Home office — Homelab, 29U

Most of my computer projects includes, or revolves around — my homelab.

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Front

Rear

  • MikroTik CRS317-1G-16S+ Network
  • MikroTik CRS328-24P-4S+ Network
  • MikroTik CRS310-8G+2S+ Network
  • Eaton HotSwap MBP Power distribution

Non-racked

  • APC Rack-Mount PDU Power distribution
  • Schroff Socket strip Power distribution
  • Anker PowerPort 6 USB, 60W Power distribution
  • RIPE Atlas probe Monitoring probe
  • Philips Hue bridge IoT
  • TP-Link SFP media converter Network

Backup

Every night I backup up all virtual machines and containers, using Proxmox Backup Server — the backups gets synced to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage using rclone crypt.

For off-site document backup I use Duplicacy, it encrypts, deduplicated, and uploads to Backblaze B2 as well.

I’m currently investigating using Borg and/or a remote Proxmox Backup Server located at a friends house.

Power

The primary power source is a dedicated 15 A circuit — for the homelab rack and heat-pump. The basement circuit is used as the secondary source. Both inputs are protected with a Brennenstuhl Premium-Protect-Line 60 kA surge protector.

I’ve removed the ATS from my power setup, it look up one precious U — and having the rack connected to multiple circuits have never really been useful in the 7 years I’ve had it installed.
Homelab power diagram, created with diagrams.net

Power monitoring in Home Assistant

Homelab ATS in Home Assistant
Homelab UPS in Home Assistant

Network

I now have single mode fiber between the house and garage — yet to be documented…
Network backbone digram, created with diagrams.net

Only switches that I consider part of the backbone is included in this diagram, e.g. a local switch on the TV-bench is not included.

Networks

  • CCTV
  • DMZ
  • Guest
  • LAB
  • Users

Services

Photos

Homelab rack
Home office — with homelab rack
Backside of homelab rack
Homelab rack — with work light and monitor

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