A small home lab setup worth noting for Mac mini server owners
The test home lab is split into two network areas. The first area uses a Mikrotik RB5009UG+S+ router and three Elitedesk 800 G6 mini PCs.
Those three machines run as a Proxmox cluster with 36 total cores, 48 gigabytes of memory, and 1.8 terabytes of storage. The storage is set up with CEPH, so multiple machines can share storage across the group.
A 4B is used as a console device. The second area uses a Fortinet 60E, an Optiplex 7020, two 80 gigabyte SSDs in RAID 1, and XCP-NG, with 4 cores and 16 gigabytes of memory.
Key points
- The lab is divided into two separate network areas.
- Three Elitedesk 800 G6 machines are used as a Proxmox cluster.
- The first area has 36 cores, 48 gigabytes of memory, and 1.8 terabytes of storage.
- CEPH is used for shared storage across machines.
- The second area uses Fortinet, Optiplex, RAID 1, and XCP-NG.