Home Lab

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Hey everyone! Like most of you, I used to have plenty of systems operating all day long. During the past couple of months, I decided to decommission all of my auxiliary systems and make better use of my primary systems. Nowadays, I don’t run anything 24/7, I mostly use ephemeral lab environments using automation and Microsoft Azure 🙂

My Home Lab at a glance.

Compute Tier

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Desktop: BTO, Ryzen 7 3700X,  64 GB RAM @ 3200 DDR4

• OS:  Windows 11 Pro
• Case:  Corsair iCUE 220T RGB
• Motherboard:  MSI B550 Gaming Plus
• RAM:  Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro
• HDD 1:  Samsung 980 1 TB NvME
• HDD 2: Crucial MX300 525GB M.2 Type 2280SS Internal SSD
• GPU: Gigabyte Nvidia GTX 1660 Super
• Keyboard: Logitech MX Keys
• Mouse: Logitech MX Master 3
• Monitor 1: Dell S2721DGFA 165HZ
• Monitor 2: Dell P2421D 60HZ

Storage Tier

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LanBox01 : Synology DS720+, upgraded to 8GB RAM

• HDD 1 : WD Red 3TB SATA 6GBps
• HDD 2 : WD Red 3TB SATA 6GBps
• RAID : Configured in Raid 1
• Network : NIC Teaming using both Gigabit NIC’s
• Services Running : iSCSI Target Server, CIFS, NFS, OpenVPN

Network Tier:

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Access01 : HPE OfficeConnect 1820 24G Switch ( Configured several VLans for Internal, Lab and Backup Traffic )

Home AP : TP-Link Deco M5 in Mesh Configuration (3 in total)

Pool and Study Tier:

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Macbook Pro 13 : Late 2020, i5, 8GB, 256 GB

Dell Latitude 3510 : i7-10510U, 16GB, 512GB