Racked & Ready 2026
Welcome to my home lab — a constantly evolving rack built for networking, storage, virtualisation, and experimentation. What started as a simple NAS has grown into a full server rack running everything from media streaming and VPN tunnels to telephony and AI projects. Here's everything that's currently running in 2026.
Hardware // active devices
Networking
Firewalla Gold
Primary Router / Firewall
- RolePrimary router & firewall
Three Zyxel 5G Router
Secondary WAN / Failover
- Role5G failover internet
MikroTik CSS326-24G-2S+
Cloud Smart Switch
- Ports24 × 1GbE + 2 × SFP+
- RoleAccess layer switching
MikroTik CRS317
Core 10GbE Switch
- Ports16 × SFP+
- RoleCore 10GbE backbone
Storage
Synology RS1221RP+
Rackmount NAS — 2U
- Memory32GB
- NetworkPCIe Intel X520 SFP+
- Volume 14 × 6TB Seagate IronWolf
- Volume 24 × 20TB Seagate Exos X20
Compute
Silverstone RM23502MINI — Server 1
2U Rackmount — Windows Server 2022
- Memory32GB
- Storage1TB Sabrent NVMe
- Network10GbE M.2 → SFP+ Intel X520
- OSWindows Server 2022
- KVMSipeed NanoKvm-PCIe
Silverstone RM23502MINI — Server 2
2U Rackmount — Windows Server 2025
- Memory32GB
- Storage1TB Sabrent NVMe
- Network10GbE M.2 → SFP+ Intel X520
- OSWindows Server 2025
- KVMSipeed NanoKvm-PCIe
Silverstone RM23502MINI — Server 3
2U Rackmount — Proxmox
- Memory32GB
- Storage1TB Sabrent NVMe
- Network10GbE M.2 → SFP+ Intel X520
- OSProxmox
- KVMSipeed NanoKvm-PCIe
Supermicro CSE-216
Main Proxmox Host
- CPU2 × Intel E5-2630L v4
- Memory256GB DDR4
- GPUSparkle Intel Arc A310 ECO
- Storage24 × 480GB Intel DC S3610 SSDs
- Storage2 × 2TB SAS + 2 × 1.6TB NVMe
- Network2 × 10GbE PCIe Intel X520 SFP+
- OSProxmox
Silverstone SST-RM42-502
4U Rackmount — Windows 11
- CPUAMD Ryzen 3600
- Memory32GB
- GPUNvidia RTX 3060 12GB
- Storage4TB Crucial P3 NVMe
- Network10GbE Intel X520-DA2 SFP+
- OSWindows 11
- KVMSipeed NanoKvm-PCIe
Telephony
AudioCodes Mediant 800B
Session Border Controller
- RoleSIP / telephony gateway
Power
Eaton 5SC 1500IR
Line-Interactive UPS — 2U
- Capacity1500VA
- TypeLine-Interactive Rackmount
Virtual Machines & Services // running on Proxmox
💡 Most services run as LXC containers or VMs on Proxmox VE. Highly recommended: Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts — saves countless hours of setup time.
Media
Emby Server — GPU Passthrough
Emby Server 2 — Media Sorter
MeTube — YouTube Downloader
Networking
WireGuard VPN 1
WireGuard VPN 2
UniFi Network Server
Storage
NAS LXC — SMB / ZFS 10TB
SyncThing
Gokapi — File Share
Utilities
ConvertX — File Converter
iVentoy — PXE Boot
Silverbullet — Notes
WGER — Workout Manager
FreePBX — Telephony
Ubuntu Server — Management
Home Automation
Home Assistant VM
Tandoor Recipes
Mafl — Homepage Dashboard
Decommissioned // retired hardware
Hardware retired from the rack and replaced or removed.
BliKVM V4 Allwinner
KVM over IP
↳ Replaced by Sipeed NanoKvm-PCIe
Synology DS213j
2 × 8TB Desktop NAS
↳ Retired — replaced by RS1221RP+
MikroTik CRS305-1G-4S+
4 Port SFP+ Switch
↳ Replaced by MikroTik CRS317
2 × APC 1400 UPS
Back-UPS Pro 1400
↳ Replaced by Eaton 5SC 1500IR