homelab

Hi All, Requesting suggestion on below parts for best value for money setup. I am looking for close to 1500-1700 Aud. I am currently building this for my home lab and day to day stuff. later will add GPU for gaming. I currently require base windows 11 with vmware with 5 linux VM and one windows...

Hello, all. I hope this is the best place to post this question. Here's the deal. I have an old Intel NUC for a home server I have had for a couple of years I am afraid could die at any moment. It currently is running Red Hat 8 with KVM/libvirt hosting a few virtual machines and is also my Plex...

Hi folks, I'm planning on making a small homeserver to use up some spare Desktop parts I have at home and to try move away from constantly having to rent short term game servers for myself and the group every few months. I have a spare Ryzen 3600x, 16gb DDR4 and possibly a PSU (May need...

Hi! I recently started the process of moving my homelab into my college dorm and I noticed that they have a rule against personal routers in the dorm. I know for a fact that a couple of people have already been busted for having wireless routers, but what is the likeliness that they will detect...

Hi all, I've managed to pickup a HP procure 408 switch for some homelab testing, etc. Unfortunately it came without a power cable. Would anyone with more electronics know-how be able to identify what sort of adapter I require? Specifically around the plug type? Ideally I can pickup something...

Hello, I've bough a SuperMicro dual CPU MoBo (X10 DRL-C) and two E5-2695 V3 and 2 x 64gb LRDIMM, the idea is build it under ATX case due Quiet & Space aspects. At this point I'm struggling with the PSU due the Power draw plus the EPS cable and PSU support. The idea is use as home lab for VMs...

I got a vertical mount for my R720. Which will some day be an overkill Plex server. Will the ears be strong enough to support the weight of the system if it's hanging from the ears in the vertical mount? Or do I need to shell out for the rails? The server (it's the LFF)...

Build: Intel Core i5-4460 MSI B85M-E45, Socket-1150 Crucial DDR3 BallistiX Sport 1600MHz 8GB ASUS GeForce GTX 780 3GB PhysX CUDA Toshiba Desktop 1TB SATA 3.0 should i get a 500, 550, 600, 650 or 700 W psu?