About

2026-02-10SPARCie

About me

WIP

I’m a 31 year old Kubernetes, Linux/UNIX, DEC and Amiga geek.

My Homelab

2024-11-03SPARCie

What do i use for hobbying

So i own several systems that can be considered homelab, not all of which are modern.

Network

Mikrotik Switch (managed Layer 2), 2x 10GB and 24 1G)
Routing through a old load-balancer with OPNSense (connected through 10GB)
3x Unifi UAP-AC PRO
A DEC/|D|I|G|I|T|A|L| DECserver 716 console-sevrer

Infrastructure

The always-on stuff

Dell NAS (with Debian) for:
- Storage (duh!)
- my IRC-client for communitcation NurdSpace and my former (internship-)colleagus at BIT BV
- Gitea
- This site
- Other stuff
Intel NUC 12 pro
- Intel I5-1250P
- 64GB DDR4 (non-ECC :/)
- NVME 2TB SSD
- SATA 2TB SSD
- Applications:
  - IPAM at home
  - RKE2-cluster (which i’ll move most of the Docker-stuff to)
  - RDS-VDI
  - ADDC
  - My virtual DEC VAX (HYUNA on HECnet)
  - my connection to HECnet
A zBook 15 G2 a broken GPU and ESXi 7 for my retro-stuff
- My Windows Server 2003 R2 DC for my vintage IT-stuff
- Novell Netware 6.5 SP8 for the DOS-stuff
- SCO OpenServer 7 for playing around in
- The Solaris 10 and 11-VM’s for netboot and repositories for their respective versions

The stuff i power on when needed

Sun Microsystems
- SPARC Enterprise T5120
  - 32 threads
  - 32GB DDR2 FB-DIMM
  - 1x 146GB disk for Solaris 11
  - 2x 600GB for LDOMS/VMs
SPARC Enterprise T5220
- 32 threads
- 32GB DDR2 FB-DIMM
- 8x 146GB disk for Solaris 10 in a huge RAID-0 (YOLO)
- runs zones
HPE
- Proliant DL380e Gen8
  - 2x Intel Xeon E5-2430L v2 (hexa-core)
  - 256GB DDR3 RDIMM
  - Assorted mess of storage (both SSD and HDD)
  - Runs KVM, LXD and MicroK8S for stuff like training courses and playing around
  - also contains my Turnkey MVS-instance in Hercules
DEC
- AlphaServer DS20E
  - 1x EV67 800Mhz (i have the second cpu as a spare)
  - 1GB RAM
  - disks depend on whether i’m running OpenVMS or Tru64
  - 2GB QLogic FC
  - HECnet node JIMIN
- AlphaServer DS25E
  - 2x EV68 1Ghz
  - 5120GB RAM
  - 2x 72GB for both OpenVMS 8.4 and VSI OpenVMS 8.4H2
  - 2x 146GB for data (shared between with OpenVMS installs) (RAID1)
  - 2GB QLogic FC
  - HECnet node D25SPK
- AlphaServer ES47
  - 2x EV7 1.25Ghz
  - 4096MB RDRAM (RAIM, AKA RAID5 with RIMMS!!!)
  - Has issues regarding CPU 1
- VAXStation 4000 Model 60
  - KA46 VAX processor
  - 32MB RAM
  - 2x 72GB SCSI disk (one for OpenVMS, one for data)
  - HECnet node CHOA
- MicroVAX/VAXStation 2000
  - KA410 VAX Processor
  - 2MB RAM (4MB if i get the RAM board working)
  - Ethernet
  - 40MB RD32 in unknown state
  - console over DB9 had a issue
- AlphaServer 1000e (EV5 version)
  - EV56 500 Mhz
  - 768MB RAM
  - Has some weird issue with SCSI that i’m debugging, can only boot NT (and maybe other OSES from AlphaBios) ATM
  - HECnet node name once i get OpenVMS running again: A1KSPK

Other stuff

Storage:
- Homebuild SuperMicro X10SLL-F
  - i7-4790
  - 32GB DDR3 (NON-ECC)
  - boot SSD (240GB) (SATA)
  - HDDs (both SATA):
    - 1TB
    - 2TB
  - Fibre channel (all QLogic):
    - 1x single 4GB
    - 1x dual 8GB
  - Ethernet
    - 2x 1GB built-in
  - Runs DataCore for a course and some LXC stuff on Proxmox (first node)
- Homebuild with some Gigabyte gaming board (old one from my cousin):
  - i7-7700K
  - 32GB DDR4
  - SSD: 240GB SATA
  - HDD (all SATA):
    - 1TB
    - 2TB
  - Fibre channel (all QLogic):
    - 1x single 4GB
    - 1x dual 8GB
  - Ethernet
    - 1x 1GB built-in (Luckily Intel)
  - Runs DataCore for a course on Proxmox (second node)
- Brocade B320
  - All available licenses :3
  - 24 ports
SuperMicro
- TBD

Why KVM?

2024-11-03SPARCie

Why use KVM?

Due to the Big.Little-like architecture of the 12th gen core-CPU’s most other hypervisors (like ESXi and Xen/XCP-NG) cannot use all cores.