Hardware

Here is a quick summary of the hardware that makes up my HomeLab. It’s not much, but it’s my…

Virtualizaton Machines

XCP-ng

This is my XCP-ng testing pool that is running most all of my virtualizated services. I use Xen Orchestra, self complied version, to manage the pool and VMs.

Pool Version: XCP-ng v8.2.1

XCP1

Specs

• Dell OptiPlex 3010
• Intel Core i5 3450 @ 3.10 (4 Cores/4 Threads)
• 8GB DDR3?
• 400GB Spinning Rust

XCP2

Specs

• Lenovo 10TX008XUS
• Intel Core i5-8500 @ 3.0GHz (6 Cores/6 Threads)
• 16GB DDR4
• 80GB Spinning Rust

Proxmox VE

This was the first Level0(??) Hypervisor I started with, but some how set it up with an all SSD storage configuration. However, in early 2024 I stopped using it because the main both drive started throwing errors after few days of uptime.

Specs

• Lenovo
• AMD
• 8GB DDR
• Storage
  • 128GB PNY SSD (boot)
  • 512GB Inland SSD (Extra)

App Server

General App Server and first machine to be implemented as homelab.

Information Sphere

This is a Hosted UniFi Controller, WireGuard VPN Server, NGINX Web Server and ZeroTier Router.

Specs

• Dell Deminsion
• Pentium 4 @ 2.8GHz HT
• 2GB DDR
• 128GB PNY SSD
• FE Ethernet

Raspberry Pi (RPi)

Do you even have a homelab if you don’t have any Raspberry Pis?

Bender

This is my Pi-Hole (DNS) and DHCP Server. This is the second revision of this machine, it was called Fry but it needed an OS Update, hence Bender. Soon™ Zapp and Kif will join Bender as redundant/backup DNS servers running BIND9.

Specs

• Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2
• 32GB SD Card

Marvin

Currently offline, but planned to run some services in LXC containers.

Spec

• Raspberry Pi 4 (8GB)
• ~64GB SD Card

NAS

• WD MyCloud Mirror 3TB

Uses as shared storage for the XCP-ng Pool and some network storage.