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Mini Rack, HomeLab Stack – Mini Server Rack

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Let’s try this again, but WITHOUT the sponsorship. There’s building a MINI SERVER RACK and then there’s beating Raid Owl in the mini server rack build challenge. Let’s see if I can do both.

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– PiKVM: https://pikvm.org/
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00:00 – Intro
01:34 – Mini Server Rack
02:48 – Network Firewall
04:24 – Cooling
04:56 – Networking
05:40 – Compute & Clients
07:35 – Servers
08:44 – Mini ITX Cluster ARM Board
10:01 – Retro Gaming & More
11:17 – DietPi & PiOS
11:31 – 4 Port KVM
11:49 – KVM over IP
13:53 – Dual Monitors (and Dashboards)
15:23 – Monitor Arm
15:45 – Temperature Monitoring
16:42 – My Thoughts & Regrets

Thank you for watching! .

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  1. @zeal514

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    Tats pretty awesome. Id probably drop the K8s cluster, and have something like hot swappable Harddrives, for like Truenas or something, or some other way of managing storage. This way you can run 2 or 3 for HA proxmox machines, and have the storage be in the NAS. Run a few VM's in the proxmox cluster and a Docker VM as well. I am really digging that router and switch layout on top, its really hard to get that 2.5gb network speed to a mini pc but they are out there. You might need a 2nd switch though, and do something like link aggregation to the proxmox machines, to get like 5gbs internal speeds if thats something that is needed. Itd be nice to atleast have the option for a upgrade in that direction.

  2. @chrisumali9841

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    You've been served great owl lol

  3. @Jackavatar

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    RGB to make it faster!! hahahaha

  4. @-Good4Y0u

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    Didn't you colo recently too?

  5. @burkec33

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    "For you metric people out there …" Ah, the Empire strikes back at metric folks making fun of us with Imperial units (although I still find those jokes hilarious even being familiar with metric).

  6. @terrorpup

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    Nice to see another one in the Wild. I have one as well.I use 7" DWin Monitor that my son Engineered a 3D Plate so I can mount on the front. I have a couple of the small board trays behind it. I used a Beelink, with extra USB Ethernet so that I could pfSense for my firewall. I bought a Banana-Pi Mini-R3 for my wireless access into the my a rack, it sit on the top. I had an X1 from Youyeetoo ( 8G Model ), it's my Proxmox, which is running Minecraft Server, CasaOS, and Red Hat DNS. I bought DeskPi Super6 because I had several CM from different makers, so I am running a Fruit Salad of CM4 ( 3 x RPi, 2 x BPI, and OrangePi. ) I am running Debian 11 w/XFCE and libvirtd on the OrangePi CM-4 with XRDP installed. I remote into the Super6 there, and I am running my back up DNS as Arm Virtual host. The rest of the CM4 are going to be Mini-Kube setup. I have Raspberry Pi 5 and Libre Computer Renegade on the Small Board tray, the Renegade is hookup to a kvm that sits behind the monitor, use that work when I was at Southeast Linux Fest making sure everything was working. The RPi 5 is a GitLab server for my little lab. I found a cheap 8 Port PoE managed switch, but I won't recommend it.

    I have a Uctronics' Desk Rack, it nice 4 server high, that I have 4 x LibreComputer Renegades in that is a Docker Swarm Cluster that I am running 3 off PoE TPLink switch, the 4th I can't because of the 5V fan, but it nice to have a small lab in one area.

    Oh, because this has it own firewall now and WiFi, I create a new VLAN so that seperate from the other 3 networks in my house. Another part of my job is I have to be a Jack of all trades, most Network Engineers don't like you mess with their stuff, so another reason Home Lab are great.

    Since I live in George and my big rack is in my office. I powered down all the bare metal servers so that my electric bill isn't over 500. The small rack is nice because I can cont' to work on Ansible and Docker for my work. Plus, not die from the heat from the big rack. It nice to be able to travel with the rack too. it was a hit at the Southeast Linux Fest. A nice way to show that you don't need a lot of equipment to do home labbing.

    @TechnoTim yes only thing I truly hate is cable management. The rat nest next to the rack is UGLY. I have tired my best to control. I might buy another one as I like to see if I remove the handles can I stack it.

  7. @mariuszpl88

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    What would you recommend for cctv for home? I have bunch of axis and uniview cameras . Im looking for something that would work with both. Thanks

  8. @infidel__sniper

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    How much would this build cost?

  9. @nex1ss

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    Great video, Thanks!
    Does the rack come with a few accessories such as blank plate, tray as default? or just an empty rack?

  10. @grodius

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    yes but i think my pile of components in the corner of the room looks much cooler

  11. @theglowcloud2215

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    And it only cost $17,000.

  12. @tenekevi

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    Bubbly waters? I'm unsubscribing fight fucking now. I bid you adieu, sir.

  13. @igorshubovych

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    My mini review of this video.

    The Upsides:
    – You can eat the whole lunch white watching it
    – It encourages you to go and buy mini rack
    – It has no advertisement of certain VPN products

    The Downsides:
    – It has too many mini reviews, each with 3 Upsides and 3 Downsides
    – It makes you think about how much money and time people waste on their hobbies and how pointless the life is
    – In the end you'd still turn on Netflix to bing watch some show rerun

  14. @SB-qm5wg

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    BSD-based firewall and network drivers issue strikes again.

  15. @52Pi_Maker_Education

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    I just watched your video and I must say, it's absolutely incredible. The creativity, the storytelling, and the production quality are all top-notch. I'm genuinely impressed by the effort and thought you've put into it. Your work is inspiring and it's clear you have a real talent for this. Keep up the fantastic work!

  16. @YSam-rb9bz

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    for the price,why dont just using unifi and a mac mini/mac studio…

  17. @TheAstros5

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    4:33 what did he call that, a "120 mm Hawk Tuah fan?"

  18. @ewenchan1239

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    I think that the Homelab REALLY depends on what you're using/running/doing.

    My main Proxmox server nominally has a load average of 20 now. (With dual Xeon E5-2697A v4s)

    And my three node OASLOA Mini PC Proxmox cluster, I found out last night/this morning that one of the nodes had a load average of 40(!) (on a system with a 4-core CPU), whilst another node had a load average of 3.2 (80% CPU utilisation).

    So…depending on what you're doing, it is not difficult to push a homelab to its outer limits, especially in terms of compute capabilities.

  19. @TayschrennSedai

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    "And it only cost me more than most of you make a year!"

  20. @JeffGeerling

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    9:26 you're welcome!

  21. @jackyli6716

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    cool project! nice job! thanks tim!

  22. @YannMetalhead

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    Good video.

  23. @ch716

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    Great project. I don't see the point of 10” racks, though. There aren't many real rackmount devices in that form factor, such as UPSs. It would be nice to see more 10” items, though, such as a nice Mac mini mount, decent switches, etc.

  24. @johnbeer4963

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    "Open source means updates for life" only if you can code them yourself.

  25. @NightmareNode2

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    But can you build a mini ubiquiti rack?

  26. @espressomatic

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    I guess it's more portable and a bit lighter than my 47U

  27. @ianwagj

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    12 Inches is 30cm or 300mm.

  28. @ralphjules9594

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    “8 inches deep “ ha

  29. @dano1242

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    Gimme gimmie 😮

  30. @SilverFoxGPC

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    The bubbly water reference doesn't help a lot. We don't drink that much sugar water in cans over here. 😉

  31. @WilReid

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    A monitor that doesn't do or change anything without you telling it to isn't always a con. Sometimes it's extremely beneficial, especially when troubleshooting. It's a huge PITA when a monitor spends 30 seconds cycling through its inputs trying to auto detect signals while you're trying to read POST info or just get into a BIOS/UEFI. Just as annoying to think a machine isn't powering on because your monitor decided to save milliwatt-hours by turning itself off and not turning back on again. I actually have a pretty strong hatred for modern monitors and their designs like OSDs instead of real buttons. It's all preference there.

  32. @victorsencion3621

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    Dude where do I get that neon tube?!!

  33. @MR.REEFFER

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    How much would this build be

  34. @charlesdean03

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    Hi tim you are wrong on the 16gb ram I am running mine with 32gb ram. even thought its N100

  35. @ElementX32

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    I think I'm going to borrow ideas from both of you guys.

  36. @00sielu00

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    Looking Awesom, my server is so boring 🙁

  37. @stone22121978

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    GEIL !!!!

  38. @bernas4898

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    What do you think about Cosmos Server?

  39. @BorisRTDev

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    patch cords what size

  40. @lord_haven1114

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    All that RGB tells me everything in the video will be about wasting money, and trying to talk others into wasting theirs. People can do this for much MUCH cheaper, if they even need it at all.

  41. @billkillernic

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    Hi, do you have a video showcasing the parts of your main home lab rack?

  42. @ItsDavidMorris

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    The switches that are slightly too wide, mount the shelf upside down and place the switch in from the rear, job done.

  43. @RaidOwl

    September 25, 2024 at 2:53 am

    No bias here at all but I think that Raid Owl guy won. Right guys??? Right…?

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