Compact homelab with 3 mini PCs, a 16 TB NAS and Proxmox in a 10-inch rack
Hardware.com.br has featured a homelab that stands out for its small size. A Reddit user posted on r/HomeServer a small 10-inch rack with a firewall, three mini PCs, a NAS and all the network infrastructure needed to run dozens of services at home.
The processing is handled by three mini PCs, each with an 8-core, 16-thread processor and 32 GB of RAM, adding up to 24 cores, 48 threads and 96 GB for virtualization. It uses Proxmox to create virtual machines and LXC containers. The workloads include a VM for Jellyfin, the so-called arr stack running in Docker, another Docker host with Portainer, Pi-hole and dashboards such as Homer and Homepage, plus game servers such as Terraria and Core Keeper.
Storage sits in an HP ProLiant MicroServer with four 4 TB hard drives in ZFS RAIDZ1, which lets you keep accessing the data even if one disk fails. That gives 16 TB raw, with less usable space because of the parity. The network is controlled by a Fortinet FortiGate, which takes care of routing, VLANs and SSL VPN, and an APC Back-UPS 850 uninterruptible power supply protects against power cuts.
In my opinion, the most interesting part is outside the house: the owner keeps two Debian VPSs in external data centers, connected to the homelab by a WireGuard network in a hub-and-spoke configuration. They act as the public layer of the infrastructure, with Traefik serving as the reverse proxy.
It is a good example that a homelab does not need a giant rack: with planning, small boxes and good organization, you can run a lot in little space.
Source: Hardware.com.br
The processing is handled by three mini PCs, each with an 8-core, 16-thread processor and 32 GB of RAM, adding up to 24 cores, 48 threads and 96 GB for virtualization. It uses Proxmox to create virtual machines and LXC containers. The workloads include a VM for Jellyfin, the so-called arr stack running in Docker, another Docker host with Portainer, Pi-hole and dashboards such as Homer and Homepage, plus game servers such as Terraria and Core Keeper.
Storage sits in an HP ProLiant MicroServer with four 4 TB hard drives in ZFS RAIDZ1, which lets you keep accessing the data even if one disk fails. That gives 16 TB raw, with less usable space because of the parity. The network is controlled by a Fortinet FortiGate, which takes care of routing, VLANs and SSL VPN, and an APC Back-UPS 850 uninterruptible power supply protects against power cuts.
In my opinion, the most interesting part is outside the house: the owner keeps two Debian VPSs in external data centers, connected to the homelab by a WireGuard network in a hub-and-spoke configuration. They act as the public layer of the infrastructure, with Traefik serving as the reverse proxy.
It is a good example that a homelab does not need a giant rack: with planning, small boxes and good organization, you can run a lot in little space.
Source: Hardware.com.br
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