Posts tagged: homelab

Ever since I got the fiber installed last year, the plan has been to drop the ISP box and plug it straight into my router. That’s why I had the fiber terminated in my patch panel. I’ve been reluctant …

When I began replacing my Unifi switches with MikroTik — I was very impressed with the MikroTik devices. So when I found a CCR1009-7G-1C-1S Core router, second hand, for a reasonable price — there was …

The last month or so I’ve been replacing my Ubiquity Unifi switches. It’s part of a complete network rebuild — more posts will follow… Four years ago; when I first got into the Unifi system, I loved …

I’ve got yet another Inter-Tech rack mountable server case. I really wanted a few hot swappable disk bays in the front, and buying two removable 4-drive backplanes were more expensive than getting a …

A few days ago; sitting outside — drinking coffee and minding my own business, I received an email from my UPS: Utility power not available. 2021/06/01 18:38:27 My homelab had lost both power sources …

I moved my main hypervisor, Alpha, into a new server case; a compact Inter-Tech with 8 hot-swappable bays in the front. I also moved the four SSDs over from the failed ZFS SSD pool project, and this …

One (potential) downside to running public services on your homelab, is that you expose your IP address. That may, or may not, be a problem — but here are ways around it. The simplest way is to put …

This post was suppose to be a “look I made an SSD ZFS pool”, but will instead be the first post in a trouble-shooting series. Trying to get my SSDs to behave. But — I am getting ahead of myself… Let’s …

In our new house there is an 20 m² basement, it consists of two rooms — both 10 m². I have turned the inner room into my new home office/server room, with my electronics lab and homelab.

I’m replacing a disk and and expanding my ZFS 2×RAID-Z2 pool 👇

So we bought a new house — now to disassemble everything and prepare to move!

My file server, Zeta, has an mdadm RAID6 array with eight 4 TB disks. I want to expand, but before doing so I’m going to migrate to ZFS.

I’m using Prometheus to monitor my home office and homelab, I figured it would be cool to have a stack light show the active warnings and alerts from Alertmanager. So I made a HAT (Hardware Attached …

I was quite happy with the previous Inter-Tech case I got, so I decided to get another. This time I got a rack mountable storage case, with 16 hot swap bays, for my file server Zeta. More thoughts and …

I’ve used this case a lot over the years — I first got one back in 2011, for my first rack mountable server. At the most, I had four of these in my homelab rack. They were relatively cheap, and easy …

I recently got a new rack mountable case from Inter-Tech — it was surprisingly cheap 😃 This is going to be the new server case for my hypervisor Alpha. Here are my thoughts, and some photos.

I got a Unifi 16XG switch, it was too loud. I made it quieter using Noctua low-noise adapters.

My homelab and home office got way too hot, time for some proper ventilation.

I’ve got a tiny computer lab at home; a 29U rack with servers, UPS, ATS, PDU, 10 Gbit networking, OPNsense, and all the cool stuff.

After I stopped smoking cigars in the man cave, the ventilation needed to change.

I've had a server rack for many years, but never really gone all in. Well, that changed...

I've recently upgraded the network infrastructure in our house. Went all in with Ubiquiti UniFi, it’s pretty sweet.