[@mikkelrask8172]

Congrats on you platter, Christian, it is very well deserved, and honestly - without ever thinking about how many subscribers you have had, I think I assumed that you had one already, due to the high quality of content you deliver. Glad so many people finally found your channel! Thank you for everything you do 🙏🏼

[@christianlempa]

Thank you so much 😊

[@walking_on_earth]

Hey I just want to say thank you very much for helping me build my own homelab as well as a web portal with a searcc engine and nextcloud! Your videos were instrumental in helping me learn technologies such as docker and NPM!

[@christianlempa]

Thank you so much! :)

[@blevenzon]

Love your channel Christian, thank you so much for all your hard work. You’ll be at a million viewers in no time

[@christianlempa]

Thank you so much 😊

[@Hafenstrand5]

For all the small stuff I can recommend the DAP Rack Rahmen 2HE, you can print mounts for up to 10 different devices, I use it for my RPis and USB Power and esp32.

[@AntonioPersianoTech]

Great work Christian. I am a network engineer with over a decade of experience, you and networkchuck have motivated me to start posting and sharing my own experience on my new channel too. I have posted my 1st video. Great work bro!

[@shyzouka76]

Danke für deinen tollen content, ich habe direkt festgestellt das du deutsch bist, daher der deutsche kommentar. Ich baue gerade auch mein eigenes Homelab und du hilfst mir echt weiter mit deinen Videos ;))

[@christianlempa]

Vielen Dank! Zeig gerne mal deinen Fortschritt auf unserm Discord :)

[@jwspock1690]

Gratulation und danke für Deine Videos! Auf die nächsten 100.000 ;-)

[@christianlempa]

Vielen lieben Dank! 🎉😊

[@IEnjoyCreatingVideos]

Congratulations on hit 115K+ subscribers Christian! nice home lab tour as well :) Thank you For sharing it with us!💖👍😎JP

[@christianlempa]

Thank you so much :)

[@IEnjoyCreatingVideos]

@@christianlempa Your very welcome Christian! Have a great weekend!😎

[@NonyaDamnbusiness]

I like this channel. It brings back fond memories of the 12 years I lived in Hesse - in Giessen, Friedberg, and Frankfurt (right by the Sud-Bahnhof in Sachsenhausen).

[@christianlempa]

Nice xD and thank you!

[@watchpickle2k]

Can confirm this Startech rack is pretty awesome. You can also buy shelves for it, which I use to position my NUC, modem and other non rack format hardware.

[@weholmes5315]

It's May 2024 and you are on the brink of 200k! Your next Creator Award will be well deserved. Keep up the great work/fun. You are much appreciated 😊

[@christianlempa]

Thank you so much! :D

[@Sylfirus]

About Vlan migration, do it progressively, no need to rush that. The moment you have the necessary hardware, use it by adding your experiment on it, then slowly but surely migrate what you want to migrate on the vlans you created. For exemple you could Do it by copying what you have, put the copy to work in the new Vlan, adapt the adresses and links and disabling the original one, and then... Well you have almost finish. Give yourself 2 days dedicated to that each time you want to make such a move.

[@manu9478]

15:10 yeaaaahhhhh!!!! Dive in, into the infinite rabbit hole of HOMEASSISTANT... Great fun and great despair going hand in hand into 1000 of hours in front of your PC :-) But, You will love it... Greatings from Austria and keep on with your work!

[@christianlempa]

Thank you! :D

[@s__c__o]

Home Assistant is a centralised system that removes the needs for those hubs. For example a Zigbee adapter will communicate with most major smart lights, pairing them directly with Home Assistant (eg. ZHA.) I recommend a ethernet/PoE based adapter to make redundancy easier, the alternative is USB based. TubesZB is a good example.

[@shetuamin]

Congratulation Christian. My first product of my home lab is 22u Server Rack, then I buy a manage switch.

[@christianlempa]

Nice! Why not share your setup on our discord? :)

[@v2power921]

Awesome Home Lab! I'm planning to have one similar in the future 🙏

[@christianlempa]

Cool! Thank you

[@cybr774]

Great homelab! I'm about to get the rack from startech, I can't wait to load it with my hardware that's been lying around the house. By the way, I know that you've already made a couple of videos about teleport, but I'd love to know more about how you deployed it in your homelab and how you access your infrastructure (not to do reconnaissance I swear :') ), like if you have both your teleport CA and proxy running on the same machine or running them on two separate ones, if you run it in a VM running locally or in cloud instances and if you access the proxy from the internet or only from your lan or via VPN (I'm very curious to know about this because I also want to deploy teleport in my homelab, but for some reason I'm so hesitant to make the proxy accessible from the internet, even though it's said in the teleport docs that it's supposed to be, so I wanted to know how you do it). I'd understand if you'd prefer not to, from a security point of view, to not disclose some of these informations, but it would be really cool to see you cover it a bit more, since you also mention it in every video.

[@kriswatchyou6293]

Thanks to yours new great award I realized that I was not subcribed. It's done now, thanks for sharing your amazing homelab experience ! Congrates from France!

[@christianlempa]

Thank you so much :)

[@patrickcasavant-cssmv]

Congrats!!! Well deserved! Thanks for making all those amazing and instructive videos!

[@919stephenp]

Small stuff get a slotted shelf and velcro or zip tie them through the slots in the shelf.

[@xConundrumx]

I got one important improvement for your home lab ... A 3d printer so you can print some rack mounting aids for the odds ins and outs.

[@Weirlive]

great setup!! 21:00 I 100% agree here.. I built my own servers with regular desktop gear and they work great.. I don't need a bunch of Dell R720's screaming at me.

[@dantealvarez2421]

I feel personally attacked....... :)

[@Weirlive]

@@dantealvarez2421 :D hope it works for you.. I just seem to get great performance with low power consumption in a custom build.

[@WisherTheKing]

I use 4x HP Prodesk G6 Mini to run my homelab workloads. Consumer grade equipment is great. It makes you test your disaster recovery scenarios 😂

[@Myektaie]

Congratulations on your badge! Ver well deserved!

[@christianlempa]

Thank you so much 😊

[@ShiggitayMediaProductions]

Very cool stuff, Christian! I actually am running TrueNAS Scale for my storage and VM host, as I've recently migrated my OPNsense instance from a dedicated miniPC from QTOM to a VM running under TrueNAS Scale's KVM implementation. It runs super well and not having a dedicated box using power and it not needing cooling is awesome. The only downside of course is that if I take the entire TNS server down for upgrades etc my internet connection'd be down too until it boots up again. I'm fine with that since that won't happen too often, and I was just wondering if it was possible, and it is. I'm so thrilled with how it's running. I at some point want to convert over to an entirely Ubiquiti Unifi-based network, with their APs and the Unifi Dream Machine Pro/SE (their firewall/router solution), but that'd be expensive, and I already currently have two of their older APs (their UAC Lites) as my WiFi solution for my family's apartment. I'm running consumer hardware as well.. I'm running a Ryzen 7 3700X with 64 GB of RAM, along with 10 (soon to be 12) 4TB HDDs for my Plex Media Server (which is the primary purpose for it all) all in a Fractal Design Define 7 XL case (it's a beast of a case). I guess I can call it my "home server" now since it's not just running Plex, but yeah. I really like how my stuff is all running, but your stuff is cool too.. I have no need for all the stuff you're running, but it's still interesting to watch and see what people out there have. I'll shut up now as I'm rambling, but thanks for the video!

[@christianlempa]

Thank you so much! :)

[@ShiggitayMediaProductions]

@@christianlempa Any time!

[@ShiggitayMediaProductions]

@@christianlempa Sadly I've since repurposed yet another miniPC I have (this one that I had built for tinkering) to run OPNsense... the VM was constantly crashing, and I can't have that lol.

[@alex.prodigy]

Congrats Christian , well deserved 👏

[@christianlempa]

Thank you so much :)

[@EvilGeolog]

Congratulations with your son, Christian! Take care of your family. From Russia with love.

[@christianlempa]

Thank you 🙏

[@acollins319]

First thing I bought was rack studs and it was the best decision ever!

[@christianlempa]

Oh yeah they're amazing :D

[@mrsharps]

Congrats Christian!

[@christianlempa]

Thx!

[@thieuson]

Wow I like your webpage, It's so clearly and hmm very nice.

[@christianlempa]

Thx :)

[@gowinfanless]

Pretty cool, I like such professional video for homelab networks.

[@christianlempa]

Thank you 🙏

[@gowinfanless]

@@christianlempa My pleasure,I hope a chance that you could review the R86S-U4 model as a super strong homelab firewall router.

[@reneb5222]

Hi Christian. Congrats and well deserved. I am also changing to vlan networking. I am also installing an Enterprise wireless access point. Buying a Netgear Wax-630E for it. Has multiple SSIDs so I can split IoT etc

[@christianlempa]

Thank you so much! Seems like an interesting project :)

[@hanvandewal917]

Hallo Christian, amazing and interesting. Making my first steps and trying to find a way to structure things. My suggestion for a topic would be to put all subjects in perspective to each other and your view why one solution is preferable to you compared to an alternative. Something like why use Portainer instead of Rancher, why use Kubernetes even for a small home lab, why Ansible. Ofcourse running things is fun and experiment, but also looking for a 'bang-for-the-buck.' Tschuess bus Holland.

[@christianlempa]

Hey thank you! There will be more videos coming out these topics; I recently made one about Kubernetes Management Tools where I compared Rachner and Portainer and some others, you might check it out :) 'kzbin.info/www/bejne/iGGrnX2pqsyCd6c

[@Krautmaster86]

btw. Die sparsamste brauchbare NAS HW die ich rumliegen hab ist ein Quad Pentium passiv Board, zusammen mit einer übel trivialen 10x SATA PCIE Delock Karte. Das braucht mit PSU und SATA Controller und zwei SSDs etwa 12-14W aus der Dose. (Pico PSU 120W in dem Fall, mit 12 Platten dann aber eher ein 300W Gold PSU)

[@Cucaracha_512]

Smart home is usefull when you know why it should be smart. 1) On the kitchen it is cool to turn on lights or music by voice - your hands are often durty 2) Every thing may be turned on for some time or at curtain time - fan in closet, heater, AC, etc And of course power of smart home is in scenarios: 1) I really like scenario "good bye" - it turns off almost everything (i don't even should think about what i've forgot) 2) Scenario "hello, i'm home" - turns on some lights and maybe something else 3) When you ready to sleep - no need to run all your house to turn off everything. Just say it! 4) If you have guests - don't ask "what movie or music you want?" they can say it by themselves 5) If you have a paranoia about your iron - you can use smart plug and always see it's turned on or off) AND of course remote access to your home and all your smart devices - it's cool and comfortable!

[@christianlempa]

Couldn't agree more!

[@ez_krk]

"home assistant" = raspberry pi's & arduino = IoT & sensors 🔥

[@solverz4078]

Please do a video on central user management and integrating this into all your apps and storage server ☺

[@christianlempa]

Maybe this would be a good one for my windows server, but we’ll, need to get other stuff done first!

[@solverz4078]

@@christianlempa yes good idea, and you could integrated authentik or keycloak too for SSO Can't wait for this video!

[@ronm6585]

Thank you.

[@christianlempa]

You're welcome!

[@Vardash]

Ich habe vor ein paar Tagen angefangen Home Assistant in mein Homelab zu integrieren, das macht sau viel Spaß hat aber auch einen Hacken, es macht süchtig :)

[@christianlempa]

Nice! Bin mal gespannt wie das bei mir funktioniert

[@elmestguzman3038]

Congratulations on the +100K subscribers!!!

[@christianlempa]

Thank you 🙏

[@trexgamer73]

Well done on 100.000!

[@christianlempa]

Thank you 😊

[@DominikZalewski85]

Have you considered "tiny mini pc" like Lenovo ThinkCentre M70q or Dell Optiplex 3080 with Core i5-10500T . They are very small and don't use as much power as DIY server. That i5 cpu has 6C/12T and supports up 64GB of ram so its perfect for Proxmox :)

[@tigerscott2966]

Incredible! Iam using Linux Kodachi for now... I still haven't found a server yet... I don't like Ubuntu period... I have Kali Linux, but it will take time to learn it...thanks.

[@a1ufaso1a]

Love this 🙌🏽

[@christianlempa]

Thx! :)

[@visghost]

Smart home, easy to integrate into Home Assistant

[@pratahsinnetamby]

Great video. If you're going into IoT have a good look at Home Assistant - it really is an exciting open source product and as you are well experienced in configurations etc., it will suit you well. It does help rationalising the number of hubs/ networks you end-up using. I currently use promox and TrueNAs as you do. However, I setup a proxmox cluster with 2 nodes. Currently I use 1 node for TrueNAS running on a VM but I could add more VM on that node. I'm not sure if that was the smartest thing to do as it probably is more efficient running of bare metal. But similar to you, it's all about the experimentation and I was keen to have a proxmox cluster where I could possibly end up with HA across multiple servers (nodes).

[@christianlempa]

Thank you and great setup man !

[@wchorski]

home assistant: one of us, one of us, one of us]

[@homemedia4325]

Thank you for your content... I recently got a couple of managed switches and still have yet to break my network/internet into the way I want... it has been on my "to-do" list for around 3 months now... it is like "it is not broke - so why fix it?" - however... I can only imagine the broadcast traffic I am sending wirelessly to a friend 1Km away that uses my setup for their internet (via a pair of TP-Link dishes) on the same subnet as everything (home lab without DMZ)... bahaha... Here is to continued learning with you!! Many thanks :)

[@christianlempa]

Thank you so much :)

[@ChrisValcke]

Home asistant rules!! great community and not to expensive to populate (even IKEA stuff works :))

[@christianlempa]

Absolutely!!

[@addwithdiy422]

I have a rack and I had custom rack made from Etsy for my smaller smarthome hubs

[@Janiboy94]

It would be helpful to see how you „chained“ your firewall behind your general DSL or cable router/modem. Can you explain this a bit more ? :)

[@vijeyparthasarathy]

Nice video and good information in the video... Excellent

[@christianlempa]

Thank you :)

[@johnnyvandenelzen2250]

Awesome video Christian! I do not know what hypervisor you use and I probably don't have to tell you this, because you seem way more knowledgeable than me. But I use ESXi and it is really accessible to virtual switching which makes it easy to introduce new VLAN's to your network. If you have your logical infrastructure on point then it should really not be that hard to do this? Unless you have a really complex dependency spaghetti?

[@RajaseelanGaneswaran]

Awesome setup!

[@christianlempa]

Thx! :)

[@technikfuzzie]

Hello Christian, great videos you make. Bosch as home automation is not a good idea. You should take a look at HomematicIP in combination with the Raspberrymatic. As a tip from a network nerd, look at Mikrotik in the area of routers, switches and Wifi, they are great, I have been using them since the end of the 90's. Many thanks for your videos. Jan

[@christianlempa]

Thanks buddy! I will soon take a look at homeassistant to replace my bridges, we will see how that goes 😂 Btw I can just recommend taking a look at Sophos for networking stuff, we‘re not bad :)

[@varunjain3870]

Hello Christian. I am running vmware Esxi 7 Update3 (dual boot with MacOS Mojave) on my Mac mini 2018 with Core i7 8700B and 64 GB RAM. I have to tell you that this pretty portable ESXI server that is currently running 12 high spec VMs to provision 2 Kubernetes cluster with Portworx and Ceph Storage Clusters. There are many limitations using ESXI with MAC as they do not support USB Passthrough and even internal storage but It still gets the work done.

[@christianlempa]

Nice, sounds interesting! Haven’t tried that out with an older Mac mini

[@ismailhamzah5024]

congrats!

[@christianlempa]

Thx!

[@bertnijhof5413]

Great home lab, but somewhat expensive :) I am a thrifty Dutchman living in Santiago de los Caballeros. I have an extremely cheap home-lab. First my network: I use an ISP router (50/10 Mbps) and my >10 year's old TP WiFi Router connected to the ISP router. For security I changed user-id and password, it is closed for inbound traffic and it only accepts admin access from the MAC address of my laptop or desktop. It runs Wifi at 135Mbps and Ethernet at 100Mbps. Wifi is fine for phones and my Smart TV, but I've added a 5 port Ethernet switch ($12) at 1 Gbps for the PCs. Now my PCs: Note that all storage is based on OpenZFS 2.1.4 (lz4 compressed). - a $349 Ryzen 3 2200G from April 2019; 16GB DDR4 (3000MHz); 512GB SP nvme (3400/2300MB/s); a $36 xTech Midi Tower Combo (600W; 24 pin; 4 pin; 2 SATA and 2 IDE plugs :) :) ). Reused leftovers are: 2TB HDD supported by a 128GB SSD as cache (L2ARC). Running a minimal install of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. - a $250 off-lease HP Elitebook 8460p from end 2011 bought in April 2017; Intel i5-2520M; 8GB DDR3; 2TB HDD. Running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. - an ancient Pentium 4 based on the remains of a 2003 HP d530 SFF, now in a Compaq Evo Tower with Win 98SE activation sticker. It has 5 leftover HDDs (2 IDE; 3.5"; 250+320GB; 2 SATA-1; 2.5"; 320+320GB and 1 USB2; 3.5"; 500GB). Running FreeBSD 13.1. Since March 2010 I'm a collector of Virtualbox VMs, so I have all Windows releases from 1.04 (1987) till 11 Pro (2022) and all Ubuntu LTS Releases, the first 4.10 and my first 5.04. I have divided my hobby and work over 6 main VMs running from OpenZFS on the nvme-SSD. Those VMs are: - Xubuntu 22.04 LTS (communication apps), boot time ~7 seconds; - encrypted Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (financial stuff) with the latest stable snaps for Firefox and LibreOffice; - Ubuntu Studio 20.04 LTS for multimedia; - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS for experiments and app try-outs; - Windows 11 Pro, just in case; - Windows XP Home to play the wma copies of my LPs and CDs with WoW and TrueBass effects. XP is installed and activated March 2010 and it survived 3 desktops and 4 CPUs! Note the desktop is backed up weekly (send | ssh receive) to laptop and Pentium 4, so on the road I have on my laptop exactly the same up-to-date VMs and data as on my desktop :) Note that in Ubuntu 16.04 I succeeded in collecting all functions hated by the usual fanatics: Unity; Snaps and Ubuntu Pro :) :)

[@christianlempa]

Thanks! Yeah it's quite expensive, I was lucky to get some of this stuff from my employer, so that makes it a bit more reasonable.. but still... it's crazy :P

[@Krautmaster86]

Läuft bei dir Christian. Finde die meisten Firmen scheitern an sowas wie internationales SW Deployment über PXE aus jedem Netzwerk hinzubekommen. Wäre mal interessant was da gerade so State of the Art ist, also bei Windows denn was anderes kommt bei 99% der Firmen nicht auf die Clients

[@vikingcat794]

Rack studs are the way! ;)

[@christianlempa]

This is the way xD

[@arial7]

Quick question: How did you manage to enable Bridge mode on your Vodafone FB? I cannot find a setting for it and adding another layer of NAT seems dumb

[@christianlempa]

There is a setting for „exposed host“, which will forward all ports to the WAN port of the firewall. However it is a dual NAT

[@pproba]

12 degrees celcius lowest SSD temperature? Were you running this in front of an open window at night? I'm actually interested in your HDD temperatures. If I remember it correctly from your storage server video, you're using BeQuiet fans, correct? Have you thought about replacing them by models which can produce a higher static pressure?

[@legendaryz_ch]

I started my smart home with 2 radiator thermostat. today I have lights temperature&humidity window sensors and plugs connected aswell lol expansions already planned.

[@christianlempa]

Nice! XD

[@legendaryz_ch]

@@christianlempa and yes i can feel the addiction

[@alonzosmith6189]

Congrats

[@christianlempa]

Thx :)

[@Jalilk8s]

Nice network, Will you be adding new network devices like what? Fortigate, Palo also, cisco,

[@christianlempa]

Thanks! Probably not, I might look into UniFi though

[@sebastianmolitor4827]

Great Video again. Trank you for all your motivating videos. Ist would be great in you can do a video about how you access you self hosted stuff from outside. Do you run a reverse proxy face to the Internet ( Iam Share you do 😊) on Kubernetes on one of your docker hosts? And so on. I currently struggling how I should make my self hosted stuff accessible. I understood (hopefully) that Teleport is your way you access your homelab for administrative tasks. Thanks a lot Sebastian

[@christianlempa]

There will be more videos about these topics in the future :)

[@canadianwildlifeservice8883]

nice XGS 2100. Are you still running the XG home version on it? I ask because that is a nice rack unit and I would love to eventually migrate to an actual sophos unit but I wan't sure if the LED panels on the Sophos appliances function with the home ISO, which would be a nice added touch. Also, I'm nit-picking here, but it's disappointing that the Sophos Firewall does not have monitoring for UPS battery backups like the UTM does, which I have used in the past. It looks like one thing you are missing from your setup is a nice UPS with the monitoring software that could run on a Windows VM in proxmox. :)

[@canadianwildlifeservice8883]

EDIT: I didn't notice that you have an XGS model. I was thinking of the XG 125/135 which do not have the LED display.

[@TimRiker]

Why do you run both a FreeNAS and a Proxmox server? What features are missing from Proxmox such that it's not the choice for both storage and VM? I installed my Proxmox instance on a ZFS raid 1 ssd and generally host the VM and LXC boot images there,. and then the large data on a separate ZFS raid drive. Perhaps you should consider running Proxmox directly on your current FreeNAS server and then clustering the Proxmox instances? Why do you use VMs instead of LXC images? LXC seems to be a more efficient solution for Linux apps. VMs are still needed for things like your Windows instance. Thanks for the tour!

[@christianlempa]

So many questions, I don’t know which one to answer first 😖

[@user-dp8sf7kh5z]

To be curious, Why didn't you went with a cloud solutions., All these products seems much costlier....!

[@lightshark8562]

You mentioned the high electricity cost... So what does a Rack like this consume and how much does it cost per month/year/day

[@gabrielegaetanofronze6690]

Hey Christian, great video as always! The amount of detail, information and new approaches you share in your videos is just 🤯 I know you don’t want to move away from proxmox, but with my company we are about to launch a new kvm-based hypervisor we call AtomOS. While sporting the most capable software-defined hardware platform (full support for CPU ISA extensions and reworked PCIe passthrough support), it enables anyone running a VM off it on on-prem servers to move it to basically any external cloud provider with little to no effort and in a transparent way. And it runs on a Pentium IV, just to tell something about compatibility 😅 We would be more than happy to let you test it. Just let me know and keep going with this awesome channel!

[@christianlempa]

Thank you so much! Currently I don’t have much time to test out new things :( but you can send me a mail and get in touch

[@mistakek]

Congrats on 100K subs, and nice homelab 👍 What video card do you have in your storage server? How do you have 10Gb, HBA, and graphics, as the 3600 doesn't have integrated graphics?? I'm looking to upgrade my proxmox server and plan to virtualise trunas, and want 10Gb, but there's just not enough PCIE lanes available for HBA, 10Gb, and video card, unless I get a less powerfull Ryzen 5000 series G cpu with integrated gpu. 7000 Ryzen is still a large bump in price but would work perfectly.

[@christianlempa]

Thank you so much! I've booted the server without the 10Gb network card, installed everything, and then booted without the graphics card. Maybe I'll upgrade it with an intel CPU in the future, I'm not so convinced of AMD anymore.

[@mistakek]

@@christianlempa So your system works without a GPU? I didn't think that would work. I may have to experiment, as that would solve my issues. The new AMD cpu's look amazing for a proxmox setup. Not sure how proxmox would handle the new big little intel cpu's though. Thanks for replying :)

[@ponchobob]

Jaja, klein fängt man an und zack, hat man so einen Schrank zu Hause stehen :D

[@christianlempa]

That escalated quickly 🤣

[@gurudaki]

Great work Christian. Are you self taught to all these brilliant contents you provide us?

[@christianlempa]

Thank you! Most of my knowledge is self taught :)

[@gman2369]

Great job on your video!! What do you use for your DNS server. Also, I am interested on what you are using for storage for the virtual machines and docker containers (ex. Longhorn, Ceph).

[@christianlempa]

Thanks! I've recently made a video about my DNS server bind, maybe check that out :)

[@istvanharaszti4806]

Your homelab looks very good, Christian, but I have a question, how come you are not using CheckMK for monitoring in Germany? 😮

[@christianlempa]

Hmm I didn’t know this tool yet to be honest :P

[@dagnachewa1]

Amazing setup, is your server room sound proof ? Have you considered soundproof rack caboinet ?

[@christianlempa]

Thanks! :) The noise of all devices is quiet enough that I don’t need a soundproof rack or room, when the door is closed I don’t hear anything

[@yvesgrunwald3346]

Sind das da etwa Patch-LWL-Kabel zwischen Switch und Router? Wir haben noch gelernt, eine Mindestlänge von 2m einzuhalten, damit nicht durch die kurzen Laufwege Signalstörungen entstehen 😆

[@christianlempa]

Bisher hab ich keine Probleme feststellen können.

[@aadiveerdosanjh4711]

Is 6 core cpu enough for running multiple 4 core VMs

[@andydtoma]

Why upgrade your proxmox when you can add a second server and build a cluster?

[@christianlempa]

Two servers would mean 2x power consumption. The new CPU should be more powerful and more efficient.

[@marcialmota1165]

@@christianlempa, I like your European way of thinking, very conscious.

[@Camhin1]

@@marcialmota1165 More like the price of power has gone through the roof way of thinking.

[@jardelainen8278]

You should check out home assistant

[@christianlempa]

Thx, I’ll do!

[@daniela3353]

Do you have a diagram of your topology? Would be great to see a high overview of how everything connects.

[@christianlempa]

I'll do a new diagram once I refactor my network, currently it's not properly outlined.

[@etienne4403]

Nice video. Good equipment. The Sophos XGS 2100 is about €2,000 or so. Not overkill For a homelab? Is it that much better than a netgate/pfsense of a few hundred euros?

[@christianlempa]

Well I got it for free so that’s why I’m using it xD and yeah it’s a good system indeed

[@beprivatecdblind7831]

Hi Christian, I find your channel very interesting. I have a question that I was hoping you might be able to help with. I was using an old PC case for my NAS box running TrueNAS scale on an AMD4 Ryzen 5 2600. I recently purchased a server case to put the NAS into so I could put it into my rack, the case came with 4 centre fans installed on a PCB with a molex connector and an 8 pin connector, I am thinking the 8 pin connector is for the fan controller, each on the individual fan plug into a 4 pin connect on the PCB. I am unable to find an 8 pin fan controller and I am not sure, if i could it would be compatable with the fan controller on my motherboard any way being it is a consumer MB. Do you have any advice, did your case come with fans, what sort of fan controller do you use? Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.

[@christianlempa]

Thanks mate :) I’m not sure about what this 8 pin connector should be. You might think about replacing it with a different fan controller where you connect your fans directly to. That’s usually how I do it.

[@maxime_vhw]

Sad to see we lost one to the dark side.

[@aceace6001]

would you do this for someone if they pay you? Like have it setup and everything and shipped ?

[@alexanderlavoie5461]

I use Windows, and i have no apple products. I primarily use my PC for basic wed browsing, and a lot of gaming. I have zero intentions of using any apple products myself. But anytime people as me whatthey should get for a laptop I almost always point them to a MacBook. I simply just make the best mobile computers and its not even close

[@chebrubin]

Why not Windows Server 2022 Standard? If you can get a Student Azure download?

[@GianvitoFerrara]

Shouldn't cost less (considering also the electricity cost) rent a dedicated server somewhere in EU?

[@christianlempa]

That's a tough topic, depends on what you'd like to achieve. It probably depends all on the electricity bills and requirements.

[@felixlahnsteiner]

Are you providing storage for docker volumes with nfs-shares, also for dbms like sqlite3, postgres, redis, mariadb or mysql? is this a reliable solution and even possible?

[@christianlempa]

Haven’t had any issues with that, but I tend to avoid running the databases with an nfs volume.

[@dryounas]

Hello. Are you not running truenas virtualized via proxmox anymore? did you run into problems?

[@christianlempa]

No problems so far, but I wanted to build a bigger separate storage machine

[@Superturisto]

Hay, what do you think about Openstack particularly MicroStack as a home lab server/

[@christianlempa]

No idea

[@DOOM11777]

Do you plan to film the network changes?

[@christianlempa]

Sure there will be some content about that

[@globalkrisus]

You didn't say anything about backup power. You have a backup internet provider and you don't have any ups?

[@globalkrisus]

This is also a good topic for an episode. Automatic shutdown of the entire environment in the event of a power outage.

[@christianlempa]

Absolutely! I don't have it today, but I'm thinking about it, maybe in the second half of this year.

[@legendaryz_ch]

xDSL and Cable suck haha. Had both of them and now I got Fiber (I know German government retards don't know about Fiber and Internet in general...) and it disconnected once the last half year and that was due to an OLT Software upgrade on provider side at 4 am...

[@christianlempa]

That’s what you get in Germany xD

[@legendaryz_ch]

@@christianlempa yeah at my moms house which is located in a decent sized village in Germany they get 8Mbit/s ADSL lmaooooo. just sad and one of the reasons I moved to Switzerland

[@fishofthepeople]

This is not a homelab. It's a lab you run at home

[@3enni_]

Which case are you using for your storage server?

[@christianlempa]

A case from Inter-Techm you'll find it on my Kit Page!

[@3enni_]

@@christianlempa Thank you!

[@evkonoff]

Overkill is what we do here

[@christianlempa]

+1 !