I built a big Server Rack for my Home Lab!

Learn more about Home Lab and Servers, and how you can start your own tech projects! This is the first time I've put a lot of time and effort into building a Server Rack for my Homelab! I talk about the different components and devices I've put into it. Doesn't need to be a big server rack though, just start with a single server, like I did. #ServerRack #HomeServer #HomeLab

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction
01:02 - Planning
02:24 - Server Rack types
05:12 - Additional Components
08:23 - Advertisement-*
09:16 - Devices in my Rack

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[alrdye]

Great watch. I’m looking to start my own home lab setup and a rack mount is the route I’m looking at. Thanks for the info and I’m really looking forward to the follow up videos.

[TheArtemus]

Cool project and it looks really awesome. I'm very excited about the upcoming videos about your new homelab.

Keep on going with your really good work and videos, Christian

[RichardSwift]

Nice project. Congrats on the new setup. I have that StarTech server rack and have been using it for a few years and very happy with it.

[realtbslolxd]

Loving the storm trooper helmet in the back. 👍

[mason]

Well done - looks very cool! looking forward to the other two videos

[Harmacist_TX]

I'm excited for your 2022 projects!

[stevendonaldson]

I've been watching a lot of your year old videos then I see this one. The camera shot and editing is good. As a photographer, that opening shot was super tasty. Loved it.
The Vlog style was cool afterwards, just add cam light.
Your desk shot is cool too. I would love if your cam was above your eyeline though.
I really dig your stuff and it just keeps getting better. GG.
Cheers from Texas BTW. I love the way you teach and video edit.

[GerardsCuriousTech]

Sophos has a free home use license. I ran the Sophos UTM on my own hardware for years. When it was time for me to upgrade the software again I decided to go with Opnsense, but definitely good stuff for small to medium businesses and amazing for home use

[SheeplessNW]

10:30 don't overlook used network hardware. It can still be expensive if you need 10 Gbps, but if you just need gigabit, used enterprise-class managed switches can be picked up very cheaply. I use a couple of HP 1820-24G switches (model J9803A): managed, fanless, 24 x gigabit copper plus 2 x gigabit SFP. I paid £25 each on ebay (around 28 Euros). Obsolete, but still perfectly capable.

[Whylde-Tech]

Great video Christian! Can't wait to see more.

[_TbT_]

As a completely Unifi (ed) household, I can recommend their Dreammachine Pro as Router, their switches and especially the access points. The single pane of glass management just makes it delightful to manage. The controller software (free) can be hosted in a Docker container, btw. Apart from that, I went down that 19“ rack rabbit hole for my home quite some time ago and have a nice 4U AMD Epyc 7282 Unraid Server in my 42U full enclosure rack (which also came in parts, luckily).

[nicoetnga]

Great !! a Rack is nice but noisy, now you can enjoy a quieter workspace ;-) I think I've found an video subject : ipv6 on Sophos Firewall XG, my ISP give me 8 block, but I don't know how to configure them without being afraid of creating security holes

[bologna]

Thanks for this video, the makeshift rack I made out of an old 80's home theater cabinet just fell apart on me, after swearing every word in the book and in some other various languages I started looking up prices for racks before realizing I have no idea what to look for lol.

[peakminute]

Great home project. Congrats on making this build.

[modo]

Thank you a lot for your awesome videos!

[olafschermann]

Back in 2012 i built a hyper-v server with the then new storage spaces with SSD cache. Using desktop components (silent) i got 700MB/sec where disks toped out at 100MB/s. At that time a pretty nice poor mans SAN.

[ClassicGOD]

Just be careful with the storage server - rails are nice but, if your rack is not anchored to the floor, fully loaded server once fully extended on rails can tip the rack. Depending of course how big it is and how the rack is loaded etc. 2U servers often come with a sticker warning not to extend more than one at the time if the rack is on wheels. With 4U ones 1 server can tip the entire thing.

[olafschermann]

I good idea in your location would be use a deep and a shallow rack ontop make most use of the room below you roof. (Dachschräge ausnutzen). Deep servers on the bottom and the shallow patchpanel on top.

[JasonsLabVideos]

Good video, watched it all. Have the same rack too, and many of us do ! Only thing i would change is that Patch panel to a Proper keystone one!

[FireLockLP]

Good work ^^ i also have a „homelab“ which is an old pc i got for free from my workplace, but i migrated that server into oracle cloud because the energy prices are exploding and this is the best Solution for me.

I also have the same capacity there, but better networking ^^