Kategoria: equipment
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The Overkill Zone: Building a 100Gbps+ vSAN ESA Micro-Data Center
If the previous Lenovo M920x build was about maximizing the potential of a 1-liter chassis, this new iteration of the homelab is about throwing absolute, unapologetic, enterprise-grade hardware into a form factor where it has absolutely no business being. Welcome to the new cluster. It is dense, it is power-hungry, and frankly, its performance metrics…
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Enterprise Security on a Homelab Budget: My FortiGate 90G Gamble and the 10GbE Necessity
Building an advanced homelab often feels like a constant collision between engineering dreams and the brutal reality of enterprise hardware pricing. For the longest time, running a fully licensed, modern Unified Threat Management (UTM) firewall at home felt financially impossible. The hardware is expensive, but the annual subscription renewals are what truly break the bank.…
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Breaking the 10GbE Barrier: Upgrading from a 4-Bay Bottleneck to the QNAP TS-855eU ZFS Powerhouse
For the last few years, my storage architecture has heavily relied on an Asustor LOCKERSTOR 2 Gen2 (AS6702T). It is a fantastic machine, but its role in my environment has been strictly limited to serving as a dedicated backup repository. As my VMware cluster expanded and my 10GbE/25GbE network fabric matured, I needed something much…
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From PSOD Nightmare to 25GbE Glory: Elevating a Homelab to an Overkill Minisforum MS-A2 VMware Cluster
Building a high-performance homelab is rarely a simple journey. For many enthusiasts, it’s an evolutionary path defined by trial, error, and the relentless pursuit of stability and throughput. My journey has been a dramatic story of two distinct eras: the fragile era of USB networking torture and the glorious revolution of dedicated enterprise-grade silicon running…
Recent Posts
- [HW Upgrade] FortiGate 80E -> 70G
- The Overkill Zone: Building a 100Gbps+ vSAN ESA Micro-Data Center
- Enterprise-Grade Email in a HomeLab: Integrating Exchange, Proxmox Mail Gateway, and FortiGate Introduction
- Delicate Surgery on an Ancient Tape Library
- Mission Accomplished: The Weekend Migration is Complete!
