What Hardware Do I Have In My Home Lab? December 2021 Edition!
My Hardware
Below you will find a basic network diagram along with a quick spec sheet about the hardware I have in my home lab! At the bottom of this list you can check out my write up about why I use the software I use! (This write-up is a work in-progress)
Home Lab Hardware Specs!
- 2x Raspberry Pi 4 – 8GB
- 1x Raspberry Pi 3B+ – PiAware Host
- Hyze Zeus v2 – Proxmox Host
- E5-2670 v2
- 32GB DDR3-1333 ECC Registered Memory
- 120GB Inland Professional SSD
- 1TB Samsung 850EVO Storage Disk
- HP ProDesk 600 G2 – TrueNAS Core Host
- Intel Core i5 4670K
- 16GB DDR3-1600MHz Memory
- 120GB Inland Professional SSD (Boot Disk)
- 120GB Samsung 750EVO SSD (Write-Cache)
- 8TB Seagate IronWolf Pro
- Dell OEM GT-635 GPU
- Custom Built Server – Game Server Host
- Intel Core i7 4790K
- 16GB DDR3-1600MHz Memory
- 500GB Western Digital Blue SSD
- Zotac GT-1030 GPU
Self-Hosted Software
This is a list with links to all my favorite software that is running inside my Home Lab!
| Software | Purpose | Host Device |
| Proxmox VE + Discord Skin | Virtual Machine Hosting | Hyve Zeus v2 |
| Application Management Panel | Game Server Control Panel | Custom PC |
| PiAware Tracker | Local Aircraft Tracking | Raspberry Pi 3B+ |
| Pi-Hole + Cloudflare DDNS Updater | Local Ad-Blocking + Dynamic DNS | Raspberry Pi 4 8GB |
| Uptime Kuma | Local Lab Monitoring | Raspberry Pi 4 8GB |
| PiVPN + Pi-Hole + Apache + NoIP DUC | VPN Access + Local Ad-Blocking | Virtual Machine |
| TrueNas Core | Local File Sharing | HP ProDesk 600 G2 |
Q: Why Proxmox over VMware vCenter?
A: When setting up my EVE-NG virtual network lab, I needed to allocate more than 8 vCPUs to a single virtual machine. Proxmox lets you do this for free, while VMware wants a paid license key.
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