Ready for a major homelab upgrade? In this video, I’m taking you behind the scenes as I streamline my setup and reduce power …
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It's amazing how little hardware you really need.
Working on a similar "rationalization" project myself – Going to reduce my Synology NAS count by 1 (the older one only has 1GBe, and I'm not happy with that anymore), remove an older 6th Gen NUC from the proxmox cluster (Only 1GBe here too, and it's not adding anything to the cluster really), Add a new Supermicro AI server and probably move the drives from the decommissioned Syn box to that and then move my Proxmox Backup Server there also. Before that – network optimization for ceph, three new UPS's to split the load and give me more than 50 seconds of backup protection, and some TP-link power controllers so I can sequence startups as you described. whew Currently I'm all-in around 600W idle, maybe I pull out 50W, and then of course the new AI server is unknown, but probably around 180-220W idle, so not really saving, but easing the bite.
can i have your decommission hardware?
Glad to see your consolidation efforts are positive! I am enjoying watching your progress on this! I know it feels great getting things in order and cleaned up.
It always feels good to decommission some hardware you don't necessarily need anymore.
Dude, why unplug your servers and not use the power button? I won't lie to you, but when you unplugged those three servers I did cringe. ❤️
it looks like one of those minipc is what i have to run my plex server (it nas an n100). That is definitely a way to save power. Those N100 are a transcoding beasts for how low power they are. They are better than i originally thought they could be.
i thought your HL15 was one of those 45drive servers. Wow would I love one of those but can't afford it. I might be looking into that HL15 🙂
If you want to save another 20w … switch the monitor off 🙂
Letting my nightly backups run and then restoring from backup is how I migrate vms and containers also.
I was going to write a comment about Ansible, but you said it yourself – so yeah, these processes will be much easier and faster with it. Can't wait to see your rack cleaned up and solved. As for me – i run an old laptop with 6th gen i5 (running Proxmox with Jellyfin, NPM, Homepage, Portainer, Trillium, Vaultwarden, WordPress and IT-tools thanks to you btw) , Synology DS220j as a filestorage and backup mountpoint, and Mikrotik HAP AC2 with dumb switch to have more ports. And i'm about to receive Terramaster F5-221 for better redundancy, and i'm happy with it and i think i will setup OMV on it so wish me luck =)
I did exactly the same bought a dell r730 to consolidate all my mini pc's and old r710.
The r730 saves me a massive 600w with cpu governor setting to ondemand, currently runs at 187w on normal load and bumps to around 400w full tilt.
2698v3, 185gb etc ram, 8x 1.6gb enterprise sas ssd (hba mode for proxmoz zfs), tesla p4 gpu.
I am not disappointed with my setup now.
Next is to upgrade network to 10gb backbone.
Thank you D. Very informative as always. 500W load ouch! My Unraid server draws 200W on average anf that keeps me up at night 😄
So nice to see you so energetic and smiley. Btw, super nice video also, home lab hack build and tips is something I will appreciate if you could get in that subject again
500 watts ! 12kWh a day wow. My our house here in the UK uses ~ 5.3kWh per day or average of 216 watts. My home lab uses ~40 watts for everything tiny Leonvo m710q 6500t 16gb ram, 8 port switch, phone ATA, fibre modem, Unifi AP. Energy is around £0.22 per kWh ($0.29) and standchange £19.77 a month
Please show us how you delay a start up on vm/lxc
for the folder mounting issue. If your mounting them into a VM uses autofs with ghost folders. if your using docker/portainer with smb/nfs shares as volumes, add the volume mount to wantedby in the docker systemd service. this will stop docker from starting until it sees those volumes mount.
I’ve been decommissioning an old workstation for 8 months now… My plan was to migrate to 2 MS-01’s (one plex, one jellyfin, plus all the other random stuff) but unfortunately the MS-01’s are about as stable as red-headed-crack-babies. I am getting tired of of waiting on Intel to get these CPU’s stable.
As always great content, thanks David
Did you remove the power bricks before checking usage? If not you actually saved more power.
haha, thanks for remembering! 😀 yes, vacuum! 😉
I can't believe i have been watching this channel since the days of Fitbit.
500 watts seems a bit insane tbh feels like a lot of merging and and power tweaking can be done.
I downsized my Homelab to a old intel i7 gen 8 laptop with 32gig ram for everything docker with included UPS(inbuilt battery)with 10-15w idle.
My storage ZFS array is on a intel n100 ali-express board with 30-40w idle.
Firewall is just a basic Mikrotik router with 5-10w idle.
Will just add mini PCs with over provisioned memory for future upgrades.