christian, thank you so much for featuring me and my homelab! i got those dell computers from my IT job for free so i got pretty lucky i didn't have to spend money on building my proxmox cluster server. i love how quiet and power efficient they are. the gpu in my NAS is used for transoding my plex media, so you're right about that. it's so cool seeing everyone's homelab setup, so definitely make this a series! i can't wait to see more of this and be inspired to upgrade 🤓🫡 let me know if anyone has any questions.
Thanks for reviewing my setup, glad you liked it! The KVM console was not cheap(roughly $1000 USD), but like you, after years of pulling out keyboards and monitors, I wanted an elegant and functional solution and i've never been happier. The patch panel also the same, its way overpriced but it makes moving things around so much easier.
@@mason8714 I wish lol. It costs about $55/month. Not bad considering it hosts nearly every service I use, cutting out expensive subscription costs that would be well over $100/month.
Thank you Christian for featuring my lab. (I submitted the mikrotik one) All devices in the rack a Mikrotik and the small router-switch is also mikrotik. 1. The Led lights in the rack are sonoff light-strip cut to length and placed inside a groove the rack has 2. All core network devices (inside the home are mikrotik) and the Camera Network which gets an IP through PPOE and has firewall rules is actually TP-LINK VIGI. The new lineup of POE Cameras. 3. I submitted the simple, with out description, diagram for security purposes mostly but what I can tell you is that there are multiple vlans and a management one. For a description of devices everything is explained in the description of the post on discord. 4. Because the lab is in my bedroom I try to keep it dead silent, so any device with a fan gets shutdown before sleep (that is why I use RPIs) 5. Yes it is a PS3 🤣 6. The tower server is a HP ML10 which I converted to an editing NAS. ps. The devices are chained at the moment but this is about to change.
@@ArifKamaruzaman xaxa yea. From the early days of gaming. I kept it since it supports plex and its a fantastic blue-ray player. Occasionally I game on it
Hey Christian, somehow you became one of my favorite tech youtubers, your content is amazing! Would you be open to do a video explaining backups and how you should or could implement them and a tool for it (backing up proxmox vms and other data)? I dont know if you have a video like this planned but i think its a great idea and not many youtubers have taken a chance with it. Keep the awesome work man!
The rack servers in the homelab are best when you need lots of PCIe lanes and large quantities of ram. I am running 124 cores and 700gb+ Ram and countless storage.
for my little homelab (I really only have laptops but they aren't on 24/7) when I run it I use debian/raspian with portainer because none of my laptops can run proxmox or anything like that.
Man you should make a series of doing these type videos they are really good to watch Some of these big setups dude, would be a tonne of fun to work with if you could actually utilize them My bet is most of these big setups sit there idling doing almost nothing but its still good to see xD Im really keen to hear stories from some of these guys to see what issues / problems they've across along their journey of building their homelabs
I loved this idea so much! I am planning to get started soon with my channel and I would like to ask you when you're planning to do it again! I have a homelab of my own and I have been running it for over 3 years at this point! Cheers!
Ubiquiti is quite popular in Germany as well, along with Fritz!, TP-Link, Netgear, Mikrotik and DIY solutions running PFsense, OPNsense or Sophos. Price to performance is key. But unlike with Fritz! devices our country of origin is easier to hide on /r/homelab when running Unifi^^
Would love to hear about how people are organizing there power cables in a rack I have a 42 U currently using 30U and my power cable management needs some help!
I couldn't imagine Akwarium30's power bill every month. Those c7000 blade chassis take a lot of power and if you have a fair number of blades in them they pump out a lot of heat. My company uses quite a number of them and at one point the bay lineup had its own overhead dedicated AC system just to keep that line up cooled down. Gen9s are pretty good servers, that whole set up is not cheap. A 256GB or 512GB blade, he's may be setting up a virtualization cluster with those. The blades don't have hard drives in them from the picture. I would love to get my hands on a r730xd to replace my custom built NAS.
I was able to find a used 16 port rack mount KVM console for $230 on Ebay. While not super cheap, it was worth it to just have a compact keyboard and monitor permanently racked in my rack rather than a semi-permanent setup of a keyboard + monitor sitting in my rack (and taking up a whole bunch of rack units with the monitor.)
13:40 You can use HDMI to USB C Capture Card dongle. so you can use your phone as a monitor. sometimes save the day :) p.s. and some vga > hdmi and dp > hdmi elegant dongles
Big Mikrotik fanboy here! They take some getting used to but RouterOS is, in my humble opinion, every bit the powerhouse that other options like pfSense are, just taken in a slightly different (admittedly not as user-intuitive) direction.
my Homelab thus far is one 6 year old 7700K/32 GB/500 GB 960 EVO) with Win10Pro/Hyper-V, a MiniPC (N5105, 16 GB RAM/500 GB SSD) with Win11 Pro/HyperV, and 2 older laptops!
So... is it "micro tick" or "mike rotic" ? I had also assumed it was the tick one... how does everyone else pronounce it? Regardless, I love my CRS317-1G-16S+RM.
Great video, very inspiring! Insane what some people run at home. I just have 2 Rasssbery Pi 4 and a one bay Synology sitting there next to my router. Granted, one of the Pis just has a single mobile 1TB SSD to boot from, but the other one sits in an Argon Eon case with an 4x8TB SSD btrfs raid10, running OMV and a bunch of containers. Not the beefiest setup but very energy efficient and silent. I do not plan to run any VMs there and it is great to play with.
i have never concidered making a homelab until now, but some of the equipment i want to toy with people will likely mock me for due to its age, (eg Pentium 3 Fujitsu Primergy RX100)
@@filda2005 hahaha. Not exactly. All my equipment costs less than 2k and the heimdall is hosted in the RPI-Zero, so if you only had the RPI-Zero I would say around 30 euro.
Just from my own experience: Forget about Ceph in a Proxmox cluster even with 2.5Gbit network. It's not fast enough and if Ceph hangs up you can be in real trouble. For testing purposes it might be ok but def. not for productive required stuff.
Interesting, I personally run all my little apps on a synology with docker. It's low power low size and enough for my needs. I'm more interested by running little apps than the horse power. But I respect all options 😊. What's mater is to have a use for it and pleasure doing it.
I trade power for uptime. When I need to work on any piece of hardware I can simply move my workloads to other machines and not cause an outage in the entire net.
maaaaanannnn MIKROTIK IS TOTALY AWSOME REALL!!! Try it ... that guy with mikrotik ... dude has everything Mikrotik! Total orgasm hehe :D Love that setup (6:30) !!!! Totally awsome ! MAANNNN Love his setup really! 10gbit main core switch ... awsome! Also love the rack with 5 servers and so on .. awsome idea for a video!
kudos to all the homelab submitters! and yeah cable "management" wink wink - @christianlempa I'm sure your cable management was tip top when you started
This is a fantastic idea! +1 from me for doing this every once in awhile.
Thanks! good to know :D
christian, thank you so much for featuring me and my homelab! i got those dell computers from my IT job for free so i got pretty lucky i didn't have to spend money on building my proxmox cluster server. i love how quiet and power efficient they are. the gpu in my NAS is used for transoding my plex media, so you're right about that. it's so cool seeing everyone's homelab setup, so definitely make this a series! i can't wait to see more of this and be inspired to upgrade 🤓🫡 let me know if anyone has any questions.
Last one really said „nothing special“ before showcasing his personal data center lmfao
Thanks for reviewing my setup, glad you liked it!
The KVM console was not cheap(roughly $1000 USD), but like you, after years of pulling out keyboards and monitors, I wanted an elegant and functional solution and i've never been happier.
The patch panel also the same, its way overpriced but it makes moving things around so much easier.
Couldn't it be achieved with a cheaper pikvm?
nice setup. do you get free power :) haha does it cost alot to run all that?
@@mason8714 I wish lol. It costs about $55/month. Not bad considering it hosts nearly every service I use, cutting out expensive subscription costs that would be well over $100/month.
By the way what’s the name of the dashboard that was shown in the video is it homarr or dashy
@@kareemschultz it’s homepage!
Thank you Christian for featuring my lab. (I submitted the mikrotik one) All devices in the rack a Mikrotik and the small router-switch is also mikrotik.
1. The Led lights in the rack are sonoff light-strip cut to length and placed inside a groove the rack has
2. All core network devices (inside the home are mikrotik) and the Camera Network which gets an IP through PPOE and has firewall rules is actually TP-LINK VIGI. The new lineup of POE Cameras.
3. I submitted the simple, with out description, diagram for security purposes mostly but what I can tell you is that there are multiple vlans and a management one. For a description of devices everything is explained in the description of the post on discord.
4. Because the lab is in my bedroom I try to keep it dead silent, so any device with a fan gets shutdown before sleep (that is why I use RPIs)
5. Yes it is a PS3 🤣
6. The tower server is a HP ML10 which I converted to an editing NAS.
ps. The devices are chained at the moment but this is about to change.
Ah that PS3 guy.
@@ArifKamaruzaman xaxa yea. From the early days of gaming. I kept it since it supports plex and its a fantastic blue-ray player. Occasionally I game on it
Hey Christian, somehow you became one of my favorite tech youtubers, your content is amazing! Would you be open to do a video explaining backups and how you should or could implement them and a tool for it (backing up proxmox vms and other data)? I dont know if you have a video like this planned but i think its a great idea and not many youtubers have taken a chance with it. Keep the awesome work man!
happy to see you making content!!!
Great video Christian, loved the content and your commentary.
Thanks
Die HP c7000 von akwarium30 , wenn ich mich gut erinnern kann, ist die größte Blade enclosure. Die haben noch ein c3000 "shorty".
The rack servers in the homelab are best when you need lots of PCIe lanes and large quantities of ram. I am running 124 cores and 700gb+ Ram and countless storage.
Might upload mine once it's ready for prime time.
Thanks for all the help!
for my little homelab (I really only have laptops but they aren't on 24/7) when I run it I use debian/raspian with portainer because none of my laptops can run proxmox or anything like that.
Man you should make a series of doing these type videos they are really good to watch
Some of these big setups dude, would be a tonne of fun to work with if you could actually utilize them
My bet is most of these big setups sit there idling doing almost nothing but its still good to see xD
Im really keen to hear stories from some of these guys to see what issues / problems they've across along their journey of building their homelabs
I'll think about it! Good suggestion man ;)
I loved this idea so much! I am planning to get started soon with my channel and I would like to ask you when you're planning to do it again! I have a homelab of my own and I have been running it for over 3 years at this point! Cheers!
Ubiquiti is quite popular in Germany as well, along with Fritz!, TP-Link, Netgear, Mikrotik and DIY solutions running PFsense, OPNsense or Sophos. Price to performance is key. But unlike with Fritz! devices our country of origin is easier to hide on /r/homelab when running Unifi^^
Interesting
I think the power solutions usually give it away when someone is German on Reddit. 230V, Schuko and energy efficient hardware/setups.
Great video Christian! Thanks for sharing it with us!💖👍😎JP
Would love to hear about how people are organizing there power cables in a rack I have a 42 U currently using 30U and my power cable management needs some help!
I couldn't imagine Akwarium30's power bill every month. Those c7000 blade chassis take a lot of power and if you have a fair number of blades in them they pump out a lot of heat. My company uses quite a number of them and at one point the bay lineup had its own overhead dedicated AC system just to keep that line up cooled down.
Gen9s are pretty good servers, that whole set up is not cheap. A 256GB or 512GB blade, he's may be setting up a virtualization cluster with those. The blades don't have hard drives in them from the picture. I would love to get my hands on a r730xd to replace my custom built NAS.
Wohoo … nice. Thank you for the overview :)
Have you considered being an intertech supplier for the US? I would buy directly from you even with some markup.
I was able to find a used 16 port rack mount KVM console for $230 on Ebay. While not super cheap, it was worth it to just have a compact keyboard and monitor permanently racked in my rack rather than a semi-permanent setup of a keyboard + monitor sitting in my rack (and taking up a whole bunch of rack units with the monitor.)
13:40 You can use HDMI to USB C Capture Card dongle.
so you can use your phone as a monitor.
sometimes save the day :)
p.s. and some vga > hdmi and dp > hdmi elegant dongles
Big Mikrotik fanboy here! They take some getting used to but RouterOS is, in my humble opinion, every bit the powerhouse that other options like pfSense are, just taken in a slightly different (admittedly not as user-intuitive) direction.
Super idea!! I shared my setup but didnt give the spects of my servers... By watching the video, i realized i shoud have!
Do more of this please! I love it :D I also want to share mine now that I have one :P
Maybe we could do another livestream about it, or I show some new pictures in livestreams regularly
Upvoted and Comment here for more in the future!!!
One video topic could be what workload do you have, the last setup in this video need an explanation 🤔
Why isn’t Unifi popular in Germany? Aside from the firewall I would say they are really solid
my Homelab thus far is one 6 year old 7700K/32 GB/500 GB 960 EVO) with Win10Pro/Hyper-V, a MiniPC (N5105, 16 GB RAM/500 GB SSD) with Win11 Pro/HyperV, and 2 older laptops!
You could also make a Homelab Gore video, where people show their worst homelab setups... Mine is currently pretty bad 🤣
So... is it "micro tick" or "mike rotic" ? I had also assumed it was the tick one... how does everyone else pronounce it? Regardless, I love my CRS317-1G-16S+RM.
No idea, but I’m sure I’m pronouncing it wrong… 🤭
Love this type of video!
Great video, very inspiring! Insane what some people run at home. I just have 2 Rasssbery Pi 4 and a one bay Synology sitting there next to my router. Granted, one of the Pis just has a single mobile 1TB SSD to boot from, but the other one sits in an Argon Eon case with an 4x8TB SSD btrfs raid10, running OMV and a bunch of containers. Not the beefiest setup but very energy efficient and silent. I do not plan to run any VMs there and it is great to play with.
Got Fujitsu it's an awesome pc, realy low power thing. 10-30w power consumption
just use solar panels and you wont worry about power consumption that much
not a joke - I ran around ~1000-2000 Watts per hour (20Kw/day) for free when I had solar
well, they don't have sun in germany for example
I have a list of new apps I want to try out. Really interested in the Plex cluster the one person was running.
My lab is 1x libre le potato 2gb lol works pretty well with Jellyfin, want to upgrade to an orange pi 8gb and turn the libre into a pikvm potentially
Nice! If this becames series it will be epic
That kinan console is expensive. but compared to the other stuff its still alot cheaper.
I use the UDM base (r2d2 style), based in Austria
great video, give a lot of ideas, i need to step up my home lab before i summit my picture, jaja
i have never concidered making a homelab until now, but some of the equipment i want to toy with people will likely mock me for due to its age, (eg Pentium 3 Fujitsu Primergy RX100)
sounds amazing bro!
Love it
Thanks :)
Roasting your homelabs next lol 😂
What is that Udemy and Squarespace at 7:57? Just a bookmark to udemy website?
Hi there, The udemy is to remind my self to train more and the squarespace goes directly to the management page of my websites.
so yeah, a bookmark worth 2k$
@@filda2005 hahaha. Not exactly. All my equipment costs less than 2k and the heimdall is hosted in the RPI-Zero, so if you only had the RPI-Zero I would say around 30 euro.
Just from my own experience:
Forget about Ceph in a Proxmox cluster even with 2.5Gbit network. It's not fast enough and if Ceph hangs up you can be in real trouble.
For testing purposes it might be ok but def. not for productive required stuff.
What about 10Gbit then? And NVMEs of course!
I played with ceph, and decided that it was not worth the effort. Having zfs storage with replication was much more reliable.
Great video bro
How many people remember Freenas jails?
Make som video with Mikrotik its perfect !
What home page is Pray4Tre using for monitoring? I'd like to emulate his setup on mine.
Sweet
what are y'all running that you need a cluster of servers? I mean for learning, great, but otherwise seems like a huge waste of energy
yes, I am wasting so much energy. I have 4 optiplex towers running 24/7 in my closet lol
Yes, I need all of these servers for my project. Learning is something like small bonus
Interesting, I personally run all my little apps on a synology with docker. It's low power low size and enough for my needs. I'm more interested by running little apps than the horse power. But I respect all options 😊.
What's mater is to have a use for it and pleasure doing it.
I trade power for uptime. When I need to work on any piece of hardware I can simply move my workloads to other machines and not cause an outage in the entire net.
maaaaanannnn MIKROTIK IS TOTALY AWSOME REALL!!! Try it ... that guy with mikrotik ... dude has everything Mikrotik! Total orgasm hehe :D Love that setup (6:30) !!!! Totally awsome ! MAANNNN Love his setup really! 10gbit main core switch ... awsome! Also love the rack with 5 servers and so on .. awsome idea for a video!
upvote 69, NICE!
kudos to all the homelab submitters! and yeah cable "management" wink wink - @christianlempa I'm sure your cable management was tip top when you started
Haha, yes that's true indeed :D