I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs
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I've moved everything to the cloud.
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We maintain a large lab because one of the key factors for a home lab is running it over time and the cloud gets expensive for that. Ephemeral workloads are great for learning engineering tasks but terrible for administration.
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@VoIP_n00b said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:
I've moved everything to the cloud.
Same, way cheaper than having something at home, like 1000+ fold cheaper.
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Is it weird that I don't have a home lab for the last few years? I have just been spinning up environments at work to learn things on when needed as the tech is likely work related anyway...
To clarify, the work lab environments are not running on production kit so no risk to them. Its old hardware that is new enough to keep, but old enough to not be prod. So, no risk to prod... why take up room at home...
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So I decided to upgrade. :). Weekend project while I’m sick. Vms created, moving all data now. This is MUCH quieter than the r710.
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@AdamF said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:
So I decided to upgrade. :). Weekend project while I’m sick. Vms created, moving all data now. This is MUCH quieter than the r710.
So moving to the cloud or upgrading hardware?
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@AdamF said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:
So I decided to upgrade. :). Weekend project while I’m sick. Vms created, moving all data now. This is MUCH quieter than the r710.
I have an R710 and its pretty quiet.
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@Pete-S said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:
@AdamF said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:
So I decided to upgrade. :). Weekend project while I’m sick. Vms created, moving all data now. This is MUCH quieter than the r710.
So moving to the cloud or upgrading hardware?
Upgrading hardware. I decided that I like having my systems in house, and between my plex server, photo backups, lab VMs, Pi-hole ,etc, it just makes sense for me personally to have it in house.
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@black3dynamite said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:
@AdamF said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:
So I decided to upgrade. :). Weekend project while I’m sick. Vms created, moving all data now. This is MUCH quieter than the r710.
I have an R710 and its pretty quiet.
That's what I thought too. but the R630 is even quieter! now I just have to upgrade my network switch to a fanless one, and I'll be all set.
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@AdamF said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:
@black3dynamite said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:
@AdamF said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:
So I decided to upgrade. :). Weekend project while I’m sick. Vms created, moving all data now. This is MUCH quieter than the r710.
I have an R710 and its pretty quiet.
That's what I thought too. but the R630 is even quieter! now I just have to upgrade my network switch to a fanless one, and I'll be all set.
We already have lots of colo servers at work for testing where I can run whatever I want but having some stuff on the home LAN is nice.
So I'm thinking about building something around this supermicro chassis for SOHO use:
It's roughly 10" in all dimensions. It has 4x3.5" hotswap (SAS/SATA) and two internal 2.5". Takes micro-itx sized motherboards of which Supermicro has a couple of serverboards that fits. Can't go crazy because there are thermal restrictions but that wasn't the intention either. More along the lines of a small Xeon CPU and maybe 64GB RAM or so and a couple of drives.
