The Ghetto Homelab

Here’s a quick look at the front of the rack.

• Cat 6e Patch Panel to Rear of Cabinet
• Brocade ICX6610-48P – 48xGige (PoE), 8x SFP+ 10GB, 2x 40GBps (QSFP+), 2x QSFP+->4xSFP
  • Used as a aggregation switch for 1gig devices and PoE. Connected via 40Gbps to Core switch (rear)
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• 1U Uptyme Combo Monitor/Keyboard Tray, Monitor supports
• Supermicro X8STi, Intel Xeon W3520 4 cores @ 2.67Ghz, 8GB Ram, Intel XL710 40GB, 128GB SSD Boot, 4x1Gig
• Supermicro X8STi, Intel Xeon W3520 4 cores @ 2.67Ghz, 8GB Ram, Intel XL710 40GB, 128GB SSD Boot, 4x1Gig – pfSense Firewall
• Cisco UCS c220 m5sx – vSAN ESA Cluster (esxi03)
  • Dual Intel® Xeon® Gold 6248 24-Core 3GHz Cascade Lake CPU, 256GB RAM, UCSC-MLOM-C40Q-03 (Dual 40Gb QSFP+), 2x Dual Intel RJ45 10Gb, 2x 960GB SSD1 U2 TOSHIBA CM5 NVME KCM5DRUG960G Solid State U.2 Drives (vSAN ESA), 256GB SSD (Boot)
• Cisco UCS c220 m5sx – vSAN ESA Cluster (esxi06)
  • Dual Intel® Xeon® Silver 4214R Processor 14c/28t CPU, 256GB Ram, Dual 40Gig MLOM, Dual RJ45 10Gb, 1x INTEL SSDSC2BB960G7 960GB SSD1, 1x SAMSUNG MZ7WD960HMHP-00003 960GB SSD (Both used for vSAN ESA), 128GB SSD Boot, TPM 2.0 chip, Telsa A400 GPU.
• Cisco UCS c240 m4sx – vSAN ESA Cluster (esxi04)
  • Dual Intel Xeon E5-2683 v4 16c/32t CPU, 256GB Ram, Dual 40Gig MLOM, Dual Intel 1Gb, 1x INTEL SSDSC2BB960G7 960GB SSD, 1x SAMSUNG MZ7WD960HMHP-00003 960GB SSD (Both used for vSAN ESA), 256GB SSD Boot, TPM 2.0 chip, Telsa
    • Using nVidia vGPU.
• Cisco UCS c240 m5sx – vSAN ESA Cluster (esxi05)
  • Dual Intel® Xeon® Gold 6248 24-Core 3GHz Cascade Lake CPU, 256GB Ram, Dual 40Gig MLOM, Dual RJ45 10Gb, 1x INTEL SSDSC2BB960G7 960GB SSD, 1x SAMSUNG MZ7WD960HMHP-00003 960GB SSD (Both used for vSAN ESA), 256GB SSD Boot.
• Dell R720 – Dual Intel E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz, 192GB Ram, 8x16TB SAS Drives, Intel XL710 40GB, Mellanox ConnectX3 40Gb, Perc (Flashed to IT), 2TB Sata SSD connected to internal SATA port for boot.
  • ESXi 8.0 – TrueNAS VM, h710 and Mellanox ConnectX-3 Passed through
  • 8x 16TB SAS in 8-wide RAIDz2
  • Primarily used as backup of primary NAS. Primary NAS replicates to backup. Only powered on for replication tasks. Primary NAS sends PowerON API command to Dell R720. Once loaded, waits 15 minutes then begins replication jobs. Multiple jobs — replicates Media Volume, Veeam Repo, and VMware Targets.
  • Once replication jobs complete and verified, shuts down host.
• Supermicro CSE-837 Intel E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz 14c/28t, 12x16TB SAS HD in 2x raidz2 vdevs, 128GB RAM, Mellanox MCX4131A-BCAT ConnectX-4 Lx EN 40Gb NIC, 256GB SATA SSD BOOT, 2x 4xPCIe 3.0 to (2) U.2 SFF-8639 Adapter Card with 4x 960GB NVMe Drives, 1x Dual M.2 PCIE Adapter for PCIE with 2x Micron 7300 Pro 480GB MTFDHBA480TDF-1AW1ZABYY NVME w/PLP for SLOG
  • ESXi 8.0
  • TrueNAS VM, HBA, 4x 960GB NVME, 2x 480GB NVME passed through.
    • NIC passed through via SR-IOV
    • 2x 6-wide RAIDz2 vdevs, each 6x 16TB 12KRPM SAS Drive
      • SLOG device with PLP with sync writes set. (Micro 7300)
    • 2x Mirror vdevs, 960GB Available per vdev
    • Presents iSCSI targets to ESXi cluster
    • Presents iSCSI targets for Veeam
    • Presents NFS for Media and other storage.
    • NVMe pool for VM high-iop.
  • vCenter runs here, outside of vSAN cluster.
  • Aria / aria logs runs here, outside of vSAN cluster