Lab Equipment

What's in my Lab?

The proving ground. Self-hosted infrastructure, automation, and services that I run because I'd rather build it than buy it (well, I build on it after I buy it)...and because breaking things at home teaches you things that production never will.

Most of what you see here runs in a 37U Sysrack across the room in my office. So it's never cold in my office in the Summer or Winter. It's also only running with I need it. With ever rising energy costs in Texas, I try to be mindful (hence so many Mini-Machines that still pack a punch).

Machine Name Make Hardware Purpose
Basilisk MINISFORUM EliteMini HX90
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX		 8 Core 16 Threads
64GB DDR4 RAM
1x 2 TB m.2NVMe
2 x Samsung 2TB SSD		 ProxMox Hypervisor
POC Testing Server
Manticore MINISFORUM EliteMini HX90
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX		 8 Core 16 Threads
64GB DDR4 RAM
1x 2 TB m.2NVMe
2 x Samsung 2TB SSD		 ProxMox Hypervisor
- Home Services
-Forgejo Git Repo
Cerberus MINISFORUM EliteMini HX90
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX		 8 Core 16 Threads
64GB DDR4 RAM
1x 2 TB m.2NVMe
2 x Samsung 2TB SSD		 ProxMox Hypervisor
- System Monitoring
- ProxMox Backup Server
TheDodo MINISFORUM EliteMini HX90
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX		 8 Core 16 Threads
64GB DDR4 RAM
1x 2 TB m.2NVMe
2 x Samsung 2TB SSD		 ProxMox Hypervisor
- 4 x F5 BIG-IP VE Lab Boxes
- 3 x Test Node LXC Containers
Medusa MINISFORUM N5 Pro · AI NAS - 5-Bay NAS
- 96GB DDR5 ECC RAM		 ProxMox Hypervisor
- Isolation VLAN AdGuard DNS Servers
- Work Services
- Hermes-Agent Test Server
- TrueNAS
Olympus 45Drives HL15 · 15-bay SuperMicro H11SSL-i Version 2.0
EPYC 7301 - 16 Core / 32 Thread Processor
256GB DDR4 RAM		 Primary Storage — TrueNAS ZFS backbone
- Pending Configuration
Kenny Supermicro 2U Server Chassis SuperMicro H11SSL-i Version 2.0
EPYC 7551 - 32 Core / 64 Thread Processor
256GB DDR4 RAM		 I'm going to kill Kenny
- Will be recomissioned when I get another HL15
MacMiniM4LLM Apple Mac Mini M4 Pro 64GB Unified Memory Dedicated LLM Inference Box
- LM Studio
- Hermes-Agent
- Claude
- Claude-Code (Anthropic)
- Claude-Code (LLM Override)
No-Name-Yet Apple Mac Mini M4 48GB Unified Memory Dedicated LLM inference box
Minotaur Asus Ascent GX10 128GB Unified Memory · AI Workstation AI Workstation - Awaiting A Role
Zimaboard 1 ZimaBoard 832 N3450 Processor - 4 Cores
8GB RAM
32GB eMMC 5.1
500GB SSD		 ProxMox Hypervisor
- AdGuard DNS - Internal DNS (Primary)
- AdGuard DNS - WiFi DNS (Primary)
Zimaboard 2 ZimaBoard 832 N3450 Processor - 4 Cores
8GB RAM
32GB eMMC 5.1
500GB SSD		 ProxMox Hypervisor
- AdGuard DNS - Internal DNS (Secondary)
- AdGuard DNS - WiFi DNS (Secondary)
Captain Nemo Zimaboard 2 1664 Intel N150 - 4 Cores
16GB LPDDR5 RAM
32GB EMMC
2TB Samsung SSD		 Experimental
- Was running NemoClaw (Currently Offline)
The Crypt Synology DS918+ 4-bay NAS
Intel Celeron J3455 Quad-Core Processor
2 x 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD Cache		 Storage
Slipstream Synology DS220+ 2-bay NAS
Intel Celeron J4025 Dual-Core Processor		 Storage
TheAuthor Synology DS218j 2-bay NAS
1.3 GHz dual-core processor
512 MB of RAM		 Storage