Hello my name is Josh, and here I’ll be posting update on the various projects and homelab technologies I’m working with.
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My current homelab as of 1/1/2025 is:

Rack:

• Rosewill 25U 4 post adjustable rack

Servers:

• Dell R720
  • CPU: 1x 10-Core Intel Xeon E5-2680V2 @ 2.8GHz
  • RAM: 96GB DDR3 ECC @ 1600MHz
  • Storage:
    • 2x 256GB SATA SSD (RAID1 | OS & Backup 1)
    • 2x 4TB SATA HDD (RAID1 | VMs, IOSes, Backup 2)
  • OS: Proxmox VE
  • Lab Environments:
    • Active Directory
    • Eve-NG
  • Services:
    • WireGuard
    • Docker:
      • Portainer:
        • Dashy
        • DuckDNS
        • NGINX
        • Glances
    • PiHole

Networking:

• 2x Cisco Catayst 3850 48P for testing
• Cisco SG300-10 10p switch
• TP-Link tl-sg105e 5p switch
• TP-Link POE injector
• TP-Link EAP223

Power:

• APC ES 650 UPS
• Tripplite 120V 5-15 PDU

Future Plans

• Create a network diagram to easily display what services and systems I use
• Potentially move towards more recent, lower powered servers and keep the R720 only for testing purposes
• Learn more about Ansible and Terraform and see if deploying them would be useful
  • Learn YAML
• Potentially move away from 3rd party cloud based security and utilize self-hosted security and storage management
• Create a NAS
• Locally create SSL certificates
• Get a standalone PFsense/OpenWRT/OPNsense device