Passion for managing home servers & storage. Always tinkering with something. Love learning new technologies and exploring new solutions for old problems.

Main homelab specs:

• HPE DL160 Gen9
  • pfSense Router/Firewall
  • [Dual] Intel Xeon E5-2620v3 12c/24t
  • 32GB DDR4 ECC
  • Dual-port 10Gbase-T NIC
• HPE DL360 Gen9 SFF
  • VMware ESXi host
  • [Dual] Intel Xeon E5-2660v3 20c/40t
  • 96GB DDR4 ECC
  • Quad-port 10Gbase-T NIC
  • ~3TB usable storage after RAID
• HPE DL380 Gen9 LFF
  • VMware ESXi host
  • [Dual] Intel Xeon E5-2660v3 20c/40t
  • 128GB DDR4 ECC
  • Dual-port 10Gbase-T NIC
  • ~32TB usable storage after RAID
• Custom Whitebox NAS
  • TrueNAS
  • Intel i5-2500K 4c/4t
  • 8GB DDR4
  • Single-port 1000base-T NIC
  • ~14TB Usable storage after ZFS

Using HAproxy for Layer 4 routing to web server backends. Primarily using Docker to run applications and Traefik for proxying between Docker networks. Utilizing Ansible to orchestrate server deployments. Running Windows Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Certificates, and Federation.