An Inside Look at My Homelab: Servers, Storage, and Rack Setup

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

To the left is Verizon's Optical Network Terminal (ONT)

• 1/1gb fiber internet

• CAT 6 to MDF

Router

• Ubiquiti Dream Machine SE

• 3.5gb routing capable

• 8 POE ports

• 10gb SFP+ port

• 2.5gbe WAN port

Switching

Switch 1

• Unifi US-48-500w

• 48 POE ports

• 2-10gb SFP+

• 2-1gb SFP

Switch 3

• TP-link TL-SX1008

• 8-10/5/2.5/1gb switch

• provides multi-gig to desktops around the house

Switch 2

• USW-Aggregation

• 8-10gb SFP+

• Core switch with 10gb to all servers, switches, and router

Compute

3 Dell PowerEdge R630 1U Servers, running VMware ESXI 7.0.3

All 3 are the same spec for HA. They have 2-Intel Xeon E5-2630L v3 (8-core/16-thread each) and 128gb of DDR4 RAM. In terms of the cable everything is nice and neat in the cable management arms white is iDRAC, and black is a 10gb DAC to each node

Storage

For Storage I have a Dell PowerEdge R520 server, which is equipped with two 6-core low power Intel Xeons and 196GB of 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.