Techno Tim HomeLab and NEW Server Room Tour! (Late 2021)
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- Well, here it is! My Late 2021 Server Rack and HomeLab tour! This is a special one because I just revamped and remodeled a spot in the basement for my new data center / server room (still picking out a name for it). I've upgraded, replaced, added, and consolidated quite a bit since my last tour! New servers, new networking, new UPS, new Raspberry Pi, and even a whole entire wall of tech gear. I also added lots of automation and IoT devices! Join me as we walk through my server room upgrade!
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00:00 - Intro
01:01 - HomeLab Music Video
02:23 - Enter the new server room!
02:55 - Safety First
03:20 - Lights, Sensors, Automation
05:32 - Temperature Monitoring
05:59 - The Tech Wall
06:38 - Steel Pegboards
07:01 - Cables Galore
07:27 - Network Jacks & Internet
08:10 - Hue Hub
08:35 - PoE Raspberry Pi 4
09:09 - UniFi Flex Mini
10:04 - HD Homerun
10:45 - Intel NUC
11:50 - Pi Zero
12:54 - AP 850 UPS
13:33 - The other wall
13:57 - Cloud Lamp
14:27 - Power Strips
15:15 - Cameras
15:41 - Server Rack
16:41 - APC 1500VA UPS & Shelf
17:18 - Patch Panel
18:05 - UniFi 24 Port Poe Gen 2 Switch Pro
19:02 - UDM Pro
19:42 - Home Security
20:35 - Cisco Switch
20:58 - SuperMicro 1u Servers (hopefully they won u over)
21:59 - PC Conversion Server
22:56 - Disk Shelf
23:50 - Tripp Lite 1500VA UPS
24:35 - What's next for me?
24:54 - What's next for you?
25:04 - Stream Highlight - Is that a Meta Sweatshirt???
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What's the next thing you want to upgrade in your HomeLab?
server cabinet 😐, now i have raspberry Pi's and NUC sitting on a plastic fruit basket.
Bought a new supermicro board X10SRL-F-O for a E5-2680 V3. With new memory
Storage from hard disk to SSD!
I need a sexy server case to replace my supermicro workstation chassis.
Can you share The Pi Zero Code?
My Inner Child: _"Yay, lots of blinky lights!"_
My outer self! “Yay, lots of blinky lights!”
I just did my rack tour. Then today I ordered a new server and 8x12TB drives. It really is never done :-D
I saw it! So awesome! Wish I could get higher density drives like that!
Home labs are never ending 🤓
This looks great Tim. Time to redo my rack as well. Thanks for the inspiration
Tim! Congrats on the over 64k subs sir, always good to see someone do good, great tour, and nice job on the homelab upgrades. My next upgrades will be load balancing, and redundancy, I'll be looking through library for the how to's. Looking forward to the new content!
Thank you so much!
You have become my favourite TH-camr, your videos are super informative and easy to follow. I'm an infrastructure engineer but your videos have helped me on my path to DevOps. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much!
This is the most ridiculously over-engineered home lab I've ever seen. I love it. Keep cranking out the great content, Tim
Haha! Thanks!
WOW! That looks sick! The wall has seen major improvements since last year! Well done!
One small thing - try to decrease the angle at which the hue hub power wire goes in. Or just give it some slack 👍 It might save some headache in the long-run.
Thank you!
2022 energy ouch! Love the setup, big wows!
Great video Tim! Look’s awesome. Looking forward to see what you do next!
Thanks 👍
Love the tour! So many great ideas in there. :)
My next necessary move is building a NAS. I have all the components I want to use (from old builds) but just need to find a case with removeable storage and good airflow that can support an ATX board.
Cool tour, you should be proud of the changes you have wrought! Congrats and best wishes for a productive 2022.
Thank you!
That's beautiful, Tim! Very nicely done!
Thank you!
I’ve been waiting for this! Thanks Tim!
Hope you like it!
Thanks for the server tour, awesome, have a great day
Thanks for coming
“Das Blinken Lightzens”!!! Looks great!!
I'm really glad I found this channel! This is awesome!
Thank you so much!
hey tim, sweet set up dude i appreciate you sharing, thanks
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing! Great to see how you do things, gives me lot of ideas
You are so welcome!
Awesome video. I'm new to home labs and realize I have a lot to learn. However, I at least have a hardware guide, because of your video.
That's so cool! It's like something outta star trek!
Thank you! It helps me boldy go where no man has gone before!
Those peg boards are so cool! Great find.
Thank you!
Dang, I wish I could dedicate an entire room to this stuff too! I've only got a small closet so raspberry pis in a Kubernetes cluster are running most of my services. I've got an old PC I'm using to run some Plex stuff, hopefully I can upgrade that soon!
Thank you! This was a storage closet before I remodeled it!
Maybe at some point Graphics cards are working on pis and you can throw away that old PC and save some energy with another Raspberry Pi + GPU for Plex/Jellyfin instead :P
I would love to hear how did you managed to have more then one instance of pihole synced and balanced!
I think for using few instances just need to write them as main/backup DNS in the DHCP server, then sync can be done with gravity-sync or some "manual" scripts
I do not know if you have one, but an fire extinguisher is a big must in a server room :D
Other then that, awesome tour.
Really liked it and hopefully i can soon get my server room in order.
Good call! Thank you!
@@TechnoTim In addition to an ABC fire extinguisher, I would recommended a D fire extinguisher also.
YESSS, LATE HOMELAB TOUR!! ❤❤
wow a really nice HomeLab, in my case I just started one with a pfsense FW, Ubiquiti Unifi Lite AP and a dell optiplex as my proxmox, starting again from zero hopefully one day I can have something similar or smaller to what you have. Great explanation of the entire setup and love the videos, are really nice and go to the point.
That a sicko setup!, back when I use to have servera on my lan, had it all running on a box inside my closet. That thing was hot af.
Haha thanks!
Nice video man! Kudos, for the beautiful footage
Glad you enjoyed it
@@TechnoTim would love to see more of them K8s or a in depth rancher tutorial
WICKED content ! Nice work Tim !!
Thank you!
Jesus You dont have mercy with Your home lab.... its beatifull! I see how many work You put in this to that effect :)
Thank you!
Whoever said those patch cables catch fire are crazy. They are used in AWS and Aure datacenters. Presumably GCP datacenters as well.
I got from having my servers under my desk to have my own Server Room in our new house. It was our hugest upgrade. Next upgrade in the next year will be upgrade from workstations to a rack server with 64 GB ram (going to upgrade to more) and having 12 cores 24 threads instead of having 4 cores and 8 thread and 16 GB ram!
Great setup! My next upgrade is to actually get backups in place for my setup. You mention you have your PC conversion server making a local backup but that you also have a cloud backup, could you say what service/application you use for your cloud backups?
Also I wonder if you might consider going over your backup scheme for such a complex setup as a video topic? E.g., you have a virtualized docker host, do you back up the virtual disk image file? The docker compose and persistent volume files on that disk? "Configuration backups" exported from the apps you have containerized? All or some combination of the above? Do you just keep a copy of the latest or do you have some form of incremental backup and retention going? It would be interesting to hear your thoughts on what you choose to back up at what level and why.
Ping me in Discord and I can send you a link to the service I use along with a free month
It's way to clean.. This must be a CGI 😜
Looks good dude 👌
Thanks 😅
I love the pegboard idea instead of trying to shove that onto a shelf. I'm just putting together my rack now and the worst part is having my cable modem, Hue and Hubitat just sitting freely on the shelf.
🔥🔥🔥 Awesome work 🔥🔥🔥
Thanks 🔥
Fantastic setup, really inspiring video. This type of lab is one of these things I’m planning when (if?) I move to a house.
As always one concern when I see lab like this: how much the electricity cost? For your lab I think it’s in a range of 1k USD/year but would be great if you could share your number.
Ah! One more point: how about cooling? Any issues while running it w/o air conditioning?
Love your videos, please keep sharing your attitude, passion and knowledge 👍
electricity cost depend on your region. My 400w whole server costs 10$ per month. Its air cooled with his own fans and runs great
Looking good!
Thank you!
Cool home lab
I just picked up an i3 desktop I'll be converting into a storage server for now. Planning between the onboard sata and later an hba to kit it out. Your storage rack gave me some good ideas
Thank you
Nice!
Awesomeness
Great setup ;)
Thanks!
beautiful
I have a Sysracks 37U rack. Best bang-for-the-buck rack I could find, and 37U is *exactly* the right height to roll through doors.
Love the setup, and I think I'm going to steal some of your ideas. One thing I'm curious about is cooling/venting the room? What is in place to help keep things cool? My issue right now is much like you, I have a very similar sized space in my basement (albeit unfinished), but during the summers the room hovers at around 80F. I have fans and a window and I try to cycle cool air in at night. During the winters for me, it's not a problem... other then if I leave the window cracked, I will get alarms on my proxmox nodes that they are too cold. heh... Anyway, love what you've done with the space, and this video is inspiring me to finish my server room and get things more in order!
Thank you! yeah, I have until summer to figure out cooling. I had some of it running on a few warm days and it got up to 80, which isn't too bad since that's what Google now recommends.
How did you managed to add separate instance of traefik on RPi? And who decides when it needs to pass traffic through it? I'm using unifi security gateway and I can only forward 443/80 ports to the one IP, so I'm using floating IP with keepalived for that and then using few synced instances of traefik (with swarm and glusterfs). Very isteresting how did you managed to make it Hight Available! :)
As a homelab and home grow enthusiast, that was a grow room haha.
3 things I hold dear to me. My AV/Server rack, grow room, and my wife.
Christmas lights at 1:05 is pretty :)
*opens a beer*
Looks great! Did you have trouble with your NetApp chassis not reading Drive bay 0 correctly? I've got 2 4246 chassis to a R840 and both do the same thing.
Mine works fine!
man ... i envy you :))
cool video , thanks
Tim, can you recommend an external hard drive for transferring photos, documents, and videos from an iPhone 14Pro and a MacBook Pro? So confused with all that is out there!
Nicely done! I use the same boards in my garage for tools and stuff. They’re great! Is this room also in the basement? Makes it easy to keep cool. My server closet is on the second floor of the house so it’s a harder to keep cool. I ran it for about 7 years leaving the door open to keep cool. The fans weren’t too bad until I added a Synology NAS. They’re an odd size of fan so I can’t replace them, but those things roar. I’ve had it planned for a while, but finally added an exhaust fan so I could close the door to that closet. I can still hear the fans, but much better with the door shut. The room still gets a bit warm, but at least it’s getting sucked out now.
Nice! Love them too! yeah, it's in the basement so free cooling in the summer and some free heat in the winter!
Tim, how much power needs your server room ?
🔥🔥🔥
I'm planning a similar (but smaller) project and the whole time I thought where to put my Hue Bridge and WiFi access point (inside is not an option). Seeing your wall at 0:19 just hit me: My preferred rack has rails in the front and the back. A simple 2U mesh like panel on the backside and those things can be placed there. So thanks for the inspiration. ;-)
nice idea!
What do you use Tim for screws on the pegboard to hold your devices?
Well I just upgraded to (2) Dell R-620 servers. One is running TrueNAS Core, the other Proxmox. Deciding what to do with the 610, might just turn that into storage. Just installed a UDM pro Dream machine. Which is living up to it's name, as far as Network Security is a factor. Setting up VPN's, World wide threat security, and Identifying servers are a dream.
But I have to admit that the HD Homerun caught my eye. As our provider is raising rates ...again.
Awesome! Congrats on server. Yes, HDHomerun is aweomse
What is your monthly power bill?
The next step for me is to add external cooling system to my dedicated homelab building. Can't wait. 🖥️🖥️
I ordered this week the UniFi USW Aggregation Switch, UnifiSwitch 8GE Ports POE 150W and a UniFI DAC SFP+ 0.5M.
Nice!
nice server home lab. Question, how are you able to maximize the machines?
Probably isn't looks awesome but competely pointless and overkill. You don't need a rack this fully loaded to run some basic automation and other bits.
this looks great!!! I'm just waiting on my 10gig Unifi switch then I'll be redoing some stuff..
Nice!
11:53 @TechnoTim great video! I am using your pi-wol script. Quick question. In your script HOSTNUM=0 does that need to be modified to the number of hosts in the list? How does the string of hosts Correlate to the string of Mac addresses? Example: host 4 in the list was down but the script attempted to send packets to the number 1 Mac address in list vs matching number 4 Mac address. Thanks man!
I was wondering at how much you keep you server room? Like 23 celcius(74F) ?
Where do you collect the case for the PC server? Is it available on amazon or eBay?
*grabs extra large popcorn*
🍿🍿
sorry to ask how exactly it is helpful i mean in how many ways like storage deploying ec2 like that??
Your Home lab looks fantastic! You have helped me a lot with my home lab; thank you
Thank you!
I’m currently working on some network configuration changes in my homelab. I’m actually trying to isolate my 2 server machines from the rest of my home network, but also keep inter-net communication. So doing some cool stuff with route tables, firewlling. But the real reason I’m doing this is I want to start diskless net booting one server from my other storage server
For me I scored a cheep ryzen 7 2700x For like $167 if I do a quick conversion and it's going to be my first rack mount pc and new Xcp-ng host for my first cluster
Can you detail how you’re attaching the metal wall panels? What sort of attachment hardware and stand-offs?
Hey! This was tough to figure out but I ended up creating stand offs by splitting a 2x4 and mounting that to the wall, then using hanger bolts amzn.to/3Hp2AJ2 and wing nuts
@@TechnoTim Related follow-up. I'm curious how you're attaching things like the fiber modem, Hue Bridge, Raspberry PI, etc to the metal pegboard. No obvious attachment hardware. I see a few zip ties but a lot of them are just floating - magnets perhaps?
Great videos. I have 2 netapp ds4243, ussing iom3 and iom12. Currently not running but i dont have the hba controller. What are you ussing?
DS4243 work ussing iom12? Thanks!!
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Lutron and Crestron lighting can match and exceed Philips with ease. Just requires a professional to install and commission.
Electrocution board anyone? lol looks pretty though!
I'm surprised that you arent running Home Assistant. Awesome setup👍
Thanks! I use to but the integration with Nest was poor. It’s better now so I might give it a go again!
Maybe one day i can have somthing like this. ill be saving half my life most likely lol
I'd keep the footage - it's part of your history man, you've gotta keep it!!
The way I'd do it is to get a whack of 3TB SAS drives (if you watch for sales, you should still be able to get them for $6-8/TB); connect it to some other system you're not typically using, any old dell or whatever. Set up a script that sends a WoL packet to that server once a month or whatever to boot the server, zfs send the changes, then power down the server after. Super cheap way to have a backup system which holds your older data in a cold-tier-like way
Thanks! Great idea!
If youd like a copy of the script I use, lemme know and I'll sanitize it and send it over. It's really pretty simple - so simple, it's never broken... yet *knocks on wood* 😅
I'm sure you could knock it out in no time, but if it saves you reinventing the wheel, why not right? Lol
You should look into compressing the old youtube archival footage with something like tdarr. Will automatically go through and compress video files using ffmpeg (and gpu acceleration if you have them) across multiple different nodes. and then save the completed data, either in place or in a new folder.
All runnable from docker.
Bonus benefit is it will can also encode your plex media to all the same format and codec. eg i have set mine to convert all my plex media to hvec with mkv container to save on sotrage space.
It would also probably be a cool video series to set it all up, especially across different nodes etc.
Great idea! Thank you!
We’re building a new home, so naturally I’m going to have it outfitted with hardwired networking in all rooms, it’ll have 4 UniFi APs and 4 UniFi PoE cameras. I’m debating if I want to go with the USW Pro 24 PoE or the non-pro version. Any recommendations?
If you're buying for the next 5 years I would go with the pro. There are a few good reddit posts that sum up the differences
If memory serves me right you are running home assistant, right? If so, why do you use the HUE bridge instead of a zigbee stick like the conbee II with zigbee2mqtt?
Awesome lab btw :) looks amazing
Thank you! I had to stop using HA because of the lack of proper Nest support. I think that's changed recently so I may start using it again!
@@TechnoTim Cool, I am still not sure if they support the nest smoke detectors though. I sure hope so since I got em as well and hope to integrate them :)
That was 100% a grow room they had to pass off as something practical for listing. I would bet my entire homelab on it. ;)
lol, circuit box said "Sauna"
@@TechnoTim To be fair thats probably just as plausible really... I've just spent too long living in socal, haha
I'm looking for a TrueNAS storage solution. Yours seems like something I could do with 1U SM server and NetApp chassis. If you were going to do it again today would you have done something different?
Nope, same, still running it today. I can't justify paying more ATM
@TechnoTim where did you get the plates with holes for your wall to mount the router etc on?
here you go! amzn.to/3bJ8R4s
Do you have a video about that Pi-Zero pinging and rebooting?
I don’t but the code is in my github!
Where do you get those clear ethernet cables? They look cool
Here! kit.co/TechnoTim/techno-tim-homelab-tour-late-2022
That power cord plugged into the hue bridge is stretched rather tight, no?
Yes!
Hi, what slide rails do you use for the chenbro case? I have a similar chenbro case, but the rails I got, can only be mounted, such that it uses half a U on top and bottom more
Rails/shelf link in description!
How much energy do you consume per month just with your homelab? Have you measured it?
Was looking for this question but sadly no answer :)
Tim is probably too busy with his 2nd fulltime job so he can pay the electricity bill ;)
Huge fan of your channel and work! Very inspiring
Would you be able to share the amount of money you poured into this home lab just to get a sense? While this is great playground to learn a bunch of cool stuff, an average person doesn't need such heavy IT firepower.
Check out my kits! It’s all there! I just did a video on a low power server too! kit.co/TechnoTim
nice design. How long did it take you to install all of the kit
Thank you! If you are asking about the wall kit, not too long. I made it a little more complicated than the average person but that’s my specialty!
@@TechnoTim would love to see the network diagram. Especially how you have split up the VLANs and if you are using VMWorkstation to do that
Awesome video Tim. I love your videos. I am planning to virtualize my bare metal pfSense installation and Unifi Controller using Proxmox very soon. My machine has 4GB RAM, will it be enough for Promox Host + pfSense VM + Unifi Controller VM.
It will but that means little ram for each. Go at least 8gb if you can
Also, thank you!
awesome setup! How many Watts does that room use ? :)
Thank you! you can see it on my UPS in the video ;) This is pretty much max load though, I don't run it this hard daily.
for the amount of stuff you have running 24x7 that's not bad kudos!
Just curious what is the dedicated power rating of the circuit for running your server rack?
20a
What usage CPU you got on udm pro? I got 4 cam, 3 AP and CPU utilization over 70%
Mine hangs around 30-50
okay... so the only thing is upgraded this year is the lights... good job.
I think you missed 00:00
You should be able to remove the fiber modem and directly plug the fiber SFP connector in the UDM Pro, removing that crappy modem from the network path altogether. Otherwise nice setup!
I’ll test it out!
I doubt it would even be noticeable, but do you notice any interference or latency in your network because of the steel peg board?
Not that I am aware of. I get full gigabit when transferring, so seems good :)
how loud/quiet is in that room? Would be nice if you recorded a bit of real audio from there for a few seconds...
Thank you so much!
My home lab is only two raspberrys 3b+ and a mikrotik router nowadays, but I want to buy a simple tower PC for proxmox all the servers I want :D
Bios Option... Power on when AC Power is Restored is a thing dude!