Got everything planned out for my home lab, I'm sitting in the library autistically vibrating about getting it all set up. If any of my followers/people in the tag see this and have any advice or thoughts or suggestions please let me know, I want more friends who are into this stuff-
NETWORK SETUP
- Verizon is my ISP and is running on the subnet x.x. 86.1
- Google wifi mesh extenders running on the subnet x.x.87.1.
- Everything on my homelab is hardwired into the Google mesh.
HARDWARE
- My desktop PC that's hardwired into the mesh.
+ It's my daily driver and I'm not using it as part of my homelab.
- 10" 9U network rack with a 12 port patch panel.
- Netgear GS308
- NAS running TrueNAS
+ Manual desktop and photo backups
+ 1TB mirrored pool for manual desktop and photo backups
+ 2TB mirrored pool for media storage (Movies/TV/Music)
- Raspberry Pi 5 8GB
- Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W
- Dell Optiplex 3070 Micro
+ i5 processor and 8GB of RAM and a single 500GB SSD
- HP ProDesk
+ i3 processor and 8GB of RAM and a single 256GB SSD
APPS
- Proxmox (Hypervisor)
- Glance (Dashboard)
- Tailscale (Remote access VPN)
- Plex (Media management)
- Plexamp (Music management)
- A Minecraft server for my LAN
- Docmost (Homelab documentation hub)
- NextCloud (Google Drive replacement)
- Immich (Google Photos replacement)
- Pi-hole (Ad blocker)