My lab hasn’t changed very much in the last month, just moved my Mastodon instance into the on-prem Kubernetes cluster.

Hardware wise, any ideas what I could do with an old X8 SuperMicro 36-bay storage server? I haven’t used it in a number of years due to it’s age, the IPMI not working well, and the physical power buttons being destroyed when I got it shipped. It also uses a bunch of power.

I also have a tray of ~16 old NUCs from an eBay purchase a few years ago. I don’t think they have remote management, and as such are a bit of a pain to work on. I’d consider adding them as workers for my Kube cluster, but haven’t been able to figure out netboot :/

Not much change, but now here instead of elsewhere.

Running a three node Cloudstack still. One management/storage node on a Raspberry Pi 4, and two compute nodes. Been testing software on it as needed, next probably try various Linux desktops. A Home Assistant with a few z-wave smart home devices and a dedicated tablet with Fully Kiosk Browser. Home server running DNS, wireguard, Plex, Unifi controller, and other various services.

A raspberry with Adguard + unbound, a zimaboard with truenas scale running the -arr suite, nextcloud, homeassistan, homarr, headscale and caddy 2x2TB nvme and 3x 4tb HDD I recently got a new PC and I think I will convert it to being part of the homelab, it has a ryzen 7 3xxx and a 2070 super.

It’s semi stabilized:

4 Dell optiplex 5060s with Intel i5-8500 and 64 gb of ram. Each has 3 800GB sata ssds, with 2 1TB nvme drives; and a dual 10gb sfp nic.

That runs VMware vSphere with vSAN from VMUG. That runs AD, windows Admin center, puppet and some Linux VMs I have, mostly Rocky 8 but want to move to 9.

I also have one stand alone optiplex 5050 micro that is a AD controller. This is for cold starting the environment and needing DNS and AD up.