I am looking at a few solutions like a Dell R210 II (I have a spare 2x 8GB DDR4 ECC), a Supermicro X10SLH-LN6TF (6x 10Gbe) to build an 元 switch, or a Dell Optiplex SFF adding a few extra ethernets. I want to keep the budget and power consumption as low as possible. I am struggling a bit to decide which solution could fit my current and future needs. The idea is to build/get a dedicated machine for pfsense. I started to read and collect info on pfsense. I am interested in any advice/feedback to get the most out of this homelab, with an eye on security. Eventually start learning Ceph (Is it worth with one drive/1Gbe per compute node?).Learn more about Reverse Proxy (NGINX, Traefik).Learn pfSense and best practices against ransomware.Learn VMs provisioning with Ansible/Terraform.Setting up a security surveillance system.File server/storage for Win/Mac/Linux backups.Experimenting with Proxmox, creating a cluster for the development/testing of containerized applications.4x Seagate IronWolf 4TB HDD (ZFS RaidZ2 for shared containers/VMs storage)ġx QNAP 3TB (mirror) as additional backup solution.2x Samsung 250GB SSD (currently without purposed, maybe L2ARC, ZIL for DB).2x WD Blue 500GB SSD (ZFS mirror for Proxmox host OS).2x 32GB DDR4 ECC (planning to get addition 64GB).I recently started to build my homelab, which includes: Hello Redditors, I am new to this community. r/HomeNetworking - Simpler networking advice. r/pfsense - for all things pfsense ('nix firewall) Might be able to find things useful for a lab. r/hardwareswap - Used hardware, swap hardware.
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