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
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.
I've been watching a lot of your year old videos then I see this one. The camera shot and editing is soooooo 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.
Thank you so much! As a complete newbie in camera and editing, it makes me happy to get this feedback from someone who does it professionally :D Also your suggestions and tips are extremely helpful, thanks :)
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.
Thank you, so much! I haven't actually thought about that, but intuitively put the storage case to the bottom of the rack (which now seems like a calculated decision :D)
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
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).
Oh that sounds like a really cool server rack on your side! :D I hope you'll enjoy my firewall video, as it covers all these points, as well as WiFi AP management :)
It is comparable to the Cisco Meraki platform (which REQUIRES licenses - which are cost-prohibitive). Once the license expires, they are nothing but glorified paperweights.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 ^^
Nice choice in the Startech rack - great for a homelab. I've done some wall-mounts in basements with great success. Also good choice in going for a rack that uses cage nuts instead of threaded holes in the steel - you won't accidentally render an RU useless with a stripped hole. That said, cage nuts are the devil. Get yourself some Rackstuds to replace the cage nuts and screws. Your knuckles will thank you. Yes, there's a tool you can use to pop the cage nuts out, but they're so easy to lose track of, especially at the worst possible moment. You'll use Rackstuds once, then never want to touch a traditional cage nut again, believe me. They're amazingly strong too (something like 400 pounds/180kg of shearing force). Also, I believe someone else mentioned, but don't forget about tip hazard with heavy things on sliding rails.
Thank you! Great suggestion with the Rackstuds. I've never heard about them, maybe because I don't work with racks anymore, besides my home lab :D But that looks really nice! I'll get some of them.
Very nice Christian! Take a look at TP-Link T1700G-28TQ with 4 Ports 10GE SFP+ for your Server (with 10GbE PCIE network card for Intel X520-DA1-82599EN Chip) and Netgear NETGEAR XS505M with 5 Ports 10GbE RJ45 for your Clients (with Asus XG-C100C).
Thank you! So funny! I bought some X520-DA1's for my servers and because it didn't work in win11 another one for my client :D, however the switch will be something different 😀
I was waiting to see where you were planning to place that rack. That rack might get too heavy for the 2nd story. Make sure that floor is reinforced or at least can handle the load on it.
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.
Just a heads up I don't think it's a Fibre Channel card in your firewall it's just a 10gbit SFP+ card. Fibre Channel is a very specific thing for SANs and I don't think the XGS2100 directly supports Fibre Channel SANs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_Channel for anyone interested.
Hi Christian, cool project! Looking forward for the rest. In general I would recommend a managed switch that's supports vlan's for a project like this, the unmanaged one you use right now seems like a divestment. And a small correction: 10 Gbps ethernet over fibre is not the same as fibre channel.
I suppose you are confusing Fiber Channel (that is for Storage / SAN Purposes with Speeds of 4/8/16/32Gbps) with Network Fiber Optics. FC and SFP+ is a total different thing..
Mein Lieber, sehr gutes Video! Wenn ich das richtig sehe, steht dein Rack auf dem Dachboden. Durch ständige Temperaturwechsel auf dem Dachboden verringert sich die Lebensdauer deiner HDDs, wollte ich nur mal anmerken.
Lovely build, am planning myself a similar one using Startech.. just havent plonked the money into it getting a Rack.. got a couple of Precisions running as my Hypervisor (VMware workstation tho )..a few Cisco switches for learning networking.. but just curious as to how much you would incur as costs towards running these 24/7 or what strategy do you use for cost optimizations'.. ?
I don't use any professional server (besides my firewall and switch), that what keeps the power consumption low. And I try to not run too much all the time, that's all I can do.
I wish i had a place to put rack mounted devices in my home. Its small and the noise is to much. I am trying to find desktop server but they are so much more expensive for some reason.
Hey I need help and suggestion for planning my Home network. I am very interested in the following scenario: I want to set up my home network so that I can access it via a VPN from the Internet (for example hosting a VPN Server) and at the same time I want to route all of my network traffic via a VPN Provider. How is this possible? So in the Best case I can connect then to my Home network via my self hosted VPN and my traffic to the internet will routed over my Home network and then over the external VPN Provider to the internet even it I am not at home. Then there are a lot of possibilities to secure the home network and all this mechanisms apply to All my devices and to the devices which are connected to my home network via VPN. I think it should be possible but can someone give my any advises how to achieve this goal? I would be very thankful!
I worked a little with UTM in the past, and it had some advantages. But with every new version, XG becomes better and better, and I now like it much more than UTM.
Feier deine Videos extrem! Bin da auf der genau gleichen Ebene unterwegs, habs nur bisher leider etwas übertrieben und weiß aktuell nicht was ich mit meinen 800GB RAM auf meinem "kleinen" Gemischten VMware Cluster anstellen soll:D Anyway: Wie bist du an die XGS gekommen? Hast du dort tatsächlich so tief in die Tasche gegriffen? Dann aber schon mit der Home Lizenz, gell?
Vielen Dank! Okay 800GB erscheinen da echt etwas .. viel :D Die XGS läuft aktuell mit einer richtigen Lizenz, die hardware appliances laufen ohne weiteres so nicht mit der Home Lizenz. Da ich bei Sophos arbeite bekomme ich das als teststellung.
Chris, why the heck did you get a rack? :D yes it's cool but rack mounted servers have the worst airflow and PSUs are super expensive. I stick with my tower. Although for networking the point goes for a rack. And jau.. lot of storage! What are you storing there? Do we even want to know? ;) Seriously why from tower to rack? Maybe I am missing smth
cute, but it lacks some major things: 1) cable management, 2) recessed rails, 3) lights, and 4) cooling. I won't detail why you need/want each of these - you should already know why if you ARE a networking PROFESSIONAL.
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
hi,
i used it too now i use sophos xg home License :) running fine on a intel nuc with 2 ethernet ports :)
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.
Oh nice! Let us know how your projects goes :)
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.
Thank you! Great to hear it was the right decision for a rack 😀
I've been watching a lot of your year old videos then I see this one. The camera shot and editing is soooooo 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.
Thank you so much! As a complete newbie in camera and editing, it makes me happy to get this feedback from someone who does it professionally :D Also your suggestions and tips are extremely helpful, thanks :)
Loving the storm trooper helmet in the back. 👍
Oh yea I love that one :D
I'm excited for your 2022 projects!
Nice to hear :D
Well done - looks very cool! looking forward to the other two videos
Thank you so much :)
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.
Thank you, so much! I haven't actually thought about that, but intuitively put the storage case to the bottom of the rack (which now seems like a calculated decision :D)
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
Thank you! I'm so excited as well 🥰
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).
Oh that sounds like a really cool server rack on your side! :D I hope you'll enjoy my firewall video, as it covers all these points, as well as WiFi AP management :)
It is comparable to the Cisco Meraki platform (which REQUIRES licenses - which are cost-prohibitive). Once the license expires, they are nothing but glorified paperweights.
Great video Christian! Can't wait to see more.
Thanks ❤️
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
Thanks mate! Btw the rack is absolutely quiet ;) I don't know much about IPv6 from ISP side, maybe hard to reproduce for me
Beautiful!
Thanks :)
Thank you a lot for your awesome videos!
Glad you like them!
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.
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.
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.
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!
Thanks mate! Is there any advantage with the keystone one?
@@christianlempa Easy to move around, easy to repair. BTW for doing all those Sophos video's. Just about to do a few my self now :) Addicted !!
Great job thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Well done Christian :D
Thank you so much! And for your support 🥰
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 ^^
Yeah that sounds like a good choice, energy bills can be high with a home lab
Very nice, have fun! Hope to do the same one day in near future. Techno Tim should see this :D
Thanks! Oh would be nice to see yours then as well ;)
hi, congratulations. I have noted that you've put the rack on some type of surface, for avoid vibrations? stability?
Thanks 😀 it's more to save the floor.
looks amazing!!
Thanks!
Nice choice in the Startech rack - great for a homelab. I've done some wall-mounts in basements with great success. Also good choice in going for a rack that uses cage nuts instead of threaded holes in the steel - you won't accidentally render an RU useless with a stripped hole. That said, cage nuts are the devil. Get yourself some Rackstuds to replace the cage nuts and screws. Your knuckles will thank you. Yes, there's a tool you can use to pop the cage nuts out, but they're so easy to lose track of, especially at the worst possible moment. You'll use Rackstuds once, then never want to touch a traditional cage nut again, believe me. They're amazingly strong too (something like 400 pounds/180kg of shearing force). Also, I believe someone else mentioned, but don't forget about tip hazard with heavy things on sliding rails.
Thank you! Great suggestion with the Rackstuds. I've never heard about them, maybe because I don't work with racks anymore, besides my home lab :D But that looks really nice! I'll get some of them.
Very nice Christian! Take a look at TP-Link T1700G-28TQ with 4 Ports 10GE SFP+ for your Server (with 10GbE PCIE network card for Intel X520-DA1-82599EN Chip) and Netgear NETGEAR XS505M with 5 Ports 10GbE RJ45 for your Clients (with Asus XG-C100C).
Thank you! So funny! I bought some X520-DA1's for my servers and because it didn't work in win11 another one for my client :D, however the switch will be something different 😀
I was waiting to see where you were planning to place that rack. That rack might get too heavy for the 2nd story. Make sure that floor is reinforced or at least can handle the load on it.
Great home project. Congrats on making this build.
Thank you!
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.
Cool setup and videos, thank you. What do you use for cooling? Or is the heat not a problem right now? Did you get a UPS too?
Just a heads up I don't think it's a Fibre Channel card in your firewall it's just a 10gbit SFP+ card. Fibre Channel is a very specific thing for SANs and I don't think the XGS2100 directly supports Fibre Channel SANs.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_Channel for anyone interested.
Hi Christian, cool project! Looking forward for the rest. In general I would recommend a managed switch that's supports vlan's for a project like this, the unmanaged one you use right now seems like a divestment. And a small correction: 10 Gbps ethernet over fibre is not the same as fibre channel.
Thanks! Yeah a managed switch is already planned ;)
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I suppose you are confusing Fiber Channel (that is for Storage / SAN Purposes with Speeds of 4/8/16/32Gbps) with Network Fiber Optics. FC and SFP+ is a total different thing..
Yeah, I always confuse it in my head, I don't know if thats ever going away 🤦♂️
Which of your many videos is the follow-up that talks about your firewall, etc?
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Mein Lieber, sehr gutes Video!
Wenn ich das richtig sehe, steht dein Rack auf dem Dachboden. Durch ständige Temperaturwechsel auf dem Dachboden verringert sich die Lebensdauer deiner HDDs, wollte ich nur mal anmerken.
Vielen Dank, guter Tipp! Ja der Platz ist nicht optimal, aber bis zum Influencer in der Dubai Penthouse Wohnung dauert es noch ein bisschen 😀
Look at second hand switches. i bought a managed poe capable 24port switch for arround 50.
Yeah that's not a bad idea, haven't thought about it honestly.
The cheapest way to get 10Gigabit is to use SFP+ ports. I thing there is a microtik switch using SFP+ ports
Would be great to get a link in your Kit on the rack mountable case you are using!
Oh thats true! Let me add this tomorrow 😀
I am waiting for your 10g network. I hope, it is not too much cost for setup at home.
Well it depends on the switch/router the cards and cables aren't so expensive
Where do I connect the ground wire on patch panel to?
Lovely build, am planning myself a similar one using Startech.. just havent plonked the money into it getting a Rack.. got a couple of Precisions running as my Hypervisor (VMware workstation tho )..a few Cisco switches for learning networking..
but just curious as to how much you would incur as costs towards running these 24/7 or what strategy do you use for cost optimizations'.. ?
I don't use any professional server (besides my firewall and switch), that what keeps the power consumption low. And I try to not run too much all the time, that's all I can do.
I wish i had a place to put rack mounted devices in my home. Its small and the noise is to much. I am trying to find desktop server but they are so much more expensive for some reason.
Yeah that has been an issue for me as well :/ Maybe if you have an old desktop PC you can turn it into a server, but the Rack isn't cheap indeed.
What about noise and heating?
Hey I need help and suggestion for planning my Home network. I am very interested in the following scenario: I want to set up my home network so that I can access it via a VPN from the Internet (for example hosting a VPN Server) and at the same time I want to route all of my network traffic via a VPN Provider. How is this possible?
So in the Best case I can connect then to my Home network via my self hosted VPN and my traffic to the internet will routed over my Home network and then over the external VPN Provider to the internet even it I am not at home. Then there are a lot of possibilities to secure the home network and all this mechanisms apply to All my devices and to the devices which are connected to my home network via VPN.
I think it should be possible but can someone give my any advises how to achieve this goal?
I would be very thankful!
Did you work with the Sophos UTM before and if so, which one do you like more SG or XG?
I worked a little with UTM in the past, and it had some advantages. But with every new version, XG becomes better and better, and I now like it much more than UTM.
The rails are missing on the kit page?
Oh, yeah I forgot that, added it now to the server rack build, thanks for letting me know!
@@christianlempa thx
Feier deine Videos extrem! Bin da auf der genau gleichen Ebene unterwegs, habs nur bisher leider etwas übertrieben und weiß aktuell nicht was ich mit meinen 800GB RAM auf meinem "kleinen" Gemischten VMware Cluster anstellen soll:D
Anyway: Wie bist du an die XGS gekommen? Hast du dort tatsächlich so tief in die Tasche gegriffen? Dann aber schon mit der Home Lizenz, gell?
Vielen Dank! Okay 800GB erscheinen da echt etwas .. viel :D Die XGS läuft aktuell mit einer richtigen Lizenz, die hardware appliances laufen ohne weiteres so nicht mit der Home Lizenz. Da ich bei Sophos arbeite bekomme ich das als teststellung.
Chris, why the heck did you get a rack? :D yes it's cool but rack mounted servers have the worst airflow and PSUs are super expensive. I stick with my tower. Although for networking the point goes for a rack.
And jau.. lot of storage! What are you storing there? Do we even want to know? ;)
Seriously why from tower to rack? Maybe I am missing smth
The rack was super fun! Btw, you won't believe how much storage 4k footage consumes 😉
Assembled
Please, make a tutorial about installing arch Linux on Window?
Man
I almost thought you were undecided's brother
like need more videos the related
Why are these servers so quiet?
Because they’re DIY :)
Whats that beeping noise. its freaking me out. i keep thinking my alarm is going off
Don't know what you mean
@@christianlempa its between 9min and 10min. But i believe its parts of the song. it just sounds so similar to my alarmclock hahaha
@@maxime_vhw Haha yeah that's part of the song :D
cute, but it lacks some major things: 1) cable management, 2) recessed rails, 3) lights, and 4) cooling. I won't detail why you need/want each of these - you should already know why if you ARE a networking PROFESSIONAL.
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So who copys who here? Tim or you?
I guess we're both stealing from each other 🤣
Very good but you speak too quickly and the presentation of your Home Lab is very fast