Welcome to a detailed look at my home lab rack, where I’ve built a flexible and powerful setup for networking, storage, and virtual machines. Here’s what’s currently running in my server rack:

What’s New

  • Router – Firewalla Gold
  • Router – Three Zyxel 5G Router
  • Telephony – AudioCodes Mediant 800B
  • Networking – Switch – MikroTik Cloud Smart Switch CSS326-24G-2S+
  • NAS – Synology RS1221RP+
    • Memory: 32GB
    • Networking: PCIE Intel X520 SFP+
    • Storage (Volume 2): 4 x 20TB Seagate Exos X20
    • Storage (Volume 1): 4 x 6TB Seagate Iron Wolf
  • Networking – Switch – Mikrotik CRS317 (16 SFP+)
  • 3 x Server – Case Silverstone – RM23502MINI 2U Rackmount Case
    • Storage: 1TB – Sabrent NVMe
    • Memory: 32GB
    • Network: 10Gi – M.2 To SFP+ Intel X520
    • OS: Windows Server 2022 / Windows Server 2025 / Proxmox
    • KVM: Sipeed NanoKvm-PCIe
  • 1 x Server – Supermicro CSE-216
    • CPU: 2 x Intel E5-2630L v4 CPUs
    • Memory: 256GB DDR4
    • GPU: Sparkle Intel Arc A310 ECO GPU
    • Storage: 24 x 480GB Intel DC S3610 SATA SSDs
    • Storage: 2 x 2TB Seagate SAS Drives
    • Storage: 2 x 1.6TB Intel DC P3600 NVMe SSDs
    • Networking: 2x10gi – PCIE Intel X520 SFP+
    • OS: Proxmox
  • 1 x Server – Silverstone – SST-RM42-502 4U Rackmount Case
    • CPU: Ryzen 3600
    • Memory: 32GB
    • GPU: Nvidia RTX 3060 12GB
    • Storage: 4TB NVMe Crucial P3 4TB
    • Networking: 10Gi – Intel X520-DA2 / SFP+
    • OS: Windows 11
    • Other: 2 x ASUS BD-RE 16X Blu Ray
    • KVM: Sipeed NanoKvm-PCIe
  • UPS – Eaton 5SC 5SC1500IR Line-Interactive Rackmount 2U

Retired Devices

  • Retired – BliKVM V4 Allwinner Replaced with Sipeed NanoKvm-PCIe
  • Retired – Synology DS213j (2 x 8TB Drives)
  • Retired – MikroTik CRS305-1G-4S+ Replaced Mikrotik CRS317 (16 SFP+)

Servers and Virtualization

Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts

I highly recommend the Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts available at tteck’s GitHub. These scripts have saved me countless hours, automating many tasks that would otherwise take much longer to configure manually. They’re simple to use and work flawlessly.

N100M Proxmox Virtual Machines (Test Bed)

  • Retired – Frigate LXC – Frigate: Video surveillance software
  • Retired – SMB File Server LXC
  • Retired – WireGuard 1 VPN Server LXC – WireGuard

Supermicro CSE-216 Proxmox Virtual Machines

  • Ubuntu Server LXC – Management 1
  • Retired –Ubuntu Server LXC – Management 2
  • NAS LXC – SMB File Server – 10TB SSDs, ZFS
  • HomePage LXC – Simple Link Page – mafl
  • Cook Book Website LXC – Tandoor Recipes
  • UniFi Network Server LXC
  • WireGuard 1 VPN Server LXC
  • WireGuard 2 VPN Server LXC
  • Retired –Web-Based Quick File Share LXC – Filebrowser
  • Replacement – Web-Based Quick File Share LXC – Gokapi
  • Emby Server LXC – GPU Passthrough for media streaming
  • Emby Server 2 LXC – Media Sorter
  • Retired –Apache Guacamole – Web-based remote desktop access
  • Convertion Webpage – ConvertX
  • YouTube Downloader LXC – MeTube
  • Retired – Photo Management LXC – PhotoPrism
  • SyncThing LXC – SyncThing
  • Retired – 2 x UPS Management LXC – PeaNUT
  • Workout Manager – WGER
  • Notes Webpage – Silverbullet
  • PXE Boot LXC – iVentoy
  • Home Assistant VM
  • FreePBX – Telephony Test Server

This home lab is the core of my tech experimentation and testing environment. Whether it’s virtualization, backup solutions, or network monitoring, my rack setup covers a wide range of services and ensures my home network runs smoothly.