Cyberlab - Homelab Infrastructure

Welcome to Cyberlab — my personal homelab playground for testing, learning, and breaking stuff (so you don’t have to).
This repo documents the setup, configs, and automation for my homelab environment.

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🖥️ Hardware Overview

Dell PowerEdge R320 (X2)

• Specs:

  • Xeon E5-2407
  • Xeon E5-2470 v2 (MERRY CHRISTMAS)
  • 32GB RAM DDR4
  • 96GB RAM DDR4 (MERRY CHRISTMAS)
  • 8 × 1TB SAS HDD
  • Intel X520-DA2 (MERRY 10 GIGABIT CHRISTMAS)

• Node 1 – Proxmox ARR

  • Nvidia Quadro P600 GPU passthrough
  • RAIDZ2 → Storage capacity in favor of speed.

• Node 2 – Proxmox FILES

  • RAIDZ2 → Storage capacity in favor of speed.
  • Windows AD ENV
  • PBS
  • SMB/CIFS Share
  • Minecraft Servers

• VM – Proxmox PBS

  • Trying to keep the storage as empty as possible so I run very lean backups daily backups.
  • 256 GB allocated, aggressive purge/retention rules to keep 1 backups per vm/lxc.
  • Additonally offload configs of each node onto a flash drive so in case of OS failure I can reinstall on a fresh drive import my configs and restore to its former self.

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Custom Build #1

• DECOMMISSIONED, moved all servers to files
• Intel i5 (4 cores), 32GB RAM
• 2 × 256GB SSD
• Roles: Minecraft servers + Windows AD lab
• Added 1G NIC (Intel 82576 Controller) 2x RJ45
• Now running OPNsense (added Zenarmor to turn it into NGFW!)

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Rackmounted PC (Workhorse)

• Intel i7-9700K (OC 4.9–5.0 GHz, custom water loop)
• RTX 2070 8GB VRAM
• 32GB DDR4 RAM
• Mixed drives for flexible workloads
• Removed 1 TB HDD, added 1 256GB SSD, setup 4 drive raid pool in RAID10 for /home/ partition. (overkill? yes. fun? also yes.)
• Reinstalled Arch for latest NVIDIA drivers recently.

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Networking & Power

• Cisco Catalyst 2960-S switch
• APC SMT1500 UPS

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📸 Screenshots

Hardware

Overview

ETC Backups