03-11-2025, 01:05 AM
As with most hamlab, mine is ever evolving based on need and budget. Budget changed recently, so my "home lab" did as well.
I placed quotes because up until recently I put everything on a rented box from OVH. Suited my needs well, but with a $300/mo spend and needing to cut costs I knew I needed to cancel it at renewal.
Hardware
Hypervisor:
Dell Optiplex 7090 SFF
Core i9-10900 2.8GHz 10-Core
112 GB DD4 Non-ECC RAM
1TB SK hynix Platinum P41 M.2 (OS/ISOs/"Fast" VMs)
2TB Samsung 990 EVO M.2 (VMs) - This took the place of the SSHD as performance was soooo much worse than I expected
2TB Seagate FireCude ST2000LX001 SSHD (VHD Archives, VM Config Files) - Mostly replaced by Samsung Drive
OS - Windows Server 2022 Standard w/ Hyper-V Role
NAS:
Synology DS1621+
AMD Ryzen V1500B 2.2GHz
20GB RAM (Stock was 4GB)
500GB SK hynix Gold P31 500GB M.2 (Caching)
5x TOSHIBA MG03ACA400 4TB 7200 RPM SATA Enterprise Drive
All drives in single array using Synology Hybrid Array with 1-drive fault tolerance.
Raspberry Pi 4 Model B
Broadcom BCM2711, quad-core Cortex-A72
4GB RAM
32GB MicroSD Card
AURSINC Shari PiHat - Portable SA818 Ham Allstar Radio Interface
Networking
(the most boring part)
ISP Provided CR1000B
Dell EMC X1026 26-Port (24 Gigabit, 2 SFP)
Services
Hyper-V
IceCast Server/Client - Window 11 - Used to pipe audio from VM direct to IceCast Server that MusicBot can pick up.
Nginx Proxy Manager - Debian 12 - Reverse proxy for publicly facing services
MusicBot - Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS - Discord and Teamspeak MusicBot running SinusBot (It works but the project has not had updates recently)
KASM Workspaces - Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS - Runs KASM Workspaces (https://www.kasmweb.com/)
Farming Sim 25 - Windows Server 2025 Standard - farming Simulator 2025 Dedicated Server (why can't they make a linux version)
DokuWiki - Debian 12 - Documentation Wiki running on Apache
Plex - Windows 10 - Hosting media on local network
NAS
Synology Active Backup for Business for VMs
Document & Pictures storage
"ISO" Repository
Former Container host for piHole and Unifi Controller - removed with recent reconfiguration
Raspberry Pi 4 Model B
GMRSLIVE - Allstar node for GMRS specific use-cases creating a private internet-connected repeater.
Backups
NPM, MusicBot, and Farming Sim 25 are backed up to Synology daily via Synology Active Backup for Business
Important Documents and Pictures off-sited to BackBlaze B2 Bucket via Cloud Sync
To Do
I am sure I might have missed something.
Let me know your thoughts, concerns, or questions!
I placed quotes because up until recently I put everything on a rented box from OVH. Suited my needs well, but with a $300/mo spend and needing to cut costs I knew I needed to cancel it at renewal.
Hardware
Hypervisor:
Dell Optiplex 7090 SFF
Core i9-10900 2.8GHz 10-Core
112 GB DD4 Non-ECC RAM
1TB SK hynix Platinum P41 M.2 (OS/ISOs/"Fast" VMs)
2TB Samsung 990 EVO M.2 (VMs) - This took the place of the SSHD as performance was soooo much worse than I expected
2TB Seagate FireCude ST2000LX001 SSHD (VHD Archives, VM Config Files) - Mostly replaced by Samsung Drive
OS - Windows Server 2022 Standard w/ Hyper-V Role
NAS:
Synology DS1621+
AMD Ryzen V1500B 2.2GHz
20GB RAM (Stock was 4GB)
500GB SK hynix Gold P31 500GB M.2 (Caching)
5x TOSHIBA MG03ACA400 4TB 7200 RPM SATA Enterprise Drive
All drives in single array using Synology Hybrid Array with 1-drive fault tolerance.
Raspberry Pi 4 Model B
Broadcom BCM2711, quad-core Cortex-A72
4GB RAM
32GB MicroSD Card
AURSINC Shari PiHat - Portable SA818 Ham Allstar Radio Interface
Networking
(the most boring part)
ISP Provided CR1000B
Dell EMC X1026 26-Port (24 Gigabit, 2 SFP)
Services
Hyper-V
IceCast Server/Client - Window 11 - Used to pipe audio from VM direct to IceCast Server that MusicBot can pick up.
Nginx Proxy Manager - Debian 12 - Reverse proxy for publicly facing services
MusicBot - Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS - Discord and Teamspeak MusicBot running SinusBot (It works but the project has not had updates recently)
KASM Workspaces - Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS - Runs KASM Workspaces (https://www.kasmweb.com/)
Farming Sim 25 - Windows Server 2025 Standard - farming Simulator 2025 Dedicated Server (why can't they make a linux version)
DokuWiki - Debian 12 - Documentation Wiki running on Apache
Plex - Windows 10 - Hosting media on local network
NAS
Synology Active Backup for Business for VMs
Document & Pictures storage
"ISO" Repository
Former Container host for piHole and Unifi Controller - removed with recent reconfiguration
Raspberry Pi 4 Model B
GMRSLIVE - Allstar node for GMRS specific use-cases creating a private internet-connected repeater.
Backups
NPM, MusicBot, and Farming Sim 25 are backed up to Synology daily via Synology Active Backup for Business
Important Documents and Pictures off-sited to BackBlaze B2 Bucket via Cloud Sync
To Do
- Finish (start) documentation
- Expand storage on KASM
- Re-deploy an "ISO" retrieval stack
I am sure I might have missed something.
Let me know your thoughts, concerns, or questions!