Workshop and Homelab Tour

Taking a look at my workshop and homelab rack!

Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

#netro #retrotech #retrocomputer #computers #networking #cisco

Rack stuff

Video gear

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00:00 Intro
00:00 Homelab Rack Overview
00:00 Dell R720 Riser Replacement
00:00 Workshop Walkthrough
00:00 Proxmox and TrueNAS Instances
00:00 Outro

[smpstech]

Shouldn't that be called a Homeclab?

[JZB-]

It's funny. I'm doing a brand new voice install for a school system, and during the walk through of their existing network closets we noticed that there were PILES of old networking gear in the corners. Whole bunch of Cisco 2960/2960s/3650G/3750G switches and many, many APs as well. My boss who was doing the walk trhough with me asked what the customer was going to do with all of it since they upgraded to Meraki, and he said that all of it was going to be scrapped. All of it, just tossed out to the recycling center. My boss quickly said that we'd be happy to rescue the switches to use for spares as they were all recent enough to still be usefull (fully Gig and PoE). It's crazy how much newer fully working equipment just gets tossed, so it's just so cool to see even older stuff put to cool use like this even now. Thanks for the great videos!

[ricdintino]

eBay + "a couple beers" = Buyer's remorse

[theserialport]

that Computer Renaissance coffee mug looks like the main prize

[andyg]

This sparks joy. Thank you for inviting us into your space, Mr Retro.

[juanstdio]

I recall a few months back we were just 3k folks and now you are almost at 50k subs.
What a journey! and it totally justifies the lab :D

[Arandomguy]

I haven't lost attention on this video this just goes to show that clabs videos are the best quality. Keep it up clab!

[Thesecret-telm]

The two tips you need:
A: For the data you really don't want to lose, buy disks from different manufacturers and use them in mirrored pairs. The chance of two different manufacturers having quality problems at the same time seems very low.

B: Others have already commented on this, but get zip-lock bags for the random screws. Buy 100-packs of different sizes and ensure that you have some working pens floating around so you can actually label the zip-lock bags.

Two tips you might not need :)
C: Obviously add more shelves where there is space.

D: To ensure you don't end up with various junk on every single piece of free space, just avoid having easily accessible free spaces. If someone is remodeling/renovating their kitchen or similar, grab the old doors from their cupboards/cabinets, and install those doors to cover shelves that have free space. Also maybe grab some drawers for the various loose things that kind of have to be loose.

Looking forwards to future videos!

[CalebVorwerk]

The first time I saw a power edge was in one of your videos, I now own an r710 and run it at my works data center. I absolutely love them.

[sleepyhead]

New clabretro video!!! Let’s go!!! Always love your video!!!

[artofnoise]

Nice of you to show your supervisor at the end.

[VelocityBlasters]

@clabretro Protip : You can just tape the lid sensor switch down to prevent this from happening again. It's a useful switch in the data centre where you want to log case open status but at home you don't really need it and that would prevent you from accidentally breaking it in the future.

[evilZardoz]

There's so much cool stuff in this clip! The Fore ESX/LE155 ATM gear, the 7206s with the library of port adapters, etc. Storing gear vertically is something we've been doing forever.

I love how that space literally looks just like the typical IT manager's workshop/space of a mid/large org in the 90s. Software boxes, shrinkwrapped NICs etc. Definitely hits me in the ol' nostalgia!

[TekChris]

The #1 thing on my Christmas 1995 wish list was a Parallel Zip 100 which Santa did bring... I thought it was the coolest thing ever and I envisioned being able to take it to friends' houses with all my games loaded on it. Turned out that wasn't super practical as it required a bunch of drivers and was a faff to get it working properly but I still loved the thing and used it into the 2000s.

[edfromnc]

Reality keeps slapping me in the face when I watch retro computing! I'm sitting here looking at my HP 4050N Laser Printer, which has been and still is my main printer. I got curious as to when it was built and the wiki says they stopped making them in 1999! I feel old now....
I worked a lot with Cisco gear and sorely want to have a 4506 or 6507 for my home network, but as it would be good to heat my house in winter, it would be a disaster for the AC in summer! :-) I am content to run my Netgear switches because they don't draw much power, but I long for even a 3560G or 3750. I also spotted a couple of Compaq ProLiant servers, spent a lot of time with those too.

[whette_fahrtz]

gonna watch this video every time i look upon my empire of dirt and think "I have too much old computing gear and half finished projects and shit I bought on ebay after a few beers"

[-r-]

Every time I watch one of your videos Iget inspired and go down the next rabbit hole 😄

thank you!

[redgek]

Thank you for a crib episode. That's some serious gear you have and I especially can't wait to check that Sun IPX cutie! :P Happy new year and thank you for showing us all the cool stuff some of us missed out on!

[KibaWolfbane]

I love the unintended gag of fhe Linksys tower being so tall its out of frame now

[RandomTechWZ]

I wanted the i95 and i930 Nextel so bad back in the day. I could never get my mom to switch over to Nextel from Sprint so I was stuck with their ReadyLink walkie talkie while my friends had Nextel.

The Linksys WRT series was my first intro into computer networking so I'll always have a fondness for them too.