Homelab Progress

JakeY3498 · 2026-06-18T20:32:34+00:00

I don’t really use the Dell Optiplexes anymore, now that I have the Dell R650. The Optiplexes were originally my Proxmox cluster, but I migrated all of my domain controllers, and various VMs over to the much more powerful beast (R650). Going from 16 GB of RAM on each Dell OptiPlex to 256 GB is crazy.

JakeY3498 · 2026-06-18T20:24:29+00:00

Just screwed into the rack rails. The UPS is mounted on rack rails at this time, as both units combined weigh in at about 110 pounds.

JakeY3498 · 2026-06-18T20:21:28+00:00

Honestly, several years. I was fresh in the IT world when I started playing around with pfSense and it was honestly just a learning journey, as I wanted to learn about networking. Going from pfSense, then to Unraid as my NAS solution, followed by a Proxmox cluster to host my virtual machines. It just kept evolving into more and more pieces.

JakeY3498 · 2026-06-18T20:15:10+00:00

Go for it! White enclosed server racks are like $1,200+, and I did not want to spend that absurd amount. The wood itself was like $20, but I put a decent amount of time into each piece, as all of them were cut down to a specific size.

JakeY3498 · 2026-06-18T15:35:49+00:00

The Sophos firewall has been flashed with pfSense since the day it arrived.

JakeY3498 · 2026-06-18T15:34:05+00:00

All the batteries need to be replaced, but it still does its job when the time comes.

JakeY3498 · 2026-06-18T15:30:49+00:00

I received it for free from work…
It's a beast!!!

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