• homelab update 05-27-2024

    Reversed the decision to run Pi-hole in a VM after I couldn’t do maintenance on Proxmox with losing internet access. In the process of migrating Pi-hole to dedicated hardware. Will leave the VM instance in place as a fallback.

  • homelab Pi‐hole

    Pi-hole should have been installed second. Unfortunately, it was near number 10 or so. Servers started arriving and I wanted to get them on the network. I also had not picked out a naming convention for the servers (ultimately decided to use Marvel characters) so setting up static IP addresses in DNS was mostly off…

  • homelab pfSense

    I chose pfSense as the firewall. Not claiming it was after some exhaustive search, it wasn’t. I know that there are other options, here are some of the reasons pfSense was selected. I do have a suggestion here, if you plan on deploying a standalone DNS/DHCP server make it the second software installed. I retrofit…

  • homelab hardware

    Overview of my ever evolving homelab. Devices, Software, Network, and Appliances covered. homelab adjacent gear also included. Check back as there will be frequent updates. core Device Operating System Software GPU NIC(s) Supermicro 1U Shallow FreeBSD Based pfSense N/A 1G, 4 x 10G Supermicro 1U Deep PopOS Ollama & WebUI 2x P100 1G, 2 x…