HomeLab Hardware Tour! (Late 2023)

My Late 2023 Server Rack and HomeLab tour! I've upgraded, replaced, added, and consolidated quite a bit since my last tour! New servers, new networking, UPS, cabling, power management, and more new tech on the wall!

Be sure to check out the services tour!

📦 Gear in this video 📦

Rack & Accessories

Network

Servers & Accessories

Accessories

Over the Air TV Gear

Intel NUC Mini Cluster

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00:00 - HomeLab Changes
00:46 - Tech Wall
02:53 - OTA TV Tuner
04:03 - 48 Port 2.5 Gb & PoE Switch
05:18 - Firewall & Gateway & Security
07:20 - 10 Gb Aggregation Switch
09:11 - Smart PDU
10:18 - Brush Panels
10:35 - 1u Network UPS
11:17 - 48 Port 1 Gb & Poe Switch
11:28 - 1u Servers & New project
12:51 - Low Power Mini Cluster
14:48 - Storinator
16:45 - PC Conversion Server
17:57 - HL15
18:54 - Rack UPS and Power Usage
20:09 - Back of the rack
20:24 - KVM Switch & PiKVM
21:40 - PDU & Cable Management
22:00 - Back of 1u Network UPS
22:13 - Back of 1u Servers & New project
22:45 - Back of Storinator
23:00 - Cable ARMs?
23:18 - Back of PC Conversion Server
23:39 - Back of HL15
23:49 - Back of Rack UPS

Thank you for watching!

[TechnoTim]

HomeLab Software & Services Tour coming soon!

[RaidOwl]

Perfect, time to feel inferior about my lab! *grabs popcorn*

[Bill_the_Red_Lichtie]

That is not just a home lab, it is also a WORK OF ART! 😍

[techaddressed]

I, for one, would be super interested in a video / series about what goes into colocating systems.

[Trains-With-Shane]

Congratulations on another massively successful year, Tim! You got me started in Docker a few years back and it has been one of my most rewarding home lab endeavors and keeps bearing fruit as such. Think i'm going to have to upgrade my home setup to 2.5gbt at some point soon, though. As 1gbt is starting to take just a little too long for the amounts of data i'm moving these days.

[smalltimer]

Absolutely brilliant!
You are an inspiration to all home-lab enthusiasts.

- thanks so much for taking the time and effort in making and sharing this!

[dominick]

I went from no homelab to a pi 4 openwrt router, two node proxmox cluster with 30 services running on it, a device for quorum. Pretty happy with the setup for now. Maybe upgrade to 2.5 or 5g lan network.

3:57 you got to be kidding me 😂😂😂 One of the cleanest setups I've ever seen and you're saying it's out of control.

[abe]

Finally! Love it an actual walkthrough tour of a home lab and the uses for said devices! Keep it up! Please do another video just like this again soon! Really got ALOT of new ideas I can start implementing on my homelab as a low-budget newbie THANK YOU!

[SteveOwensRoswell]

Thanks for the video... love watching the evolution of your homelab.

[gustcol]

Very good and thanks for sharing all parts and components, this is very helpful

[PolarrCloud]

Very awesome to see, I’m just setting up and diving into my first homelab! Super cool to Learn that your local to MN! Always love learning from your videos!

[lqqkout]

Twin Cities?! Subscribed! My background is in infosec and I've been networking and running various NAS and home automation projets, electronics builds, and other solder-covered geekery for years. My next major project is a DIY smarthome buildout for new a construction home in Mpls based on homeassistant with a ton of integrations. I'm excited to see what you move to for SFF servers and self-hosted cloud services. Thanks for the tour!

[gregs]

Hey twin cities neighbor, thanks for the tour. Happy new year! New sub

[kingsisidore]

Always a delight to see your videos...

Would be thrilled to receive any of your decommissioned server and hardwares to work with.

[vex]

Wonderful Lab! I recommend maybe switching your rack power to 240v. i’m here in the states and it has massively improved efficiency in the rack! Definitely a fun project

[jgbenik]

Twin Cities fan who would love to upgrade my Dell R700 TrueNas and add something newer to my almost empty rack. Thanks for your content, I wish I could support you more, truly great details for a very novice techie!

[KenOttaviano]

Great setup! I really enjoyed the tour. I used your NUT tutorial today in my lab. After I figured out the timing intricacies with my HA Proxmox cluster nodes, it is working great!

[hashbrownfob]

Richfield here, would love to get that server. I've been planning out my network and homelab for awhile. Ready to make it happen!

[stuartcastle]

Bit more impressive than my home lab, which is essentially a PC attached to a netgear switch, running Proxmox, and various virtual machines, some running Linux, some running various flavours of Windows. The VMs are used for essentially experiementation, and so I can learn various aspects of the software installed on the VMs safe in the knowledge that if I break something, I've lost nothing important, and can just restore the VM from a snapshot.

While I do have a lot of different services and devices (Internet etc) that *could* go in a server room, unfortunately, I don't have a spare room, or even much space for a rack.

[khuzad]

Didn't know you were in the Twin Cities. Let's hope our winter isn't too horrible this year.