🌐 Weekend Hardware Update 🌐
Some additional reorganization time this weekend, all busy with the process of preparing the HomeLab for another interstate relocation. Having decided to repurpose some hardware to create a new router, this one formerly hosted infra VMs several years ago, but now it's going to run a pair of "BSD Router Project" VMs for on-host H/A, and a bit of packet shuffling between hosts for RDMA on RoCE v2, iSCSI, and a few shared NFS mounts for compute hosts, along with the usual firewall and packet filtering, some Wireguard, OpenVPN, and Zerotier, NTP + PTP via GPS/GNSS.
Here's a quick rundown on the specs, aggregated from the parts shelves and "it's not actively being used elsewhere" collection of enterprise hardware.
Supermicro X11-SSM-F board
Xeon E3-1270v6 4C/8T, 3.8/4.2GHz
64GB ECC DDR4-2400
2x 64GB InnoDisk SATA-DOMs
2x 500GB MP600 NVMe gen4
4 port QLogic QL41164 10GbE
2 port Qnap i226 2.5GbE + 2x M.2
4 port Intel i226 2.5GbE
2 port Intel XL710 40GbE
www.supermicro.com/en/produc...
www.intel.com/content/w... (AOC-S40G-I2Q)
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