Just to let you know that immich didn't transfer to a payed model, it just transfered to a donation model of some sort. It's still open source. Check Louis Rossman videos regarding this and you will see there's nothing to be worried about
This is great content! I have something similar to what you are shooting for, but also is about to undergo some revisions. I’m 48 now, and I’ve learned that as soon as a project is complete, it’s due for revisions. 😂 I’m running proxmox on a HP mini elite G3 800 with a 1TB internal ssd, 1TB SSD in a USB-C caddy, and two 2TB WD passports. Oh and 24GB ddr4. Use what ya got. That’s the home lab way. 😂
Great video. Always fun to see what others have setup. It's a bit cleaner setup than mine... May have to do a homelab tour but there won't be much time looking at the pictures lol.
@@sytriz im running a i3 6th gen with 13gb ram on proxmox for homeassitant. And one i7 4th gen with 2x1tb drive and 1 250gb ssd, currently running casa os. Looking to see what fits my needs and how to go about the hardware and configuration.
Great little homelab on two machines. I've been trying to condense some of my 4u and 2u servers in my rack down to all these amazing Mini PC's that are coming out these days. Currently running an unRaid host, two debian hosts, a ubuntu host
Thanks! It really is crazy how powerful mini PCs are getting these days, the high spec ones can host a surprising amount of stuff! Just wondering, are you transitioning to them for power reasons? or just space? Maybe it's just because I haven't had a proper rack and rack mounted servers yet. But I see the "coolness factor" being way higher with a proper rack and full sized servers. That is what I'm planning on doing when I redo my homelab. I'd love to have a massive rack and blinking lights in my house haha
using network shares instead of directly mounting has its benefits. networkshares can handle concurrent access from multiple VMs and LXCs. directly mounting a harddrive in proxmox is preferred when only a single VM or LXC should have access. Btw you can change the bootorder of your openmediavault vm to start before all the other ones to avoid mounting issues. I set up everything on one machine because I have higher electricy cost where i live. All the things you mentioned i have on one docker host. Any reason why you have your media server stuff in seperate LXCs. would like to know :)
Understood. I was convinced that I could make a ZFS share in Proxmox and pass it through to multiple guests allowing simultaneous access to the storage? I will have to look into this more. But I do know you cannot do this when straight up directly passing through a drive, not in a ZFS pool. I did end up finding out about the GUI implementation of modifying the boot order after making a crontab bash scrip to only start the other VMs after OMV was running. And the main reason for having both docker containers and LXC's is just because I wanted to try both out. To be honest, I kind of like LXC containers better because they show up more directly in Proxmox instead of having to go through another VM. But, it is nice to still have the docker host around if I'm hosting a service I can only find a docker compose file for, and no proxmox helper script.
Hey mate, can you please tell me about how you made that diagram with all your routers/servers and the services youre running? I would love to have something similar for my mini homelab to keep my things organized and know exactly what im hosting and where
Great video, would you please provide a link for hosting GNS/CML, I'm interested in remotely hosting my own lab so I can access it wherever i am, not just when I'm home. Also, can you remotely access the GUI of that mint VM?
Thank you! For GNS3, there's a video by Divgitally ("GNS3 server setup on Proxmox"), it's pretty simple. For CML, I followed Jeremy's IT Lab guide because I use his course for my CCNP. Only catch with CML is that if you actually want configure devices you need to pay $200 annually for the Cisco virtual firmware versions. If you're specifically focused on Cisco like me and you want to setup a lab for free, I'd recommend GNS3. But even then you still need to obtain the virtual firmware versions for network devices. I was able to get them from my work, but, I'm sure there's other sketchy ways to get the firmware for free without paying. But it is very nice being able to access the lab environment externally hosting it on a server like this VS running a type-2 hypervisor on a workstation. For the Mint VM, I'm just using the default Proxmox console VNC thing. It's there by default if you setup any VM in proxmox under the console tab. Usually I have no problems with it, but I can probably just re-create the VM to fix it. There's nothing important on it, just for testing. If it were working yes, I could port forward the Proxmox web UI and access it remotely therefor, I could see everything on the Mint desktop too. If I were using it more it would be way more elegant to setup a proper VNC connection instead of using the built-in Proxmox one though.
I'd love to know how much electricity these guys (or just one of them) needs. (Not your bill directly, but the Watts or Kilowatts so that I can calculate what something like that would cost me where i am located)
I would also like to know those stats. Energy is really cheap by me, so I don't really pay attention to it. And I'd say my electric bill is pretty standard. I don't imagine the servers are using too much power because they're both just low-end desktops. But who knows, maybe I'd be surprised.
I run a dell r720 and an md1200 jbod, those 2 use about 440 watts. The entire setup (including switches and small computers for network stuff) pulls about 500.
I suspect my home lab is pulling about 400w total. That's a Core2Quad, 2x 2nd Gen i5, and a 7th Gen i5. In the process of shifting things around since I really need to get rid of that Core2Quad and maybe one of the 2nd Gen machines.
Just to let you know that immich didn't transfer to a payed model, it just transfered to a donation model of some sort. It's still open source. Check Louis Rossman videos regarding this and you will see there's nothing to be worried about
Great to see more people getting into the homelab/selfhosting space. Great video!
Thanks! Early beginnings for me lol!
That's really useful - thanks for spending your time doing this!
Great stuff mate! I’ve just started to build my own homelab and would love to hear what you have learned and what you would like to change.
This is great content! I have something similar to what you are shooting for, but also is about to undergo some revisions. I’m 48 now, and I’ve learned that as soon as a project is complete, it’s due for revisions. 😂
I’m running proxmox on a HP mini elite G3 800 with a 1TB internal ssd, 1TB SSD in a USB-C caddy, and two 2TB WD passports. Oh and 24GB ddr4. Use what ya got. That’s the home lab way. 😂
Great video. Always fun to see what others have setup. It's a bit cleaner setup than mine... May have to do a homelab tour but there won't be much time looking at the pictures lol.
great video and explanation, love it.
Looking forward to your future homelab videos
Thanks man, I really appreciate it!
@@sytriz im running a i3 6th gen with 13gb ram on proxmox for homeassitant.
And one i7 4th gen with 2x1tb drive and 1 250gb ssd, currently running casa os.
Looking to see what fits my needs and how to go about the hardware and configuration.
welcome to homelabing
nice video
This is fire!! You should do a video on how you would set it up now if you could redo it
Great little homelab on two machines. I've been trying to condense some of my 4u and 2u servers in my rack down to all these amazing Mini PC's that are coming out these days. Currently running an unRaid host, two debian hosts, a ubuntu host
Thanks! It really is crazy how powerful mini PCs are getting these days, the high spec ones can host a surprising amount of stuff!
Just wondering, are you transitioning to them for power reasons? or just space? Maybe it's just because I haven't had a proper rack and rack mounted servers yet. But I see the "coolness factor" being way higher with a proper rack and full sized servers. That is what I'm planning on doing when I redo my homelab. I'd love to have a massive rack and blinking lights in my house haha
Great work!
using network shares instead of directly mounting has its benefits. networkshares can handle concurrent access from multiple VMs and LXCs. directly mounting a harddrive in proxmox is preferred when only a single VM or LXC should have access. Btw you can change the bootorder of your openmediavault vm to start before all the other ones to avoid mounting issues.
I set up everything on one machine because I have higher electricy cost where i live. All the things you mentioned i have on one docker host. Any reason why you have your media server stuff in seperate LXCs. would like to know :)
Understood. I was convinced that I could make a ZFS share in Proxmox and pass it through to multiple guests allowing simultaneous access to the storage? I will have to look into this more. But I do know you cannot do this when straight up directly passing through a drive, not in a ZFS pool.
I did end up finding out about the GUI implementation of modifying the boot order after making a crontab bash scrip to only start the other VMs after OMV was running.
And the main reason for having both docker containers and LXC's is just because I wanted to try both out. To be honest, I kind of like LXC containers better because they show up more directly in Proxmox instead of having to go through another VM. But, it is nice to still have the docker host around if I'm hosting a service I can only find a docker compose file for, and no proxmox helper script.
can you show how you setup the domain names / revers eproxy ?
Have you thought about using Tailscale or Netbird ?
Hey mate, can you please tell me about how you made that diagram with all your routers/servers and the services youre running? I would love to have something similar for my mini homelab to keep my things organized and know exactly what im hosting and where
Great video, would you please provide a link for hosting GNS/CML, I'm interested in remotely hosting my own lab so I can access it wherever i am, not just when I'm home. Also, can you remotely access the GUI of that mint VM?
Thank you! For GNS3, there's a video by Divgitally ("GNS3 server setup on Proxmox"), it's pretty simple. For CML, I followed Jeremy's IT Lab guide because I use his course for my CCNP. Only catch with CML is that if you actually want configure devices you need to pay $200 annually for the Cisco virtual firmware versions. If you're specifically focused on Cisco like me and you want to setup a lab for free, I'd recommend GNS3. But even then you still need to obtain the virtual firmware versions for network devices. I was able to get them from my work, but, I'm sure there's other sketchy ways to get the firmware for free without paying. But it is very nice being able to access the lab environment externally hosting it on a server like this VS running a type-2 hypervisor on a workstation.
For the Mint VM, I'm just using the default Proxmox console VNC thing. It's there by default if you setup any VM in proxmox under the console tab. Usually I have no problems with it, but I can probably just re-create the VM to fix it. There's nothing important on it, just for testing. If it were working yes, I could port forward the Proxmox web UI and access it remotely therefor, I could see everything on the Mint desktop too. If I were using it more it would be way more elegant to setup a proper VNC connection instead of using the built-in Proxmox one though.
I'd love to know how much electricity these guys (or just one of them) needs.
(Not your bill directly, but the Watts or Kilowatts so that I can calculate what something like that would cost me where i am located)
I would also like to know those stats. Energy is really cheap by me, so I don't really pay attention to it. And I'd say my electric bill is pretty standard. I don't imagine the servers are using too much power because they're both just low-end desktops. But who knows, maybe I'd be surprised.
I run a dell r720 and an md1200 jbod, those 2 use about 440 watts. The entire setup (including switches and small computers for network stuff) pulls about 500.
@@McGregorMX I would say that isn't bad at all considering a high-end GPU alone can pull like 300 watts these days.
I suspect my home lab is pulling about 400w total. That's a Core2Quad, 2x 2nd Gen i5, and a 7th Gen i5.
In the process of shifting things around since I really need to get rid of that Core2Quad and maybe one of the 2nd Gen machines.
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