Main Hypervisor

Proxmox 7

Dell R620

128 GB RAM

2x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2

2x 128 GB Boot SSDs

2x 2 TB Data SSDs

Most of my homelab runs on this heavily used R620, which is starting to get a little long in the tooth. The CPU performance in particular is a bit lackluster compared to even some of the low-end desktops I use. The main benefit of the R620 is that it’s 1U and fairly quiet when not under heavy load.

One of the issues with this server is the lack of iDRAC. It was bought with iDRAC, but the card seems to have died, and since this is my only node, I’ve had to leave it since otherwise I wouldn’t have a lab.

This server runs on two 10Gb SFP+ DACs, connected via LACP to my UniFi 16-XG. There are another two SFP+ ports available from when I used to have a separate hardware router, but I removed that because the R210 I was using started having performance issues. Another 1Gb link connects to my WAN, which allows my server to have a VM OpnSense Router.

The server also uses the PVE SDN module, which is more for keeping clusters in sync. Back when I had a cluster, this was the main way I kept their networks in sync, whenever I added or removed a VLAN. It also integrates very well with OpenVSwitch, which allows a lot of flexibility, since OVS has more utility than the standard Linux bridges.

Running on that server are my DNS servers, PiHole servers, and services like Home Assistant, the UniFi controller, and Zabbix.

Main Storage

TrueNAS Scale

Custom Server Build

32 GB RAM

AMD Ryzen 5 3400G

14x 4 TB WD Red

After a long time spent with an old Hyve Cygnus J, I finally found the time and hardware to upgrade. One major consideration was the raw storage. Instead of what I had before, which was 8 drives in ZFS RAIDz2, I instead switched to effectively RAID 10 across 12 of my 4TB Drives, with two more acting as hot spares. I plan to upgrade the motherboard, so the loss of one 10Gb port for another HBA is unfortunate, but wont be forever. The other benefit is that now I don’t have to disassemble the entire server to get to a drive.