Hello 👋 Welcome to @home_datacenter ! This feed will be about running your own Home DataCenter (_or your own Private Cloud_). This will be the first of a series of post on the subject.

In the _previous_ Twt, I showed a photo of my own Server Room which houses a 22RU (_Rack Units_), industry standard 19" (_inches_) Rack Cabinet that is 600mm deep. This is about the smallest practical cabinet you can get for a small home office (_SOHO_), business or just your home (_because you can!_). Several years ago this cost me approximately ~$600-700 AUD and was purchased from 4Cabling. -- Next: What's inside the cabinet?

This is the new [CSS326-24G-2S+RM](https://mikrotik.com/product/CSS326-24G-2SplusRM#) that replaes the `CRS125-24G-1S` in my setup. This goes for around $200 so as far as networking gear goes this does the job really nicely!

👋 Hello again @home_datacenter readers! Last time we talked about the Server Room itself which houses a 19" 22RU 600m deep Cabinet. Next series of twts I want to share; "What's inside?!"... So the first thing every miniature data needs is a Network Switch and Core Router. It is important you get a good quality one that can handle the kinds of load you will throw at it. In mine I use a [CRS125-24G-1S-IN](https://mikrotik.com/product/CRS125-24G

Sorry about the order of the last two twts. I mistakenly posted as myself @prologic instead 🤣

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Let's talk Hypervisors... The Hypervisor I choose to run in my Home Datacenter is Proxmox VE -- There are several reasons why I choose this as my platform: - It is fully 100% open source and based on open source software - it is easy to use and has a nice GUI if you need that - It has a Restful JSON API for automating your infra - It has built-in support for ZFS The last reason is the killer feature for me, other Hypervisors such as VMWare(_for example_) make you pay for additional **basic** storage features. Proxmox just work™ 👌 There are of course other _decent_ Hypervisor platforms you can choose, however your milage may vary (YMMV) 🤗 #Home_Datacenter #Proxmox #Hypervisor

Let's talk storage... When I initially set out to build my Home (_mini_) Datacenter one of the first things that went into the Rack was a Storage Server or otherwise typically called a NAS (_Network Attached Storage_). The server I chose was one I originally bought from UnRAID who unfortunately don't seem to make the hardware anymore. The chassis was a custom iStartUSA 4RU chassis that fit my 600m short-depth Rack. It has 10x 3.5" Hot-Swap drive bays and 4x Hot-Swap 2.5" drive bays. Basically I run a ZFS RAID-Z3 pool on this where all our media is stored and served from as well as backups (_not the only backup, more on this later..._). If anyone can find details on the UnRaid hardware and chassis, reply to this Twt or reach out to me, it would be nice to actually link to it even if it's only available through the Internet Archives 🤗

(#6esdsla) and here’s a pretty picture of it 😁