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    I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs

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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @NerdyDad
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      @nerdydad said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

      We've thought about converting our second closet in the master bedroom into a small media room for this kind of stuff.

      It's a great way to go. Take the effort to sound proof, too.

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        bnrstnr
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        @jt1001001 said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

        wish I had a crawlspace for something like this. I have an attic crawlspaces and it get way to hot in the summer in there for equipment

        When we first moved in after we bought our house we couldn't have put electronics, or anything really, down there. We're in Michigan and it was super nasty in the crawl, freezing cold in the winter and super wet in the summer, not to mention the 4 billion spiders. We sealed off the vents to the outside and completely encapsulated it. Now it stays around 60 degrees and the relative humidity is right around 50%. My son actually likes to play down there now.

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        • AdamFA
          AdamF
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          So I'm curious... Who is doing on premise home labs these days in 2020? I have an R710 that I use for Plex, and other projects. But recently acquired and R630. Maybe its time for an upgrade.

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            bnrstnr @AdamF
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            @AdamF said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

            So I'm curious... Who is doing on premise home labs these days in 2020? I have an R710 that I use for Plex, and other projects. But recently acquired and R630. Maybe its time for an upgrade.

            I'm seriously considering updating my home lab once we move into our new house.

            I keep looking at an HP DL20 G10. I want to move the drives from my super old Synology box to the new server and get rid of my power hungry DL360 G7.

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            • EddieJenningsE
              EddieJennings @AdamF
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              @AdamF said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

              So I'm curious... Who is doing on premise home labs these days in 2020? I have an R710 that I use for Plex, and other projects. But recently acquired and R630. Maybe its time for an upgrade.

              I run VMs on a Dell T420, which is great for an apartment since it's quiet.

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              • NashBrydgesN
                NashBrydges
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                As a result of 2020's dumpster fire of a year, most of my clients ended-up moving to remote, work-from-home operations, many have chosen to move their gear to colo so I've expanded my 1/4 rack to a full rack at a datacenter where I now also host all my "home lab" gear, including Plex server. The lab gear consists of a Dell R720XD-SFF that runs all of my VMs, a Dell R720XD-LFF that hosts a VM file server and a Dell R720XD-LFF as local Veeam backup target. Also have a Dell R420 running Blue Iris for my security cams as home. I only have a Dell R230 running at home for Pi-Hole and NGINX, plus a 2 Synology NAS as a remote backup targets for my colo gear.

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                • JaredBuschJ
                  JaredBusch @AdamF
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                  @AdamF said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

                  Who is doing on premise home labs these days in 2020?

                  I don't home lab. I lab on Vultr most of the time. Make it, test it, delete it.

                  I have an old computer at home running KVM with a small NAS VM and my Plex server. That is not a lab IMO.

                  I have a Server in colo that I can use for a lab, but it is getting so slow (it is a 2012 Dell R510) that I simply use Vultr.

                  Yup slow
                  5091dcad-e63c-49cc-a61c-0cd861faf7d6-image.png

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                  • AdamFA
                    AdamF @NashBrydges
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                    @NashBrydges said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

                    As a result of 2020's dumpster fire of a year, most of my clients ended-up moving to remote, work-from-home operations, many have chosen to move their gear to colo so I've expanded my 1/4 rack to a full rack at a datacenter where I now also host all my "home lab" gear, including Plex server. The lab gear consists of a Dell R720XD-SFF that runs all of my VMs, a Dell R720XD-LFF that hosts a VM file server and a Dell R720XD-LFF as local Veeam backup target. Also have a Dell R420 running Blue Iris for my security cams as home. I only have a Dell R230 running at home for Pi-Hole and NGINX, plus a 2 Synology NAS as a remote backup targets for my colo gear.

                    Nice setup. I am weighing the options of either ditching the server completely and getting something super low power instead. I use my r710 currently for mainly Plex and photo backups.

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                    • AdamFA
                      AdamF @JaredBusch
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                      @JaredBusch said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

                      @AdamF said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

                      Who is doing on premise home labs these days in 2020?

                      I don't home lab. I lab on Vultr most of the time. Make it, test it, delete it.

                      I have an old computer at home running KVM with a small NAS VM and my Plex server. That is not a lab IMO.

                      I have a Server in colo that I can use for a lab, but it is getting so slow (it is a 2012 Dell R510) that I simply use Vultr.

                      Yup slow
                      5091dcad-e63c-49cc-a61c-0cd861faf7d6-image.png

                      Yea, I really only use the current R710 for photo/PC backups and plex. It sits in a closet, makes no noticeable noise to me (in the basement) and uses an amount of power that I don't even notice.

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                      • RojoLocoR
                        RojoLoco
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                        This year, plus getting sick, has shown me that my spare time should be spent making music instead of studying IT stuff. I can do that on the clock (assuming I get to go back to work soon). I enjoy technology and IT stuff, but that's my job, not my true passion. So my "home lab" that is being built this year is for listening to, playing, and creating music. Band practice has been the only light in the year of dark. So here is my home lab, not complete, and suffering from a blown amp on the playback system because I can't physically move the dead one to install the replacement.

                        "DubStation ZED"

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                          scotth @RojoLoco
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                          @RojoLoco I believe that I have one of those wood stereo cabinets if that's what I'm seeing. I've been wanting to convert it to a network rack. Is that what I see with a slide out shelf about 8 inches down from the top?

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                          • RojoLocoR
                            RojoLoco @scotth
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                            @scotth said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

                            @RojoLoco I believe that I have one of those wood stereo cabinets if that's what I'm seeing. I've been wanting to convert it to a network rack. Is that what I see with a slide out shelf about 8 inches down from the top?

                            That is an old JVC stereo cabinet my gf had. It is able to hold standard 19" rack gear (mine has a bunch of analog effects, preamps, amps, etc). This one is a little wobbly when moved, but being full of stuff helps it. A 1u server chassis might stick out the back a little. And I also have my gear bolted to some rack rails that are not attached to the cabinet, that helps stability as well. The slide out shelf is 3u, the bottom part is about 8u. This one has LP storage at the bottom, probably 6u more potential space.

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                              scotth @RojoLoco
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                              @RojoLoco That's the one. My cousin gave it to me about 25 years ago. It has holes inside for metal pins to adjust the shelf(ves) height. Nice.

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                                VoIP_n00b
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                                I've moved everything to the cloud.

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller
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                                  We maintain a large lab because one of the key factors for a home lab is running it over time and the cloud gets expensive for that. Ephemeral workloads are great for learning engineering tasks but terrible for administration.

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                                    Obsolesce @VoIP_n00b
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                                    @VoIP_n00b said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

                                    I've moved everything to the cloud.

                                    Same, way cheaper than having something at home, like 1000+ fold cheaper.

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                                      Jimmy9008
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                                      Is it weird that I don't have a home lab for the last few years? I have just been spinning up environments at work to learn things on when needed as the tech is likely work related anyway...

                                      To clarify, the work lab environments are not running on production kit so no risk to them. Its old hardware that is new enough to keep, but old enough to not be prod. So, no risk to prod... why take up room at home...

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                                      • AdamFA
                                        AdamF
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                                        So I decided to upgrade. :). Weekend project while I’m sick. Vms created, moving all data now. This is MUCH quieter than the r710.

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                                          1337 @AdamF
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                                          @AdamF said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

                                          So I decided to upgrade. :). Weekend project while I’m sick. Vms created, moving all data now. This is MUCH quieter than the r710.

                                          So moving to the cloud or upgrading hardware?

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                                            black3dynamite @AdamF
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                                            @AdamF said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

                                            So I decided to upgrade. :). Weekend project while I’m sick. Vms created, moving all data now. This is MUCH quieter than the r710.

                                            I have an R710 and its pretty quiet.

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