Network Stack Hardware:

Arris Surfboard SB8200

• DOCSIS 3.1
• Dual 1GbE ports with Link Aggregation support

Dell PowerEdge R210 ii

• Intel Xeon E3-1220 v2 4-core 3.1GHz
• 16GB ECC DDR3
• 60GB SATA SSD

Dell PowerConnect 6224

• 24x GbE ports

2x Ubiquiti UAP-AC-Pro

• 48VDC PoE
• 1300Mbps max throughput
• VLAN and meshing support

8-outlet Individual Switched PDU Strip

• Allows for streamlined power cycling of network stack components

CyberPower OR700LCDRM1U UPS

• 700VA/400W max power output
• Sufficient to run network stack for 1 hour during power loss

Network Stack Software:

pfSense Firewall

• FreeBSD based
• pfBlockerNG
• Assigns VLANs to IoT devices
• Enforces sleep schedule for applicable devices

Proxmox Server Hardware:

Dell PowerEdge R730XD

• Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 14-core 2.6GHz
• 128GB ECC DDR4
• 24x 2.5" SAS3 front hotswap bays
• 2x 2.5" SAS3 rear hotswap bays
• 2x 750W 80+ Platinum power supplies
• 2x 10GbE SFP+ 2x 1GbE mezzanine daughter card
• 2x 400GB SAS3 SSDs in ZFS mirror
• 2x 1.92TB SAS3 SSDs in ZFS mirror
• 4x 3.84TB m.2 NVMe SSDs in ZFS RAID10
• 6x 3.84TB SATA SSDs in various ZFS configurations

Proxmox Virtual Machines:

Windows 10 22H2

• Work VM for software testing

Windows 10 22H2 (32-bit)

• Work VM for legacy software testing

Windows 11 23H2

• Work VM for software testing

Windows 11 24H2

• Work VM for software testing

MacOS 12 Monterey

• Work VM for software testing

Windows 10 22H2

• Personal VM for testing Windows mods and suspicious software

Kali 2025.4

• Not really used but I installed it to attempt to break password protection on a few *very* old zip files

Bazzite

• Fedora-based
• First candidate for OS daily driver replacement
• Installed for workflow and familiarity testing

CachyOS

• Arch-based
• Second candidate for OS daily driver replacement
• Installed for workflow and familiarity testing

Proxmox Misc:

ISO Storage

• OS installer ISOs and LXC container templates
• Uses 1.92TB ZFS mirror for data storage

VM and LXC backups

• Full backups created after initial setup and at key restoration points
• Performed manually as needed
• Uses third 3.84TB ZFS mirror for backup storage

NAS Hardware:

Dell PowerEdge R730XD

• Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4 10-core 2.4GHz
• 256GB ECC DDR4
• 12x 3.5" SAS3 front hotswap bays
• 2x 2.5" SAS3 rear hotswap bays
• 2x 750W 80+ Platinum power supplies
• 2x 10GbE SFP+ 2x 1GbE mezzanine daughter card
• 12x 20TB Western Digital Red HDDs
• 2x 118GB Intel Optane P1600X m.2 NVMe SSDs

NAS Software and Configuration:

TrueNAS Core 13.0-U6.1

• FreeBSD based
• ZFS pool
• Samba file sharing
• FreeBSD jail for lftp transfers

ZFS pool (Archives)

• 3x 4-drive vdevs each in RAIDZ1
• 158TB usable space
• 2x 118GB Optane SSDs for mirrored special metadata vdev
• Dedicated metadata storage extends HDD lifespans

Proxmox LXC Services:

Served via ZFS RAID10 pool

Tailscale

• VPN connection to home network
• Uses WireGuard for VPN connections
• Primarily used to provide mobile connection to personal cloud

UniFi Controller

• Provisions and monitors WiFi access points

RustDesk

• Debian 13 template
• Self-hosted relay server
• Provides remote desktop to all Proxmox Windows and MacOS VMs

Nginx Proxy Manager

• Debian 13 template
• Reverse proxy
• Provides SSL certificates to main homelab services
• Allows FQDN use to access internal services without external exposure

AdGuard Home

• Debian 13 template
• Provides network-wide ad, tracker, and phishing website blocking
• Provides DNS rewriting to enable use of FQDN access of homelab services in conjunction with Nginx Proxy Manager

AdGuard Home 2

• Debian 13 template
• Mirrored copy of first AdGuard Home LXC for redundancy
• Will eventually migrate this to another low-powered physical machine

Homepage

• Self-hosted dashboard to all homelab services

AMP (Application Management Panel by CubeCoders)

• Game server hosting
• Terraria
• Valheim
• StarRupture
• Icarus

Samba file server 1 (inactive but operational)

• Debian 13 template
• Serves test files, software, and storage for work
• Uses 3.84TB ZFS mirror for data storage

Samba file server 2

• Debian 13 template
• Hosts Samba shares for personal files and Android device backups
• Uses 7.68TB ZFS stripe mirror for data storage

Immich

• Debian 13 template
• Runs without Docker
• Syncs and stores all Android device photos, videos, and downloaded audiovisual content
• Machine learning and facial recognition enabled

*arr

• Prowlarr
• Radarr
• Sonarr
• Lidarr
• Readarr
• Jackett
• FlareSolverr
• Byparr

DeepSeek

• Debian 13 template
• Runs inside Ollama with Open WebUI frontend
• Exploratory use only at present
• No GPU acceleration
• Typically run with R1-7b model but occasionally 32b

SearXNG

• Debian 13 template
• Self-hosted aggregate search engine
• Blocks user profiling and tracking
• Supports up to 215 search engines

Cloudflare DDNS

• Debian 13 template
• Keeps Cloudflare DNS records up to date after public IP change

Brave Sync Server

• Debian 13 template
• Runs go-sync
• Provides local sync server for devices running Brave Browser
• Syncs bookmarks, extensions, settings, and themes