Complete Homelab Tour! - Hardware, Networking, and Apps!

It's nearly the end of 2023 and as is tradition, it's time for a complete homelab tour! This time, we're taking the time and going deep into my ENTIRE homelab. From the physical hardware to the physical network topology and logical network topology, and down to the apps and services I'm #selfhosting! I hope this video inspires you and gives you ideas for your homelab and what you self-host, but also know that a homelab is what you make of it!

Special **THANK YOU** to our Discord user GregarousDude for the recommendation to make this video! You should join our discord and share your #homelab with us!

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**TIMESTAMPS!**
0:00 Introduction
0:43 The physical hardware in my homelab
4:42 How I name my storage pools
9:24 My physical network topology
11:22 My logical network topology
13:32 What I'm running in my homelab
20:41 Closing and final thoughts!

[zate]

This guy is on another level. I'm over here with my 2bay Synology nas and a PFSense fire wall thinking I'm all that lol.

[Weirlive]

I've gone from a full 42u rack of power hungry devices to a couple NUC's. So happy I made the switch. Looks great and happy its working for you.

[rayk]

Awesome video! I've been a network engineer for 25 years and I've always said, "keep the ACL's to a minimum ... let the switches switch, routers route and firewalls firewall". Obviously you'll need some ACLs on layer 3 switches and routing on some firewalls but these functions should be thoughtfully implemented as to not overburden your network devices. It was good to hear you say what you said about ACLs.

[intothebeyond]

You've just got yourself another subscriber Sir . I'm going to be taking my CCNA soon and I love watching videos like this.

[stang]

Makes me nostalgic for my time working in a data center

[Ozz]

Dont currently run a homelab but man do I enjoy watching a welll explained breakdown of there set ups. Well done .

[caizza]

Superb explanation and very entertaining. Impressive video!!!

[ВадимФінЕкстра]

This is the stand.
I haven't seen anything like this live in the last 10 years.

[JasonsLabVideos]

Looking clean ! Mines a huge mess because i keep adding / removing and testing and learning, oh wait, thats the whole purpose of the home lab !!

[Ultimaus]

I don't know how but this is exactly the homelab your I needed to get my head straight about how I should organize network topology for homelab. Your mention and reasoning of the layer 2 VLAN is a subtle nuance that's really easily missed for non networking focused people. 10/10.

I don't know if you script your videos but us stats nerds would love to peer into your power usage and what not on the hardware you're using. Lots of us that are looking to buy the Broadwell power edge would like to know the month to month power consumption of something full of spinning mech drives and a nvme performance king.

If it's too boring to post on video we would love just a link with a written form with some pics to please the algorithm.

[VauntedSeer]

I respect home labbers. I have a large lab at work so i stay minimal at home. My 12TB freebsd server is enough for me.

[lewayneg]

Must be nice. I'd love to have my system up and running, but not having a home stops that. Anyway, I'm glad he got what he has. It's nice.

[popquizzz]

Twinax as in IBM Type 1A cabling Twinax?? I had no idea that was still a thing. When I worked at Mod-Tap back in the 80s that was a thing for converting onto UTP cabling. There was also WangNet which used dual coax to which we had dual-coax baluns for but this shook me to my core the mention of Twinax.

[PatrickDKing]

Well that was a lot more than I thought it would be. I didn't know what half that stuff is. Feel free to make a dedicated video on everything lol!

[Matthew_A_N]

That's pretty nice. Not quite on my level though. I have a mini pc plugged directly into my router. That's it 😎

[GregariousDudeGaming]

Amazing video! You guys are the best! Cannot stop recommending you guys enough! Keep up the awesome work and content!

[TantissTheEmperor]

Also team 42U homelab here.
I use it pretty much for the same services.
Difference are, I orchestrate everything with ansible and terraform and docker host is a k8s cluster.
Apart from APs I don’t use Ubiquiti but enterprise used gear only (Aruba, Arista, HPE ….) I found it was around the same prices and closer to what I use at work.
But as said homelab is not about the hardware but what you are doing with it and if you enjoy it. To bad the team “low power” tends to judge all big setup and talk NUC all the time…

[MichaelSkinner-ej]

I have been thinking about a home lab for a very long time, but there’s a lot of stuff you need for that. Not just for the server

[eman]

You don't need enterprise hardware for a home lab esp over kill hardware for a single person. I built an ESXi server out of regular Desktop PC hardware and moved it into a 4U Server Chassis with ICY Dock swap bays. It only idles around 55Watts currently running 15 VMs. I have another 4U box for my True NAS storage.

[CalvinGetRektM]

I've my self a Supermicro cse826 (modded with Ryzen and my playground, since normally you would not get a BGP session there for announcing my own asn.