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Are there any building code considerations (e.g., chimney effect for a fire) regarding a multi-floor wiring chase? Isn't this why laundry chutes are no longer permitted in some places?
This doesn't seem that overkill to me other than using fiber optics, although I've done that in the past, unless you're doing exceptionally long runs copper cabling is sufficient even at 10Gbit within a home scenario. Seems like a decent setup.
Plus, I always think fiber is cool
1g lounge: must pad message with 1gig of zeros
10g lounge: must pad with 10 gigs of zeros
100g lounge: must pad with 100gigs of zeros
1t lounge: must pad with 1 terabyte of zeros
100t lounge: intelligence community meet-and-greet
Edit: relevance :)
Nice and clean, great work! If you don't mind me asking, does your energy bill take a huge blow because of this? I had a modest homelab set up and had to start shutting things off due to how much it costs to keep it running I apologize if I missed this info in the blog!
I have 17kw of solar, so usually very close to $0 or below!
Nice setup! I have a very similar Homelab minus the Generac (I regret not getting one before inflation kicked in, especially since I already have LNG to the home.) My only recommendation would be switching your virtualization over to Proxmox (LXC / KVM) and setting up an HA cluster with Ceph and MLAG. It's relatively easy and free and will give you a lot more features than plain ESXi and even free vSphere/vCenter.
Yeah, the price on this genset I think has gone up around $4000 since I bought it, not including the install
I've been meaning to try Proxmox, but my day job heavily relies on ESXi, so its nice having something to mess with at home. I am also running vSphere with an Enterprise licence, so I get all the fancy stuff
This is inspiring. Great work! My homelab is a mess of cables, and half-baked deployments running on old Supermicro and custom servers, that is way too noisy, and probably pulls a lot of power. I wouldn't know, as I've yet to track power usage... (One of those projects I never get around to ';-D) Everything's stacked on a Lack rack, even though I have a 24U rack in a closet doing nothing. This is partly because of sp…
I dunno man, sounds identical to mine...
Is there a post that covers the "why?" of all this? As someone researching maybe running some Ethernet for more stable WiFi and faster Internet access for general stuff, maybe some fiber for infotainment other purposes since it can lengthen various cables, and hooking up some security and nature cameras, I can't fathom why all of this is needed outside of it just being a hobby or running some sort of business (tradin…
One handy trick: I had at least one drop in each room, often one for each wall of the room. Behind the wallplate was a NEMA box with a conduit running straight down to the crawlspace (6' high in my house so hardly "crawl"). That made it easy to pull cable, not only initially but if I found I needed an extra run, which hardly ever happened. Instead of trying to run through a rat's nest of conduit the conduit was a straight shot and then the cables could easily be managed.
Curious why you didn't stack them like... 1. 24p Patch Panel (Odd ports of switch) 2. 48p Switch 3. 24p Patch Panel (Even ports of switch) 4. 1u Cable Mgmt Then you could have bought 4-6" Cat 5e/6a pre-made patch cables to connect in the majority of your patch panel ports. The only cables that would traverse through the cable mgmt panel would be longer cables to the servers in your rack. I have a similar Cisco switch…
If I could re-rack it all, I might make some changes. But that means turning everything off, and I'm not sure when, if ever, I want to do that
I keep meaning to produce a post like this. My setup is not nearly as pretty though. Love to see the cannabis grow operation exhaust fan, haha. Very well done!
I hope you do, we need more like it!
And thanks for sharing your knowledge. Infrastructure has been an off and on hobby, but it’s hard to know how to take it to the next level. Or absurd levels (in the best possible way), in your case.