Server 1 Supermicro X8DTI-F with 2 x 6 core Xeon CPU’s with 128GB ram and 8 3TB hardrives. Running Xpenology DMS 6.1
Server 2 Supermicro X8DTI-F with 2 x 6 core Xeon CPU’s with 128GB ram and 4 3TB hardrives. and 1 3TB parity drive. Running Unraid
Server 3 Apple Xserve 2 4 core Xeon CPU’s with 64GB ram and 4 2TB drives. Running ESXI 6.6.
Since I found out the Xpenology system is not using all of my 24 cores and also does not make use of all the memory I am thinking about switching that machine to TrueNas Scale.
Currently Running 2x Servers and got another one in the works
Server One Aka (“Anton”) - AMD 3945WX + 256GB DDR4 2933 + NVIDIA A100 for my research and AI work
Server Two Aka (“Piper”) - i9 10900 + 128GB 3200 + NVIDIA T400 for Plex and other VMs i need
Server Three (WIP) is going to be a Xeon 4310 + 64Gb 2933 and going to be replacing my 10900 for Vms and Storage as im aiming for all NVME/SSD storage this time around and Icelake looks pretty decent for my price range!
Dell T320 8c16t, 24GB RAM, 4x 1Gb Intel NIC’s (two are independent and two are LACP and assigned to TruNAS), 4x 128GB SSD’s in two Mirrors (one for the OS and the other for CT and VM’s), 8x 3TB drives in Zfs1.
Proxmox Hypervisor, virtualized TruNAS Scale/Nextcloud/And a few other small services.
Wish I had more storage but the price of used drives really puts a damper on that.
Official consumption for the WAF test … 150ish Watts, that is actually what it pulls at Idle with the WIn VM off … when running OSX plus Mechwarrior 5 on the 3070Ti we’re doing 350-ish
Trying to sunset a couple of 4U rack cases with a mix of desktop/workstation hardware that I’ve recently replaced with:
NAS
Dell R720XD running TrueNAS Scale
– 2x Intel Xeon E5-2660 V3
– 64GB RAM (although likely to get more with sunsetting the other systems)
– 8X Ironwolf Pro 4TB in RAIDZ2
– 2X Samsung EVO 1TB SSD in mirror
– Recently attached a MD1200 for more disks! Although waiting on being able to turn the fans down on that guy. This will house 8x Ironwolf Pro 8TB in RAIDZ2
Virtualization Host
Dell R630 which I’m waiting on SSDs for to setup most-likely XCP-NG.
– 2x Intel Xeon E5-2650 V3
– 128 GB RAM
I’ve run ESXi 6.5 and Proxmox 7 on previous virtualization hosts and I feel like giving XCP-NG a go this time. Got a fair amount of experience with Docker and looking at using that as much as possible for services rather than full VMs.
It gets a bit dusty, so I have a Discord Bot that helps me plan monthly clean-outs of all the equipment but this is right next to my DEMARC space is pretty limited. Not much space to put up higher.
It was mostly for me to get up the learning curve regarding building out compute infrastructure for a biology research laboratory. I needed to learn a lot about hardware and software.
I also have a Synology DS720+ I’m migrating to, but man it is painfully slow to read data from.
Case: Fractal Design Define 7 Light Tempered Glass Black
PSU: Seasonic PRIME-Fanless-PX-450
MBO: ASRock Rack X470D4U
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700x
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Pure Rock Slim
RAM: 4x Kingston KSM26ED8/16ME 16GB ECC DDR4
NIC: 1x IPMI (onboard) + 2x 1Gbit (onboard) + 1x 10Gbit Mellanox ConnectX-3
HBA: HP Smart Array H240 (IT Mode)
SSD: 2x Kingston A400 SSD SA400M8 / 120GB + 1x Crucial P1 SSD 1TB, M.2
HDD: 4x Western Digital WD Red Pro 2TB
RGB Controller: Shelly RGBW2
Software
Hypervisor: VMware ESXI vSphere 7 Hypervisor on 120GB SSD with 1TB SSD for storing VMs
VM: TrueNAS Core on second120GB SSD with directly passed HBA controller managing 4x 2TB HDD drives in RAIDZ2 + 10Gbit NIC
Other VMs:
Unifi Controller
Home Assistant
Plex Media Server
Nextcloud
Minecraft Server
I am also testing running TrueNAS on a QNAP TS-253A (bare metal) currently.
I use my old PC as a server. Bought the CPU, mobo, and case at a yard sale ~6 years ago. It’s still working fine and is more than enough for my sever needs.
Component
Model
OS
Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS
CPU
AMD FX-8320
GPU
MSI GTX 650
RAM
32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 1600MHz
SSD
PNY 120GB SATA
HDD
2 x Seagate IronWolf NAS 4TB 5900RPM
Its running:
gitea
mealie
baikal
plex
home assistant
minecraft server
photoprism
wiki.js
unifi controller
code-server
wireguard
speedtest
nearly a dozen random little websites/apps I have made over the years
I also have an old HP tower at my parents that’s my remote backup, but it doesn’t do anything interesting.
LSI Controller with a SFF-8087-to- SATA (4-to-1) breakout cable
(NB: this has a PCIe x4 connector, so make sure the target mobo slot is x4 capable)
(detail provided for those unfamiliar with SFF-8087 connector)
I have an old HP with an A10 6800k in it. I am wanting to make it into a home server, I just run Octpoprint on it. I am Really excited about this adventure we are starting here.
