Home office — Homelab, 29U

Most of my computer projects includes, or revolves around — my homelab.

Table of contents

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Front

Rear

  • MikroTik CRS317-1G-16S+ Network
  • MikroTik CRS328-24P-4S+ Network
  • Eaton HotSwap MBP Power distribution

Non-racked

  • RPi power, Monitoring probe Power management
    • RPi Foundation Raspberry Pi 3
  • APC Rack-Mount PDU Power distribution
  • Schroff Socket strip Power distribution
  • Anker PowerPort 6 USB, 60W Power distribution
  • RIPE Atlas probe Monitoring probe
  • Philips Hue bridge IoT
  • TP-Link SFP media converter Network

Backup

Every night I backup up all virtual machines and containers, using Proxmox Backup Server — the backups gets synced to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage using rclone crypt.

For off-site document backup I use Duplicacy, it encrypts, deduplicated, and uploads to Backblaze B2 as well.

Power

The primary power source is a dedicated 15 A circuit — for the homelab rack and heat-pump. The basement circuit is used as the secondary source. Both inputs are protected with a Brennenstuhl Premium-Protect-Line 60 kA surge protector.

Homelab power diagram, created with diagrams.net

Power monitoring in Home Assistant

Homelab ATS in Home Assistant
Homelab UPS in Home Assistant

Network

Network backbone digram, created with diagrams.net

Only switches that I consider part of the backbone is included in this diagram, e.g. a local switch on the TV-bench is not included.

Networks

  • CCTV
  • DMZ
  • Guest
  • LAB
  • Users
  • Work

Services

Photos

Homelab rack
Home office — with homelab rack
Backside of homelab rack
Homelab rack — with work light and monitor