{"id":41,"date":"2021-12-11T00:19:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T05:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.phillyt3chguy.org\/?p=41"},"modified":"2021-12-11T00:21:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T05:21:21","slug":"this-is-my-homelab-the-short-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phillyt3chguy.org\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"This is my homelab &#8211; The short version"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phillyt3chguy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/homelab.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"39\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.phillyt3chguy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/homelab.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.phillyt3chguy.org\/?attachment_id=39\" class=\"wp-image-39\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.phillyt3chguy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/homelab.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.phillyt3chguy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/homelab-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Router\/Firewall:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HP T730 8GB RAM\/16GB SSD with a Quad Gig Ethernet Intel I340 running PFsense for Firewall\/VLANS\/Routing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I originally had PFsense running as a VM, but couldn\u2019t get HA working between two VMs, and didn\u2019t have my iSCSI box up and running yet, and I wanted to be able to run updates on my VM hosts without killing the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have OpenVPN running for when I am away that is tied in with AD and RADIUS .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Switch:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aruba 2500-48T<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wanted an inexpensive but good and capable switch with a bunch of gigabit ethernet ports that can do SFP+. Shared storage between my VMware hosts and my TrueNAS iSCSI setup runs over the 10Gig interfaces<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VMware Hosts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 Dell Optiplex 9020 Minitowers each with an Intel i5 Quad Core processor, 32GB of RAM, 1TB Internal SSD, 2TB Internal HDD, Intel I340 Quad Ethernet, and a Mellanox Connect-X2 SFP+. vSphere 6.7 U3 cluster (Yay VMUG).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Onboard Intel ports used to separate management access. 2 of the 4 ports on the I340 are teamed for LAN, while the one is for DMZ access and one was for WAN when I was using the .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Storage goes over the Mellanox Connect-X2 SFP+ cards with Molex DAC cables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I originally used the Internal SSDs and HDDs for a mix of fast storage and slow storage (I didn\u2019t know, much less attempt at doing a Starwinds or VMware vSAN setup), but I decided to go shared iSCSI storage to be able to easy migrate VMs to different hosts when I need to run updates on hosts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seriously considering replacing the Intel Haswell I5 Quad Cores (4 Cores\/4 Threads) in the 9020s with Intel Haswell Xeon Quad Cores (4 Cores \/ 8 Threads) (which are cheaper than going to Intel Haswell I7 Quad Cores).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TrueNAS iSCSI host:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dell Optiplex 9020 Minitower with an Intel I5 Quad Core processor, 16GB of RAM, four 2TB Hitachi Deskstar 7000 HDDs and a Mellanox Connect-X2 SFP+<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RAID10 setup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>iSCSI setup to share almost 3TB of storage to my VMware hosts over the 10Gig interfaces. Need to eventually get my Office 365 setup done so I can properly email notifications instead of just checking the admin interface once a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wireless (Not pictured):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ruckus R600 Access Point (running Unleashed firmware)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because I didn\u2019t want to be like everyone else and run Ubiquiti. Run a few SSIDs separated to specific VLANs for personal Devices, IoT stuff, and Guest Devices. Also, BeamFlex FTW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPS:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>APC SmartUPS 2200 (with a 9617 Network Management Card)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have this connected to a Powerchute network install so that if I lost power, it will tell my VMs to turn off and shutdown my VM hosts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What am I doing with this:<br>Docker\/Kubernettes\/Ansible\/Vmware\/Active Directory\/Gitlab\/Wordpress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Router\/Firewall: HP T730 8GB RAM\/16GB SSD with a Quad Gig Ethernet Intel I340 running PFsense for Firewall\/VLANS\/Routing. Notes: I originally had PFsense running as a VM, but couldn\u2019t get HA working between two VMs, and didn\u2019t have my iSCSI box up and running yet, and I wanted to be able to run updates on my&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyt3chguy.org\/?p=41\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is my homelab &#8211; The short version<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phillyt3chguy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phillyt3chguy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phillyt3chguy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillyt3chguy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillyt3chguy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillyt3chguy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillyt3chguy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phillyt3chguy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillyt3chguy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillyt3chguy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}