Home Server Rack

Specs:

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  • 1 x Fiber Modem (not pictured)

  • 1 x 2018 Mac Mini with 4TB External HDD

  • 1 x MagStor LTO 8 Tape Drive (12G SAS)

  • Ubiquiti Unifi UDM SE Router/Firewall

  • 24 Port CAT 6A Patch Panel

  • 1 x Ubiquiti Unifi Switch Aggregation

  • 24 Port CAT 6A Patch Panel

  • 1 x Ubiquiti Unifi Enterprise Switch 24 PoE

  • 1 x Ubiquiti NVR (4 bay) - 4 x 4TB HDD

  • Custom Built VM Server (2U)

    • Supermicro 2U, 24 2.5” bay case

    • Redundant 550 Watt Power Supplies

    • Intel Xeon Silver 4114 10-Core CPU

    • 96GB DDR4 RAM

    • 1 x 64GB Supermicro DOM

    • 2 x Intel 280GB 900P Optane NVME SSD

    • 4 x Intel 960GB DC S-4510 2.5” SSD

  • Custom Built Storage Server (2U)

    • Supermicro 2U, 12 3.5” bay case

    • Redundant 550 Watt Power Supplies

    • Intel Xeon D-1537 8-Core CPU

    • 64GB DDR4 ECC RAM

    • 1 x 64GB Supermicro DOM

    • 12 x Western Digital 14TB HDD

    • 2 x Intel Optane NVME

  • 1 x APC SMTL1500RM3UC UPS (1500VA)

Description:

This equipment sits in a 24U APC Rack on casters in the basement. All equipment sits behind the UPS that currently has a little over 20 minutes of run time when loaded which is very ample to ride out brown outs and allow for clean shutdowns with power cuts. The storage server and VM server are 10Gb connected to the core switch, and the edit machines also connect in at 10Gb. All jack feeds, as well has the house coaxial cable connection feed into the rack and either patch into the patch panels or hit the modem directly.

Uses:

This rack runs our home network as well as my home lab that I use to run services for the house as well as learn about for work. The storage server runs RHEL 9 with ZFS v2.1 configured in a RAIDZ2 vdev (with mirrored Optane drives for metadata) that provide us with 116TB of usable storage on the system. This is the primary copy of our data and is also snapshot’d daily with snapshots retained for 30 days. The VM server runs a multitude of services such as InfluxDB, Grafana, Robinhood, Plex, Pihole, Gitlab, Bookstack, and much more. The network equipments supports all these demands and handles the home’s 1000/1000 connection from a local fiber company, it also supports the Raspberry Pi cluster described on the Raspberry Pi Cluster page.