Loren Lisk

An Image Gallery of the Homelab Built for Learning Independence

Datacenter Gallery

Every usable homelab photo since 2011, oldest first. Click a photo for the full size. The story behind them is on the homelab timeline.

Georgia 2011 – 2014

Feb 2011. Where it starts: an enclosed rack, a KVM drawer, and prometheus, a Dell PowerEdge that ran VMware vSphere, caught here at a Debian 6 login prompt.Feb 2011
Mar 2012. The rack opened up: switches and 1U servers, with a desktop tower riding along at the bottom.Mar 2012
Homelab, Dec 2012, GeorgiaDec 2012
Mar 2014. USB bitcoin miners on a powered hub, perched on top of a server.Mar 2014

Ormond Beach apartment 2014 – Jul 2015

Homelab, Nov 2014, Ormond Beach apartmentNov 2014
Homelab, Nov 2014, Ormond Beach apartmentNov 2014
Homelab, Nov 2014, Ormond Beach apartmentNov 2014
Homelab, Jan 2015, Ormond Beach apartmentJan 2015
Jan 2015. The first 30U rack, wedged into a hallway closet, purple Extreme Networks switches up top.Jan 2015
Homelab, Jan 2015, Ormond Beach apartmentJan 2015
Homelab, Jan 2015, Ormond Beach apartmentJan 2015
Jan 2015. The Summit 400-48t switches, 48 gigabit ports apiece, over a wall of 1U and 2U servers. An order confirmation dates one to October 10, 2014.Jan 2015
Homelab, Jan 2015, Ormond Beach apartmentJan 2015
Mar 2015. Recabled, with red and blue runs off the Extreme switch.Mar 2015

Daytona Beach rental Jul 2015 – Sep 2019

Homelab, Nov 2015, Daytona Beach rentalNov 2015
Homelab, Nov 2015, Daytona Beach rentalNov 2015
Homelab, Nov 2015, Daytona Beach rentalNov 2015
Homelab, Nov 2015, Daytona Beach rentalNov 2015
Homelab, Nov 2015, Daytona Beach rentalNov 2015
Homelab, Nov 2015, Daytona Beach rentalNov 2015
Homelab, Nov 2015, Daytona Beach rentalNov 2015
Nov 2015. The rack stripped down to clean and rebuild, moving boxes still in the room.Nov 2015
Homelab, Nov 2015, Daytona Beach rentalNov 2015
Homelab, Nov 2015, Daytona Beach rentalNov 2015
Homelab, Nov 2015, Daytona Beach rentalNov 2015
Nov 2015. A Supermicro 2U storage server, mid-build.Nov 2015
Homelab, Nov 2015, Daytona Beach rentalNov 2015
Homelab, Nov 2015, Daytona Beach rentalNov 2015
Homelab, Nov 2015, Daytona Beach rentalNov 2015
Homelab, Nov 2015, Daytona Beach rentalNov 2015
Homelab, Nov 2015, Daytona Beach rentalNov 2015
Homelab, Apr 2016, Daytona Beach rentalApr 2016
Apr 2016. Back in service, with fresh red patch cables.Apr 2016
Homelab, Apr 2016, Daytona Beach rentalApr 2016
Homelab, Apr 2016, Daytona Beach rentalApr 2016
Homelab, Apr 2016, Daytona Beach rentalApr 2016
Homelab, Apr 2016, Daytona Beach rentalApr 2016
Apr 2016. Then it got RGB LED strips. They lasted three or four months, until the adhesive failed and the lights had become more annoying than fun.Apr 2016
Homelab, Apr 2016, Daytona Beach rentalApr 2016
Homelab, Apr 2016, Daytona Beach rentalApr 2016
Apr 2016. Colour-cycling, with the moving boxes still stacked behind it.Apr 2016
Homelab, Apr 2016, Daytona Beach rentalApr 2016
Apr 2016. Dell PowerEdge up top, Supermicro hot-swap storage below.Apr 2016
Homelab, Apr 2016, Daytona Beach rentalApr 2016
Homelab, Dec 2016, Daytona Beach rentalDec 2016
Homelab, Dec 2016, Daytona Beach rentalDec 2016
Dec 2016. The rack in its corner, a pegboard of network gear on the wall above.Dec 2016
Homelab, Dec 2016, Daytona Beach rentalDec 2016
Homelab, Dec 2016, Daytona Beach rentalDec 2016
Homelab, Dec 2016, Daytona Beach rentalDec 2016
Homelab, Apr 2017, Daytona Beach rentalApr 2017
Homelab, Apr 2017, Daytona Beach rentalApr 2017
Apr 2017. One of three ASRock Rack C2750D4I cluster nodes: eight Atom cores on a Mini-ITX board, each bought with maxed-out RAM when that was a big purchase. Intel's Atom C2000 clock-signal bug killed all three within about a week of each other.Apr 2017
Homelab, Apr 2017, Daytona Beach rentalApr 2017
Homelab, Apr 2017, Daytona Beach rentalApr 2017
Homelab, Apr 2017, Daytona Beach rentalApr 2017
Apr 2017. Two of the C2750D4I nodes in their small cases, a switch on top, banana for scale. First item on the whiteboard: backups for all the VMs.Apr 2017
Homelab, Sep 2017, Daytona Beach rentalSep 2017
Apr 2018. The same two C2750 servers, now hung on a Wall Control metal pegboard with the network gear and a UniFi access point.Apr 2018
Apr 2018. The first ODROID, a simple NFS NAS, on the shelf beside the internet gateway.Apr 2018
Homelab, Jun 2018, Daytona Beach rentalJun 2018
Jun 2018. Servers stacked on the new flight case, bought for moving the lab between homes. It earned its keep in Sep 2019, in two or three trips.Jun 2018
Homelab, Nov 2018, Daytona Beach rentalNov 2018

Ormond Beach, today Sep 2019 – now

Dec 2019. Settled into the new house: the rack in its closet.Dec 2019
Mar 2022. More PowerEdge, same closet.Mar 2022
Homelab, Mar 2022, Ormond Beach, todayMar 2022
Homelab, May 2022, Ormond Beach, todayMay 2022
Homelab, May 2022, Ormond Beach, todayMay 2022
May 2022. A wall-mount cabinet goes up above the rack for the network gear.May 2022
Homelab, May 2022, Ormond Beach, todayMay 2022
Homelab, Sep 2022, Ormond Beach, todaySep 2022
Homelab, Jan 2023, Ormond Beach, todayJan 2023
Homelab, Jan 2023, Ormond Beach, todayJan 2023
Homelab, Jan 2023, Ormond Beach, todayJan 2023
Homelab, Oct 2023, Ormond Beach, todayOct 2023
Homelab, Oct 2023, Ormond Beach, todayOct 2023
Oct 2023. The big rack, nearly full.Oct 2023
Homelab, Jun 2024, Ormond Beach, todayJun 2024
Apr 2025. A pfSense SG-1000 fitted to a 10-inch rack plate, as the firewall for the NUC minilab's network.Apr 2025
Homelab, Apr 2025, Ormond Beach, todayApr 2025
Homelab, Jul 2025, Ormond Beach, todayJul 2025
Homelab, Jul 2025, Ormond Beach, todayJul 2025
Homelab, Jul 2025, Ormond Beach, todayJul 2025
Homelab, Jul 2025, Ormond Beach, todayJul 2025
Homelab, Jul 2025, Ormond Beach, todayJul 2025
Jan 2026. OPNsense on a Deciso DEC2700 at the top of the wall cabinet, over a keystone patch panel. It arrived in May 2025, five days before the fiber internet that now lands on its SFP+ port.Jan 2026
Apr 2026. The Minisforum refresh begins: a new 12U 10-inch rack and three 2U node cases, with the last two boards still on their way.Apr 2026
Apr 2026. The NUC minilab it replaced, photographed the same day: nuc-01 to nuc-03 (bought on eBay in June 2022) and a Netgear gigabit switch in an 8U 10-inch rack. It ran the k3s cluster in 2025 and has since been handed down to my son.Apr 2026
Homelab, May 2026, Ormond Beach, todayMay 2026
Homelab, May 2026, Ormond Beach, todayMay 2026
Homelab, Jul 2026, Ormond Beach, todayJul 2026
Homelab, Jul 2026, Ormond Beach, todayJul 2026
Jul 2026. Copper pulled: every node now talks over bonded 10 Gb fiber.Jul 2026
Homelab, Sep 2026, Ormond Beach, todaySep 2026
Homelab, Oct 2026, Ormond Beach, todayOct 2026
Oct 2026. The big rack today. Most of it is retired; the 12-bay R730xd at the top still runs TrueNAS for the cluster. The two white antennas on top are Nabu Casa Z-Wave and Zigbee radios.Oct 2026
Oct 2026. The mini rack today: the retired SG-1000 and a 5-port switch, a 2.5 Gb PoE switch with 10 Gb uplinks, a JetKVM per node, and three Ryzen 9 nodes.Oct 2026
Homelab, Oct 2026, Ormond Beach, todayOct 2026
Oct 2026. A few more ODROIDs followed to run Ceph, until ARM compatibility issues ended that experiment. They sit on a shelf now, unused.Oct 2026

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