Hub page for my home lab setup – this page will be updated as my home lab grows and evolves.
Hardware
Initially I built this machine as a NAS box to run TrueNAS. At that point I was trying to use the VM feature of TrueNAS to build out a home lab but it was too slow and clunky for what I wanted. When I discovered Proxmox I immediately took a weekend to back things up and rebuild my services. Everything runs much smoother and I’m able to take backups and snapshots.
- Case: Fractal Design Node 304 Black Aluminum/Steel Mini-ITX Small Form Factor
- Motherboard: MSI B4501 Gaming MAX WIFI
- CPU: AMD RYZEN 5 3600 6-Core 3.6 GHz
- RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 64GB (2 x 32GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200
- SSD: Western Digital WD BLACK SN750 NVMe M.2 2280 250GB PCI-Express (Proxmox OS)
- Hard Drives: 2 x 6TB Western Digital Gold Enterprise Class RAID 1 (zfs data drives)
- Fan: Seasonic FOCUS GX-650, 650W 80+ Gold
Firewall Appliance
- Qotom Fanless Mini PC (Q355G4 Core i5-5200U 2.2 GHz, 8 GB RAM, 64 GB SSD)
Software
- pfSense
- Proxmox
- Nextcloud
- GitLab
Future VMs and Containers
- Ansible
- macOS Time Machine share
- guacamole
- Diablo II server (original)