HOMELAB BUILDOUT

Current infrastructure and equipment

Network Equipment

pfSense Router

ONLINE

Primary network firewall and router handling all WAN/LAN traffic, VPN, and security policies.

Supermicro 1U Whitebox CPU: Intel Xeon (4 cores) RAM: 8GB DDR4 ECC Storage: 64GB SSD NICs: 4x 1GbE Intel OS: pfSense CE 2.7.x Services: - Firewall/NAT - OpenVPN Server - DNS Resolver - DHCP Server - Traffic Shaping - Snort IDS/IPS
IP: 192.168.1.1

Core Switch

ONLINE

48-port PoE+ managed switch providing network backbone and powering access points.

Brocade ICX6610-48P Ports: 48x 1GbE PoE+ (740W) Uplinks: 4x 10GbE SFP+ Switching: 176 Gbps PoE Budget: 740W Features: - Layer 3 Routing - VLAN Support - LACP/LAG - Spanning Tree - QoS - Port Mirroring
IP: 192.168.1.2

AP-01 (Living Room)

ONLINE

Primary wireless access point covering main living area.

TP-Link EAP653 WiFi 6 (802.11ax) 2.4GHz: 574 Mbps 5GHz: 2402 Mbps PoE: 802.3at (PoE+) Managed via Omada Controller
IP: 192.168.1.20

AP-02 (Office)

ONLINE

Secondary wireless access point for office/workspace coverage.

TP-Link EAP653 WiFi 6 (802.11ax) 2.4GHz: 574 Mbps 5GHz: 2402 Mbps PoE: 802.3at (PoE+) Managed via Omada Controller
IP: 192.168.1.21

Server

Proxmox Hypervisor

ONLINE

Primary virtualization host running all VMs and LXC containers.

Cisco UCS C220 M5 CPU: 2x Intel Xeon Silver 4110 (16C/32T) RAM: 128GB DDR4 ECC Storage: - 2x 480GB SSD (ZFS Mirror - Boot) - 4x 2TB HDD (ZFS RAIDZ1 - Data) NIC: 2x 10GbE + 4x 1GbE iLO: Cisco IMC OS: Proxmox VE 8.1 Kernel: 6.5.x
IP: 192.168.1.10

Virtual Machine

Virtual Machines

MAINTENANCE

Virtual machines running on Proxmox hypervisor.

Coming Soon... Planned VMs: - Docker Host - Windows Server - Development Environment - Backup Server - Media Server

Container

LXC Containers

MAINTENANCE

Lightweight Linux containers for various services.

Coming Soon... Planned Containers: - Pi-hole (DNS) - Nginx Proxy Manager - Home Assistant - Plex/Jellyfin - Grafana/Prometheus - Portainer

NETWORK TOPOLOGY

Network diagram coming soon...