u/Creative-Pin3389

Hey fellow homelabbers 💻

I was wondering if anyone here has been in a similar situation before and what you think about my planned next steps.

My homelab slowly evolved from “a few VMs” into more infrastructure, so I finally decided to redesign the whole thing properly.

Current setup:

• HPE MicroServer Gen10 Plus running Proxmox
• hosting different Docker containers/services
• HPE MicroServer Gen8 as PBS backup target
• HPE Instant On 1930 switch
• OPNsense firewall (possibly Fortigate later)

Main issues:

• organically grown setup
• no proper management VLANs
• PBS restore workflow feels clunky
• Gen8 getting old
• USB-attached NVMe jank 😄

Planned redesign:

• new Ryzen 5700X Proxmox host
• ASRock Rack X570D4U with IPMI
• 64 GB RAM initially
• 10G SFP+ networking
• mirrored NVMe + HDD storage
• quiet tower build

Network redesign:

• more VLAN separation
• dedicated management/storage networks
• possible subnet redesign during migration
• maybe Fortigate later

Backup redesign:

• replacing PBS with Veeam CE
• Gen10 Plus becomes backup server
• mirrored backup storage
• maybe offsite backups later

Do you guys think this is already overkill, or did your homelab also grow organically over time? 😄

TL;DR:
Moving from a “randomly evolved homelab” to a cleaner prosumer infrastructure setup with:

• Ryzen + Proxmox
• IPMI
• 10G
• VLAN redesign
• Veeam backups
• quieter + more efficient hardware
• room for future expansion 😄