What do i use for hobbying#

So i own several systems that can be considered homelab, not all of which are modern.

Network#

  • Mikrotik Switch (managed Layer 2), 2x 10GB and 24 1G)
  • Routing through a old load-balancer with OPNSense (connected through 10GB)
  • 3x Unifi UAP-AC PRO
  • A DEC/|D|I|G|I|T|A|L| DECserver 716 console-sevrer

Infrastructure#

The always-on stuff#

  • Dell NAS (with Debian) for:
    • Storage (duh!)
    • my IRC-client for communitcation NurdSpace and my former (internship-)colleagus at BIT BV
    • Gitea
    • This site
    • Other stuff
  • Intel NUC 12 pro
    • Intel I5-1250P
    • 64GB DDR4 (non-ECC :/)
    • NVME 2TB SSD
    • SATA 2TB SSD
    • Applications:
      • IPAM at home
      • RKE2-cluster (which i’ll move most of the Docker-stuff to)
      • RDS-VDI
      • ADDC
      • My virtual DEC VAX (HYUNA on HECnet)
      • my connection to HECnet
  • A zBook 15 G2 a broken GPU and ESXi 7 for my retro-stuff
    • My Windows Server 2003 R2 DC for my vintage IT-stuff
    • Novell Netware 6.5 SP8 for the DOS-stuff
    • SCO OpenServer 7 for playing around in
    • The Solaris 10 and 11-VM’s for netboot and repositories for their respective versions

The stuff i power on when needed#

  • Sun Microsystems
    • SPARC Enterprise T5120
      • 32 threads
      • 32GB DDR2 FB-DIMM
      • 1x 146GB disk for Solaris 11
      • 2x 600GB for LDOMS/VMs
  • SPARC Enterprise T5220
    • 32 threads
    • 32GB DDR2 FB-DIMM
    • 8x 146GB disk for Solaris 10 in a huge RAID-0 (YOLO)
    • runs zones
  • HPE
    • Proliant DL380e Gen8
      • 2x Intel Xeon E5-2430L v2 (hexa-core)
      • 256GB DDR3 RDIMM
      • Assorted mess of storage (both SSD and HDD)
      • Runs KVM, LXD and MicroK8S for stuff like training courses and playing around
      • also contains my Turnkey MVS-instance in Hercules
  • DEC
    • AlphaServer DS20E
      • 1x EV67 800Mhz (i have the second cpu as a spare)
      • 1GB RAM
      • disks depend on whether i’m running OpenVMS or Tru64
      • 2GB QLogic FC
      • HECnet node JIMIN
    • AlphaServer DS25E
      • 2x EV68 1Ghz
      • 5120GB RAM
      • 2x 72GB for both OpenVMS 8.4 and VSI OpenVMS 8.4H2
      • 2x 146GB for data (shared between with OpenVMS installs) (RAID1)
      • 2GB QLogic FC
      • HECnet node D25SPK
    • AlphaServer ES47
      • 2x EV7 1.25Ghz
      • 4096MB RDRAM (RAIM, AKA RAID5 with RIMMS!!!)
      • Has issues regarding CPU 1
    • VAXStation 4000 Model 60
      • KA46 VAX processor
      • 32MB RAM
      • 2x 72GB SCSI disk (one for OpenVMS, one for data)
      • HECnet node CHOA
    • MicroVAX/VAXStation 2000
      • KA410 VAX Processor
      • 2MB RAM (4MB if i get the RAM board working)
      • Ethernet
      • 40MB RD32 in unknown state
      • console over DB9 had a issue
    • AlphaServer 1000e (EV5 version)
      • EV56 500 Mhz
      • 768MB RAM
      • Has some weird issue with SCSI that i’m debugging, can only boot NT (and maybe other OSES from AlphaBios) ATM
      • HECnet node name once i get OpenVMS running again: A1KSPK

Other stuff#

  • Storage:
    • Homebuild SuperMicro X10SLL-F
      • i7-4790
      • 32GB DDR3 (NON-ECC)
      • boot SSD (240GB) (SATA)
      • HDDs (both SATA):
        • 1TB
        • 2TB
      • Fibre channel (all QLogic):
        • 1x single 4GB
        • 1x dual 8GB
      • Ethernet
        • 2x 1GB built-in
      • Runs DataCore for a course and some LXC stuff on Proxmox (first node)
    • Homebuild with some Gigabyte gaming board (old one from my cousin):
      • i7-7700K
      • 32GB DDR4
      • SSD: 240GB SATA
      • HDD (all SATA):
        • 1TB
        • 2TB
      • Fibre channel (all QLogic):
        • 1x single 4GB
        • 1x dual 8GB
      • Ethernet
        • 1x 1GB built-in (Luckily Intel)
      • Runs DataCore for a course on Proxmox (second node)
    • Brocade B320
      • All available licenses :3
      • 24 ports
  • SuperMicro
    • TBD