Home Lab Tour 2023 – VMware vSphere, vSAN, Proxmox, Docker, Unifi, Synology, MORE!

This is my home lab tour 2023, including the hardware, servers, networking, software, monitoring, notifications, and other changes made this year. Hopefully you guys will enjoy the technologies and applications I am using in the home lab in 2023.

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A bit of RGB to get started! – 0:00
Introduction to the evolution of my home lab – 0:27
A discussion of hardware and changes – 1:10
Overview of firewall upgrade this year – 1:23
Detailing the addition of Intel Optane storage to the home lab vSAN cluster – 1:40
Streamlined cabling this past year – 2:18
I have installed 2 light bars in the server rack – 2:42
No other major changes on the network side of things – 3:32
Thinking about 25 gig – 3:55
Overview of my 6 Supermicro hosts – 4:12
103 GHz, 766 GB memory, 31.84 TB of virtualization resources, 26 TB of Synology storage – 4:44
Overview of software changes – 5:02
Upgraded to VMware vSphere 8 and vSAN 8 – 5:12
Other hypervisors: Proxmox and Hyper-V standalone and clusters – 5:38
Also running 4 Docker hosts as virtual machines – 5:59
Pihole, Uptime-Kuma, Unifi network controller, arpwatch, Pialert, GestioIP, Mailrise, Traefik, Twingate – 6:13
Kubernetes distros in the lab – 6:48
3 Rancher controlled RKE clusters – 6:53
K3s cluster and 3-node Microk8s cluster – 7:29
Added a VMware Tanzu cluster in the home lab – 7:43
Monitoring in the home lab in 2023 – 8:08
PRTG from Paessler for monitoring – 8:24
Other solutions in addition to PRTG – 9:08
VMware vRealize operations in the home lab – 9:21
Running Uptime-Kuma – 10:10
Prometheus and Grafana – 10:42
Talking about backups in the home lab – 10:52
The variety of backup solutions using in the home lab – 11:23
Mailrise for notification services – 12:14
RGB of my home lab server rack – 13:19

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