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Joined 3 years ago
Cake day: July 6th, 2023
  • two wans
  • lots of vlans
  • 32vcpu hypervisor with gpu passthrough
  • 25gbps san running off the nas

Everything I do is mostly with VMs, the hypervisor is diskless pxe booting off the SAN. I’ve been cleaning up my lab, it used to be a plank of wood https://discuss.online/post/44690398

There is a nanokvm hanging off the hypervisor (rs232,atx header, hid) which makes remote rebuilds quite painless. I love my inexpensive nanokvm.

What does your homelab look like?

I’ve had a plank of wood as my computer case for a few years now, easy to move around - good airflow… It has some downsides, looks messy, required me removing the GPU slot coverings so it fit on the wood, and it uses lots of horizontal bench space.

I’ve migrated everything over to a open bench table today! I was able to reattach the GPU slot coverings, I was able to retire my structural chopstick preventing the gpu from falling over on the pci-e riser, and now my riser network card looks less hodgepodge.

So far I like the new case, no blood was lost today, but I did acquire a splinter!

I’m using a nanokvm to validate the computer booting and getting the screen output / mess with bios.

I was moving a shelf, i put it right ontop of a floor om3 cable run… everything was find for about a hour, then i lost signal on the cable and couldn’t re-establish! It’s taken alot of abuse, but I guess a entire bookshelf was a bit too much for it.

Luckily i had some om4 fiber ready, and i re-ran it, but that was fun to debug, i had dangled all my wifi off the fiber run!