Home Servers\Homelabs: NAS, Plex, & Everything Else

[xXMASHERXx]

Thank you. I paused for a little while as I was waiting for the second SSD and have just mapped out what I want this to look like, after some further reading and further confusion but I think I'm okay now.

I was most likely getting confused as I was reading so many different people's methods - some using multiple hardware NICs (for the firewall's WAN/LAN interfaces, but as you said I won't need this), and then a mixture of the VLAN approaches, and then either pfSense or OPNsense, there was a lot to process at once

. I think I have settled on the "traditional" VLAN approach mentioned on the Proxmox wiki. I can try it out now, anyway.

Spoiler

I honestly think you're getting paralysis by analysis. The first question you should be answering, why do you need to segment your network in the first place? That will determine what you need to do.

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

Smarten up nas.

 

[FatherSimp]

Ansible is

Got my homelab fully automated

 

[Sonny Bonds]

Ansible is

Got my homelab fully automated

What all do you have set up?

 

[FatherSimp]

What all do you have set up?

Everything

AD Environment
Media Server
Database Managment Servers
Mail Server
Firewall
Wifi Controller

All configured by Ansible

 

[Heimdall]

I honestly think you're getting paralysis by analysis. The first question you should be answering, why do you need to segment your network in the first place? That will determine what you need to do.

Hmm, I think so - things fell into place quite quickly once I got started. I set up a few VMs last week, then remembered I had work to do I'll see when I can continue. Maybe today

I tried to get an LXC container running with a GUI yesterday but it wasn't very nice lol

Beyond Metasploitable/Kali and some old Windows OSes (which have no internet access, though I don't think I needed a VLAN for that!) I don't really need much segmentation, but I wanted to see how VLANs would be configured (as this is new to me) e.g. if I didn't want them to access the internet, or if I wanted 2 VLANs to be able to communicate - managing them within OPNsense seems to be relatively straightforward though I need to figure out some more rules. What I drew up is actually quite similar () in structure to this: Building a Virtual Security Home Lab: Part 1 - Network Topology

 

[xXMASHERXx]

Hmm, I think so - things fell into place quite quickly once I got started. I set up a few VMs last week, then remembered I had work to do I'll see when I can continue. Maybe today

I tried to get an LXC container running with a GUI yesterday but it wasn't very nice lol

Beyond Metasploitable/Kali and some old Windows OSes (which have no internet access, though I don't think I needed a VLAN for that!) I don't really need much segmentation, but I wanted to see how VLANs would be configured (as this is new to me) e.g. if I didn't want them to access the internet, or if I wanted 2 VLANs to be able to communicate - managing them within OPNsense seems to be relatively straightforward though I need to figure out some more rules. What I drew up is actually quite similar () in structure to this: Building a Virtual Security Home Lab: Part 1 - Network Topology

There's nothing wrong with trying to learn something. It sounded like you were building an environment and then adding/changing it without having the basics in place which is why I was saying you should sit down and map out your network. Is there any reason why you didn't follow the guide you linked?

 

[shutterguy]

WD Easystore 20TB and 22TB storage on sale at Best Buy right now. I get them and shuck the drives for my NAS units.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-easystore-20tb-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black/6500985.p?skuId=6500985

 

[shutterguy]

Forgot to mention, picked up a Synology DS1821+ awhile ago, still got the DS920+ and DS923+.

 

[Heimdall]

There's nothing wrong with trying to learn something. It sounded like you were building an environment and then adding/changing it without having the basics in place which is why I was saying you should sit down and map out your network. Is there any reason why you didn't follow the guide you linked?

Sorry, I feel like can only focus on this at weekends, but even the weekends have been running away from me this month!

The short answer is because I came across that one quite late into my search - I think that was the third long one I had found*.

It is nice and thorough and I will need to refer to it in places but there are ofc some major differences from what I am currently doing, so I cannot stick to it too closely (I use Virtualbox a lot on my laptop but wanted to try a different type of hypervisor with the M720q, hence Proxmox, and some of the VMs he uses are beyond the scope of what I aim to do )

Spoiler: *

I decided to try all this after reading some of the second one I found, but the way the network interfaces were set up here is what initially confused me. In any case it was helpful to see how Proxmox and (pf)Sense were configured.

 

[Heimdall]

2018 Lenovo ThinkCentre M720q Tiny [9th,8C] + GTX 1080 Ti @ ...

System specs It's a modded small desktop PC M720Q, replaced the low power i5-8400T by an i9-9900 cpu with UHD 630 iGPU, GTX 1080 Ti or AMD RX 480 d...

egpu.io

People are doing some wild things with these

 

[Sonny Bonds]

My container torrent & VPN setup broke on my Synology.

I really don't feel like diggin into this now to fix it.

 

[Hood Critic]

Anyone make the full transition from Plex to Jellyfin?

 

[Macallik86]

I've only used JellyFin (un)fortunately... The benefit of being late to the game was that Plex's heel-turn was in full effect by then.

Has anyone done any self-hosted automation btw (Huginn, n8n, nodered, etc)? I was looking at changedetector.io since my price watch functionality on 3camel has been breaking recently, but then I realized that I might as well try Huginn instead. Steeper learning curve but a lot more automation possibilities outside of setting price drop/in-stock alerts. Could be a deep rabbit hole, but I have utilized excel macros et al at a prior job so I'm intrigued.

Long term, I'd like to integrate the project w/ a self-hosted LLM, but I don't have the hardware/disposable income for that right now.

 

[Macallik86]

Switched ISPs after some issues w/ the my 5G Home Internet after moving.

I've been running automated speedtests before/after switching via self-hosting MySpeed.

Differences between 5G internet and cable internet are stark: