u/CyberNerdIT

So last time I was using an old photo to show off my homelab so here is the updated picture.

The update is the unas pro 4 and the ups but also cleaned it up a bit.

Thoughts on what I should try using the ryzen 9 5950x and 128gb ram proxmox server for?

Over the last 6 years I have slowly been working on this network at my parents house.

I took the network of cat 5e cables that were run 20 years ago and converted the entire house into a functional network.

Before I got working on the network only 2/4 pairs were actually punched down on the jacks at each point. It was made even worse by being Optimum customers in NYC. (Iykyk)

My parents were using off the shelf wifi routers galore and the internet had to travel the entire 2/4 pair wires up and down 3 flights to get to each “AP”

Fast forward to when I started working at a VoIP company and realized the network could actually be better.

I started with a TP link Omada network (sorry not the best quality photo) and that worked with the old QSee system that was placed on the network. I fought tooth and nail to get a different system because of the security implications of having open network ports to a system the vendor went out of business and were gone from supporting older systems.

Fast forward to two years ago, I heard rumors TP link was about to be banned from the US and I said its getting removed from anyone I support.

I overhauled 3 network environments from TP link Omada to Unifi and have been extremely happy with the decision.

So now in my rack I have two proxmox systems:

-Ryzen 9 5950x with 128gb
-Ryzen 7 5800x with 64gb

I moved away from the HexOS system I had in there cuz it never worked properly, to a unifi drive (not in the picture cuz i cant find one with it)

My last post detailed that I got over 224gb of ddr4 sodimm ram that I was looking into a low powered motherboard and CPU system to use some of that ram to complete my proxmox cluster that should that network go down the system will revert to an offsite system to keep my systems online.

(Working to get a Unifi 5G backup internet connection)

I also moved away from the crappy Q-See system mentioned earlier to a Unifi camera system and have zero complaints about that switch.

In my proxmox cluster, I run a few test VMs for projects I want to experiment with like Wazuh, Windows Server, MineOS, CraftyController, and a few others.

I am currently running on Verizon Fios and love the stability of the connection but the price isnt the best.

I still want to experiment with Starlink and if its reliable to recommend to others for a unifi network.

Lastly, from work I just got 128gb of ECC DRR4 RAM that I will probably make into another server just not sure if I wanna use that in this rack or in my backup system.

I guess now you can rate my setup.

Also if you have any project suggestions im all ears and would love to try them!