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    ESXi -> XCP-ng Homelab

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      mohammadm
      last edited by

      Recently we made the switch at the office from ESXi to XCP-ng. Ofcourse I had to do the same thing at my homelab.

      Homelab

      XCP01 Main
      Supermicro SC216BE1C-R920LPB
      Supermicro X11DPi-N(T)
      2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4108 CPU @ 1.80GHz
      16x 32GB Samsung DDR4 ECC RAM
      1x Nvidia NVS 510 Passthrough
      1x 256GB Samsng NVMe OS boot
      2x 4TB Samsung SSD PM883 local ZFS
      48x 2TB Samsung SSD PM883 Raidz2 (24, 24JBOD)
      Avago Fusion-MPT 12GSAS SAS3008 Passthrough
      2x 920Watt Platinum+ SQ PSU (PWS-920P-SQ)

      JOB01
      Supermicro SC216BE1C-R920LPB JBOD
      24x 2TB Samsung SSD PM883 Raidz2
      2x 920Watt Platinum+ SQ PSU (PWS-920P-SQ)

      XCP02 Test
      Supermicro SC216BE1C-R920LPB
      Supermicro X11DPi-N(T)
      2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4108 CPU @ 1.80GHz
      16x 32GB Samsung DDR4 ECC RAM
      1x Nvidia NVS 510 Passthrough
      1x 256GB Samsng NVMe OS boot
      2x 1TB Samsung SSD PM883 local ZFS
      24x 1TB Samsung SSD PM883 Raidz2
      Avago Fusion-MPT 12GSAS SAS3008 Passthrough
      2x 920Watt Platinum+ SQ PSU (PWS-920P-SQ)

      XCP03 XOA & Docker
      Dell Precision Tower 3420
      Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1245 v5 @ 3.50GHz
      2x 16GB Samsung DDR4 ECC RAM
      1x 256GB Samsng NVMe OS boot
      2x 1TB Samsung SSD PM883 local RAID1
      4x 1Gb NIC

      SYN01 Xpenology
      Supermicro SC216BE1C-R920LPB
      Supermicro X11DPi-N(T)
      2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4108 CPU @ 1.80GHz
      16x 16GB Kingston DDR4 ECC RAM
      1x 16GB USB3 OS boot
      8x 10TB HGST 7200RPM 4K HHD
      Avago Fusion-MPT 12GSAS SAS3008 PCI-Express
      2x 920Watt Platinum+ SQ PSU (PWS-920P-SQ)

      Networking
      UDM-SE (6TB HGST)
      USW-24-PoE
      3x UAP-nanoHD
      3x USW Flex
      G4 Doorbell
      2x G4 Bullet
      G3 Instant

      What am I running?
      Windows Servers
      Ubuntu Servers
      TrueNAS Scale
      Docker Swarm

      Next Steps
      Adding SSD's for cache to my Xpenology
      Virtualizing the Xpenology machine to XCP02 but somehow Xpenology and XCP-ng are not good friends yet.

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      • olivierlambertO
        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
        last edited by

        Nice setup! Thanks for sharing 🙂

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          austinw
          last edited by

          So I bet you don't have to use a heater in the winter lol.

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            mohammadm @austinw
            last edited by

            @austinw Since 80% is SSD, it does not generate that much heat to be honest. All the machines have their original supermicro fans. Tweaked some stuff in the ipmi. Average temperature of the cpu and ram is around 45/48c without the fans making lots of noises.

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