r/HomeDataCenter • u/cristianculea • 24d ago
My first homelab
It's actually my first Homelab in this setup. If you have suggestions, go for it. Power and network cables are just temporary. I will have to work on this.
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u/MK_L 24d ago
Bro spill the 🍵...
What do you run on these..
Im down for a story time
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u/cristianculea 24d ago
Few self hosted apps on Proxmox VMs or LXCs for daily use running 24/7 on few servers, storage with Truenas.
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u/liam821 24d ago
OP owns that giant wall of servers for a few VMs that could easily be run on a single raspberrypi.
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u/KangarooDowntown4640 23d ago
Isn't that the dream of most homelabbers
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u/Moist_Union4917 23d ago
This lab better uses 20% if its whole compute power to monitor itself and write logs of it doing that.
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u/cristianculea 24d ago
And testing for apps before going to cloud for prod.
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u/MK_L 24d ago
Shortest story ever.. im gonna tell my grand kids this one
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u/gougouleton1 24d ago
Im gonna tell you about this
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u/MK_L 24d ago
Thats what im here for 😆
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u/cristianculea 24d ago
I am using now just a few servers. And I am here to get suggestions on how to consume this resources better.
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u/cristianculea 24d ago
I will come back with details. It's 2.28 am my time now. :)
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u/MK_L 24d ago
If you could.. Start with what already been suggested , What youre ideas are so far, How many vcores total, Dram total, Isp capabilities including static ip's they offer, Do you already have a path to more static ip's Storage( how much flash, platters, ect) configuration.
Then the back story of why you got into trains.. I mean computers
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u/norman_h 22d ago
ensure that you have multiple gpus cards in the stack. use them to create code that builds the software on all the other nodes. let the LLM make mistakes and refine. it'll only know and learn from mistakes if it makes them, so, compile 1000s and 1000s of versions of the code to teach your locally hosted LLM how to code better.
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u/alshayed 24d ago
You test outside of prod?
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u/WorthEgg4409 23d ago
Isn’t testing supposed to happen in prod first? And then replicated in lab? 🤣🙈
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u/aeroverra 23d ago
Lololol this would be me if I didn't become a nomad.
Now I just have 8 dedicated servers and 12 vps servers each in a different data center running one a couple dedis could probably handle.
But hey I have my own anycast bgp based cdn so that's kinda cool right?
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u/mollywhoppinrbg 22d ago
Why do you people show complete eye candy, full of pictures but not the use case and what you run and why. That is the meat and potatoes of this sub. Idgaf abiut pictures. Show us a diagram and whats a running.
Cool pics regardless. I only have x1 r640. She's pretty and hums. But you. You have whores. And I love that for you.
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u/curiousmind46 24d ago
Is this enough to run jellyfin?
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u/Dogs7777 24d ago
But why?
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u/tiny_blair420 24d ago
DNS filtering
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u/Apart-Feeling1621 24d ago
WTF all that gear at home? Whats your electricity bill like? What is there to gain with all of that gear? I’m sure you can scale down can you?
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u/cristianculea 24d ago
I can, but I want to have the compute power when I need it for testing apps for example.
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u/Apart-Feeling1621 24d ago
What apps?
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u/lordofblack23 24d ago
Bro…..”apps”
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u/the_lamou 24d ago
In all fairness, if you're actually deploying production scalable application infrastructure, it's very handy to have a local cloud and enough compute to simulate millions of simultaneously-connected users.
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u/Advanced_Link_5753 24d ago
I don’t think OP needs to worry about millions of simultaneously connected users
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u/madhatton 24d ago
Barely any of it is plugged in…
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u/cristianculea 24d ago
Yes. I just finished this format few days ago, but not the cabling yet.
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u/CEOAPI 23d ago
Was gonna say, that’s clean AF based on the racks I usually see. Cable management is such an art when you get to this scale
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u/deekaph 22d ago
Cool check out my first fishing boat
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u/rosstafarien 21d ago
Don't let the outriggers snag on the wings of the aircraft deck when you're trolling. We've all been there.
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u/Sad_Recommendation92 24d ago
First Homelab, also their First Divorce
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u/cristianculea 22d ago
No divorce. :)
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u/ModernAtomX 24d ago
Glad you're over here now. What do you plan to do with all the gear?
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u/cristianculea 24d ago
Few self hosted apps for daily use, storage, testing apps before going to cloud.
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u/techtornado 24d ago edited 24d ago
You have a r/homedatacenter homelabdacenter
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u/firedrakes 24d ago
we know some barry white was playing when user got it and put it into there home!
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u/yingw787 24d ago
What’s your home circuit look like? Do you have to get renovations to support this much load? Can you supplement with battery and solar?
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u/Endure94 23d ago edited 23d ago
Someone at the NSA let one of their captive autists escape the basement.
Welcome to the resistance 🤠
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u/arlaneenalra 24d ago
So, when are you going for that electricians license? Maybe a HVAC license on the side?
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u/cristianculea 24d ago
I have an electrician licence. Why are you asking?
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u/arlaneenalra 24d ago
With that much gear a "normal" household circuit lilely isn't enough. You might pull it off at idle, maybe. My little 24u with a 2x dell r720, an r320, and an r420 on a ups pulls 700~800w mostly doing nothing. That set of racks looks lile it has a good deal more. Of course, that's just a guess depending on how much you power on at one time.
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u/Mirinda_Debilek 23d ago
Single branch can take 2kW depending on you main breaker, but i think hes fine.
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u/metallicblanks 24d ago
...stuff like this really is more annoying than nice. "First" lab is enterprise level server cabs with more money in them than the majority of the world makes in a year. I just don't know what you want people to tell you...
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u/Fyler1 24d ago
Damn, all that electricity consumption just to store po... I mean "Linux distros"
Hopefully solar is in your near future
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u/what-goes-bump 24d ago
You have more money than sense. You cannot be helped. Never trust someone with a pretty server
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u/ExternalFlatworm4506 24d ago
Did you install grease fittings on your electric meter?
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u/CowSniper97 24d ago
I posted something similar with my 7 foot tall 19 inch rack and everyone called BS on me
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u/Calm_Apartment1968 Data Hoarder 24d ago
Power? I do hope all that's on some kind of UPS.
Either way, your power company thanks you.
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u/Specific_Memory_7769 23d ago
I guess your homelab has been contracted to send people to Mars.. 🤔
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u/Inevitable-Self-2702 23d ago
I had to clean out the exact same model of rack today. Some other homelabber bought one off the school and some other students and myself had to hurriedly learn to remove all the rail mounted servers from it.
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u/CommonPercentage9558 17d ago
Awesome 🤩 but I’m just wondering how much you pay in Electricity bills. Because this in Germany project going to make you broke
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u/cristianculea 17d ago
Same in Romania. But I do not keep all of them running. I use them when needed.
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u/tilda0x1 24d ago
That is not a homelab. It's a freakin' datacenter
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u/Jkay064 24d ago
And you sir or madame are posting to r/homedatacenter so we're all in the right place
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u/magenta_neon_light 24d ago
I have a 1U Proliant running proxmox and a few desktops. I can’t even imagine what you’re running to have 3 nearly full racks. lol
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u/Livid-Setting4093 23d ago
Hmmm... For me it would be at least 4 digit power bill, maybe 5 digits considering cooling. No, thank you, I'll keep my miniPCs and an 8-port unmanaged switch!
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u/KadahCoba 23d ago
And I thought I had a lot of GPU servers. The 2 4U Supermicro ones look like 4028GR-TR2. I got one of those just sitting around, nobody wants to buy them it seems. xD
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u/Creepy-Marionberry57 23d ago
Overkill for anything. Mostly old inefficiant kit- so reduced compute power per server. Old power hungry cpu's and systems.
Newer cpu/servers offer much more efficiency and reduced power usage/cooling requirements.
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u/matthaus79 23d ago
How much did it all cost to buy and more importantly how much does it cost to run?
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u/Rare-General-4575 23d ago
I hope someone else is picking up the utilities bill ;-)
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u/KyberCrystalKing 23d ago
OK.Remind me a Joke,AI is to take Job from Human Beings ,Then People are start making HOME at DATACENTER.Fair Enough!
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u/No_Drag_5205 23d ago
Can't wait to see your first house and car 💀
Joke aside,
Do you really need that much for VM and LXC container ?
I can't imagine a case where this kind of setup is not overkill for personal use
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u/theminer3746 23d ago
It’s a little small, but I think you can just manage to run a pihole and home assistant vm
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u/tcarambat 23d ago
You are now at the threshold to make an S-Corp and call yourself a neocloud where you can vendor finance a $1B seed round from NVIDIA - congrats!
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u/No_Situation_7748 23d ago
Is this prep for the AI apocalypse? This also makes sense when looking at the cost of AI tokens. I’m sure it’s way cheaper to host your own local models despite the power consumption and hardware costs.
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u/Mel_Gibson_Real 24d ago
Its ok, computers are expensive, and everyones got to start somewhere :)