Disaster Recovery Site: An Inside Look at My Homelab

Introduction

Welcome to my homelab! In this blog post, I'll be sharing the details of the servers, storage devices, and rack setup that I have in my setup. Whether you're a fellow homelab enthusiast or simply curious about the technology behind it, I hope you find this information interesting and informative.

Internet

• 1000/35mbps cable internet

• RG11 coax feed to IDF then RG6Q to MDF splitter

Router

• Dell PowerEdge R240 OEM

• Intel Xeon E-2144G 4 core 8 thread

• 8gb ECC RAM

Switching

Switch 1 & 2

• Unifi US-48-POE

• 32 POE ports

• 4-1gb SFP

Switch 3

• Cheap Trendnet unmanaged 2.5gb switch

• not in use until I get a 10gb core switch to connect this too because it cant pass vlan traffic through it

Compute

1 Dell PowerEdge R730 2U Server, running VMware ESXI 7.0.3

I don't have an HA or Stretched cluster here its just a single licensed ESXI host running most of the same services as my primary ESXI host. Specs.

• Dell PowerEdge R730

• 8x3.5" hot swap SAS/SATA bays

• 2 Intel Xeon E5-2667 v3 8 core 16 thread each

Storage

For Storage I have a Dell PowerEdge R630 server, which is equipped with two 6-core low power Intel Xeons and 240GB of mixed ECC RAM. Connected to a NetApp DS4243, 24-bay disk shelf

The server is running on TrueNAS Core. The disk shelf consists of 14 10TB SAS drives, organized into two RAID Z1 configurations for improved speed and redundancy. This configuration provides a 117TB usable space. Additionally, the setup allows for two drive failures in separate vDEVs without any data loss.

Also have a couple Unifi flex switches around the house for spots that I only have 1 network drop and I need to connect multiple devices.

In this case this flex switch is powered by POE++ and is capable of powering 2 POE cameras off its other ports.