My XCP-NG Homelab 2023 edition

jmannik

Hi All,

Posted this on twitter a number of times, but here is my homelab.

From top to bottom:

Unifi Pro Aggregation Switch
Mikrotik CRS328-24P-4S+RM
Intel i5 2400, 8GB Ram, Ubuntu 22.04 bare metal Xen Orchestra Community Edition
Ryzen 3900XT, 64GB RAM, 2x10G network (1 for VM, 1 for iSCSI), XCP-NG 8.3
Ryzen 5900X, 128GB RAM, 2x10G network (1 for VM, 1 for iSCSI) XCP-NG 8.3
Ryzen 5900X, 128GB RAM, 2x10G network (1 for VM, 1 for iSCSI) XCP-NG 8.3
Ryzen 3600, 16GB RAM, 2x25G network, 17x 480GB SAS SSD's (RAID F1 with 1 hot spare) Xpenology(Synology) 7.2.1 U1 for the iSCSI target.

I currently run a number of game servers on this setup:

Minecraft.
DCS World.
IL-2 Great Battles Series (Stalingrad, Moscow, Kuban, Bodenplatte, Normandy etc.)
Euro Truck Sim 2 and American Truck Sim.

I also run a few other things for my internal only network:

iVENTOY
PiHole
Universal Media Server/PS3 Media server/etc.

Plan is to add a number of larger drives to the storage server, add in another NAS for backup storage to replace my existing NAS. And maybe one day pick up a Supermicro Microcloud AM5 system (8 Ryzen 7000 series in a 3U chassis)

olivierlambert

Nice lab, thanks a lot for sharing!

lawrencesystems

@jmannik

Looks good, nice cable management as well.

jmannik

@lawrencesystems said in My XCP-NG Homelab 2023 edition:

@jmannik

Looks good, nice cable management as well.

Thanks, ill make a note to never show the other sides for cable management so that compliment still applies lol

jmannik

Well there has been some changes since this post lol.
Changed the following:

Replaced the 480gb sata ssd's in the storage server with 8x480gb 12g sas ssd's and 4x 3.84tb 12g sas ssd's.
Removed the Mikrotik switch from the rack to use it elsewhere and used 1g rj45 sfp modules to run the copper instead.

Soon to add:

Rebuilding each of the hosts 1 by 1 as I put in some 4x10g cards I picked up for a great price (Chelsio T540-CR cards), just waiting on the DAC cables to arrive.

I might look at upgrading the ram and cpu in the 3900xt host so it matches the other two hosts at some point too... either that or start upgrading to Ryzen 7000 series

nikade

Nice, how many VM's are you running on all that?

jmannik

@nikade 14 currently, will probably spin up more at some point

nikade

@jmannik said in My XCP-NG Homelab 2023 edition:

@nikade 14 currently, will probably spin up more at some point

Hehe alright, im running a HP Z240 (Xeon quad core, 64Gb ram, nvme for OS, Samsung 893 500Gb for local SR) at home and its currently running 8 VM's, mostly Linux but 2 Windows Server 2022 as well for training/testing stuff.