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I diagrammed out my home lab/home server setup, mostly to keep a complete overview of how everything connects. I didn’t want to get bogged down in aesthetics around colour scheme, or layout – as you can no doubt tell. After a while diagramming it started to feel like a meme where I was trying to convey some crazy conspiracy theory on a wall of pinned paperwork and connecting threads. I think I am done documenting everything. But now I am wondering how obsessive I should be about detailing every little thing and VLANs and IP assignments. I don’t really care if it looks like a dog’s dinner, I really just care about “okay, where does this wire go to?” Is that the right approach?

  • Warm_Feature_7302B
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    1 year ago

    When I liked have a AD domain and DHCP running on it and the whole Media server part as well. I am working to seperate the two and have running my lab off of old Dell desktops from the servers I was using since my power bill went up. Also anything like my game server, Media Server, and Casa OS server and AD server I have moved to micro PC’s when I feel like blowing stuff up it wont affect the entire house.

  • skwycklB
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    1 year ago

    I feel like this is much more than many people on here are ready to undertake.

    Also, homelab is a kinda vague designation, so it stops being one when you say so. I know people who call homelabs their NAS running a couple of containers, so go crazy.

  • KlanxChileB
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    1 year ago

    When you can format it, to try something new.

    If you can’t?.. It became production