All that Ubiquiti gear makes my wallet sweat, and my eyes water like im cutting onions.

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

Ha, I know. I'm glad I bought all this stuff a long time ago 😂

@admir0687

Жыл бұрын

😂

@stefanbehrendsen330

5 ай бұрын

@@admir0687 not as badly as new cisco gear would. There's a reason there's so much ubiquiti out and about.

his "unfinished" part of his basement is more finished than my entire basement 😂

Nice to see someone get to the point and show their own little tricks they've learned on the way.

As someone who is moving house soon and looking to setup my first rack this was super helpful. Thanks

Nice setup.. also running unifi myself. Never knew they had lights, sad they discontinued them. KEEP going - home lab is NEVER over kill!

We love the homelab! Thanks for sharing!

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

thank you!

I love these kind of videos. Wish I had a rack mount server w a patch panel, lol I love looking at the blinking lights

Thanks for sharing. 👍🏻

Great setup and thank you for your honest comments.

@clabretro

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Love your setup ! Neat workshop you have too !

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Nice dude, very clean setup!

Great Video

Interesting. Congratulations!

Thanks for the tour!

You Spend lots of money, need more organize, and I learn so many things, thanks. Keep posting a new video.thanks

Great setup thanks for sharing. You should do a vid on your proxmox setup to

Excelent video! awesome setup

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

thanks!

Nice setup.

Great video. As ideas, you can put another patch gap into the spot for patch panel -- looks like you already have a lot of space in existing patch panels.

Love the tour! Been wanting to make my own little homelab setup just to have some more control over my own data. Still don't understand half the things you mention in this video but still enjoyed it lol

@clabretro

11 ай бұрын

it's a journey. just dive in and get started!

😍Very Nice!

Good to know that keystones like you have here do not cause much of headache. I was on the fence about buying a patch panel with RJ45 pass through couplers but this video helped seal the deal. :)

@clabretro

3 ай бұрын

haven't had any trouble!

man this is a great setup love the old dell servers

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, they're great.

Im inspired

Love the R720, running two at home myself as proxmox nodes.

@clabretro

6 ай бұрын

great machine

Love it. Jealous as well

I have my "home lab" with all the old Cisco stuff on a Zigbee smart switch running Home Assistant. That way I can turn it off to save power and turn it on from the house to start them up. Then they are booted up by the time I go to the garage. Maybe you can get a more efficient 24/7 server and use those when you are playing around.

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

Nice! Clever idea. Yeah eventually I'm gonna have to get more efficient servers for 24/7 use and power these old guys up on-demand.

really liked the video. im a unifi geek myself. constantly looking to add/upgrade and expand. wish i bought the unifi ceiling lights a few years ago....bummed they are no longer available. - just subbed, keep up the vids bro!

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

thanks! yeah I hope they revive the LED line, they're really nice. and you can actually run the LED controller software on the UDM Pro which is pretty cool.

Pretty much same setup I have. I also run an older Blue Iris with 5 cams and my Protect has 8. Your cabling is much better than mine. I use my 10 yo home built atx computer for my Truenas and I bought a QNap for redundancy. It’s all about redundancy.

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

yeah been eyeing qnap as something I could back the TrueNAS up to, or maybe go your route and build a cheap machine to run a second TrueNAS instance on.

We need more unifi videos like this! Can you show us your protect setup including where each of your cameras are located!?

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

definitely planning some videos like that!

Rarely does anyone bother to state the power circuits they are using for their home labs. Thank you for mentioning that you are using (2) non-dedicated 15A circuits and are considering a dedicated 20A. Are you going to stick with 120V or jump up 240V? How much power (watts) does that rack draw at peak usage?

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

Initially I'm going to put a dedicated 20A just for the rack (I'll probably run two dedicated 20A lines while I'm in there for the future). But I'm slowly getting into older and older gear (not to run full time, just for tinkering and historical interest), so I'll tackle a 240V if I ever need it. I'm embarrassed to say I haven't measured the power yet! I've only had this rack off once or twice in three years, I tell myself every time I'm going to throw the kill-a-watt on there each time but I always forget. Planning to do that next time I need to power off the whole rack.

I am now studying to get into the industry and am currently building my first home lab. You setup is giving me some inspiration.

@clabretro

9 ай бұрын

Awesome!

Just came accross this vid, i was about to decommission and sell my r720, cause constantly travel for work and in combination with another r720XD - they swallow electricity like graboids. Will wait for tour of ur VMs etc.

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

Yeah great machines but they're real power hogs. Might have to face the facts someday and build some more efficient servers.

Nice setup using old Tech I will be looking to see a video a few mounting the P Supply on your rack will you also be doing besides looking forward to that

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

That's the plan!

Nice video. I don't feel good running a power hungry server 24/7/365 until I install solar at my place.

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

Yeah totally agree!

Have you measured your rack's consumption with a meter? Depending on how often they are idle vs busy, you might be surprised. My own rack with similar Unifi gear, KVM and an R710, R720 with 24-bay external drive chassis only consumes 5kWh per day. Our setup is also offset by solar, which definitely helps, but even if we didn't have solar, it's not super expensive on its own - at a general cost of 30c per kWh, that's roughly $1.50 a day (plus the daily supply charge you can't avoid regardless).

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

I haven't yet, I actually got kill-a-watt just for this purpose but haven't gotten around to trying it out yet. That's actually really encouraging to hear about your similar setup.

Now that's my definition of a true man cave, I would keep it a little bit neater but still I'm jealous of all that space you have.

@clabretro

11 ай бұрын

Haha thanks, yeah I definitely don't keep things as neat as I should.

Nice set up!! Any chance on future videos showing how you did the NAS and more on the home automation??

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! And definitely. There's tons of excellent TrueNAS tutorial videos out there, but I was thinking about doing an overview video of my particular setup and how I use it.

@gjohannes1344

Жыл бұрын

@@clabretro How have you liked TrueNAS. I went the lazy approach and did a Synology NAS, kind of love it and hate it at the same time and eventually need to expand it.

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

Just made a video going over my TrueNAS setup: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z5l1k6eEecq1d7Q.html I've liked it a lot and it's rock solid, but definitely more involved than something like Synology or QNAP. I've been tempted to get one of those to back the TrueNAS up to.

@gjohannes1344

Жыл бұрын

@@clabretro Thanks for the response. Watched the TrueNAS setup video and subscribed to the channel!!! Thanks for the awesome content.

@daillengineer

Жыл бұрын

@@gjohannes1344 i went with synology a few years ago with a simple DS220+. Then i added a 418 for backup of the 220. Then i needed more data storage so i got the 1621 two months ago. And a few weeks ago i build a machine for TrueNas and Proxmox. TrueNas is great for raw storage but i still like the synology more for its software. I use the TrueNas build with three PCIe gen 3 NVMe drives to edit pictures off of. That now backs up over 10Gb to the 1621 and the 1621 backs up to backblaze as well as the 418 synology. Lots of redundancy. My 1621 has four 4TB SSDs in raid 5 and two 16TB in raid 1 for cold storage of stuff i don’t really access much. To save on cloud storage i only back up my most important of photos and videos to backblaze. So pretty much just family photos and videos that are priceless to me.

Nice setup. Your basement/home has an interesting layout. Is it a custom home?

@clabretro

11 ай бұрын

Thanks! It was a new build and there were several plans to choose from, but our only real flexibility was with finishes (cabinets, flooring, etc) throughout the house. The irony is I spend tons of time down in this unfinished portion 😄

I remodeled my home in 2015, ran cat6 everywhere. Building my Homelab now. Thank you for the videos, a guy can learn a lot from you.

@clabretro

10 ай бұрын

Very nice. This house has cat6 everywhere too, though I wish I had done more drops (you always do haha). Thanks for watching!

@robertclanin3148

10 ай бұрын

I know what you mean, I'm still tracking cables that seem to disappear into thin air @@clabretro

can recommend backblaze B2 as a backup destination

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

I've heard good things, I'll check that out!

I am in the process of doing this and just got the udm pro se a few g3 flex mini wifi indoor cameras and a 24 port poe switch. I have the same cabinet as you for my networking stuff and I have been trying to figure out what to do with it since it's a mess and has 110 punch down blocks because the cat5e cable was split for telephone which no one uses anymore. I might redo the ends with key stones and feed it directly into the 24 poe switch I just got. The previous homeowner didn't know what he was doing so I don't think I can put a patch panel in my rack once i find one. I inherited someone else's problem. I am getting multi gigabit fiber this summer from the city so I am getting ready for that. I am also looking for a rack and dont know what to get.

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

yeah you could definitely get the ends of the drops into keystones and go from there. I'd recommend a temporary setup for awhile without a rack, that way you can run everything and decide what you need.

@pachjo123

Жыл бұрын

@@clabretro I finally replace the punch down block with keystones when I upgraded to multi gigbit internet and replaced the old equipment with Omada. Before doing this for some reason I still dont understand why but I was stuck on 400 mbps even with the new equipment and my poe switch could not provide poe to supported devices. I replaced all 16 connections from the punch download to keystones and everything started to improve a lot. Not only that but on Omada I started to get thousands of associations errors before the switch over to keystones now I basically have 0 errors. I think the original owner bought the cheapest punch down block ever because once all that was done it has worked perfectly at 1.2 GBPS. Not only that but thanks to Omada I have 100% coverage on Wi-Fi in a 3500 sqft house and no matter where i am on supported devices I get at least 700 mbps on wifi. I also got ipv6 working on Omada with Xfinity and I get 18 out of 20 on ipv6 tests so for people who are wondering omada does support Xfinity ipv6 actually I got a higher score then my old equipment.

In your video, you called the NVR a UNVR Pro. Actually that one is just the UNVR. The Pro version is 2RU with 7 drive bays.

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

You're totally right, my mistake. I was excited when the pro came out, but I don't even have the UNVR maxed out with drives yet 😆

Love the dells XDs. What is your security system that can connect to your synology drives?

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

Same here, they're great machines. I'm using Unifi's NVR for security + footage storage, and that Dell R510 is a NAS running TrueNAS. No synology stuff yet!

@DesignerDigital

Жыл бұрын

@@clabretro You are using Unifi NVR software to manage the recordings? Or is it an specific unifi equipment with cameras? I have the NVR night owl 4k Security cams and trying to understand how to unite it with my r820 properly, for storage and hopefully some better software to control them.

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

Yeah the NVR runs Unifi Protect and acts as its own RAID server, so my particular camera setup doesn't actually interact with or store anything on my Dell servers.

Great setups look forward to doing a unifi homeland myself Though I don’t understand why so many people have unfinished basement rooms and thousands of dollars of gear. Would simply invest some in finishing the rooms.

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

heh, I like the unfinished look. I probably spend more time in the unfinished parts of my basement than the finished parts 😆

@tcasex

9 ай бұрын

@@clabretro why waste the money if it works. ha

Whats that TV stand in the beginning of the video, looking for something similar.

@clabretro

6 ай бұрын

It's this one: www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-46-in-W-x-24-in-D-Steel-Adjustable-Height-Solid-Wood-Top-Workbench-Table-in-Black-HOLT46XDB12/301809931. It's actually adjustable but in practice I've never moved it up or down after I set it where I wanted ha.

Very nice setup. I'm shocked at how closely our Server setup is. I highly recommend that you get that battery backup though. Get yourself a Tripp-Lite, it would be a good addition.

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

Which tripp-lite do you recommend? Battery backup is definitely next on the list.

@RichardSwift

Жыл бұрын

@@clabretro I got the Tripp-Lite SMART1500LCDXL back in 2020 and I'm very happy with it.

Nice setup . can you show what are you running in proxmox? please

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

Starting with TrueNAS, but I'll get a proxmox video up too kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z5l1k6eEecq1d7Q.html

@zapa1972

Жыл бұрын

@@clabretro yeah i saw that, ty

Question why patch to a patch? Going directly into keystone patch you can also take keystone out and move

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

Good question, I definitely could've done punch downs on the patch panels in the rack. My thinking at the time was having the most flexibility, and this way I can pull those 15 footers out and use them as-is. But obviously it'd be pretty easy just to crimp some connectors on them as needed, so it was probably overkill to do everything patch to patch like this. I do really like having the drops from the house go into those pass-through keystones though, it's been nice to be able to reconfigure certain drops with minimal effort. If I remember correctly I also did it this way because I just wasn't quite sure how I was going to build everything out.

those white soft walls do resemble NASA a bit 😄

@clabretro

5 ай бұрын

😂

Pretty massive server for a little Minecraft.

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

I should probably run like 20 of them 😂

Damn 11:36 I feel sorry for those drives and the ones spinning above. Nice setup though.

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

haha they're tough (so far). thanks!

Why not UDM SE? Vs Pro, I mean. I'm just curious. I am leaning towards the SE for the PoE funcionality. But then again, it's just me, by my lonesome in a 1`bdrom apartment. Talk about overkill for most of this stuff lol but ya gotta learn somewhere

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

SE wasn't out yet when I picked up the Pro. I haven't used the SE but based on the POE alone it'd be the better route to go, makes the Unifi Protect capabilities make a lot more sense. And yeah, it's all overkill but I guess that's half the fun haha.

13:37 Be careful! it might be code where you are that you need drywall blocking off the area under the stairs. You can probably just add some sheets to the bottom of the stairs (the ceiling in that little room) to meet the requirements

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

yeah true, I suspect the builders left it enclosed for whatever code reasons.

You should also get UniFi's patch panels, OCD brush panel, OCD blank panels, and OCD vented panels.

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

ha, but then they wouldn't match the power edges!

Thats a gang of Dreamcasts

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

gotta stay stocked up 😎

3 4 gb survallance hdds damn that is alot of syorage.. you can. Save what 15min?

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

haha yeah didn't notice that until I uploaded. meant to say three 4 terabyte drives 😂

how much power do you use? what's the kWh price in your location?

@clabretro

11 ай бұрын

I believe it's around $0.15/kWh. these use a lot of power... the R720 alone pulls over 200 watts (at least according to the power info in the IDRAC). I'm planning to throw a kill-a-watt on the rack next time I take it down for maintenance, but it's only ever been taken down a few times in three years so the chances are few and far between ha. Not the most efficient setup, I'd love to augment it with solar one day. But I think I'll have to face the facts and move to some more efficient servers eventually.

Cloud

super

I also refuse to punch down

R510 kinda old takes so much power for less cores

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I like running it and playing around, but someday I'll make it into a backup NAS that I only power on periodically.

What's the depth of that rack?

@clabretro

7 ай бұрын

it's adjustable but I have it set to about 30 inches.

Why doesn't anyone buy CAT8 to future proof their wires/bandwidth for the next 15 years?

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

Yeah just cat5e for me right now... 1GB feels like more than I'll ever need, but I'll regret that soon I bet.

@valeenoi2284

Жыл бұрын

@@clabretro 45 Gb bandwidth is just about around the corner... alright... I don't know what I'm talking about. But it's always fun to mindlessly future proof your own networks when you are on a 300 Mb bandwidth from your ISP but everything else in your network is setup for Gb+. I tried to buy CAT8 for my small setup at home (ranging from 10ft to 15ft, 8x), and it cost me $250 last year. All made in the U.S. though.

Nice setup, but it must be expensive to run all the equipment 24/7

@clabretro

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, need to eventually phase out those power-hungry Dells.

honestly you would laugh at my server though its a backup/plex server but mine is a old Dell PE t320 with a12gb of ram, 1 250gb crucial mx500, 2 2tb Seagate contellation es2 or 3 i cant remember at this time, 2 2tb wd blue drives oh and the cpu is a xeon e5-2470 (upgraded from a 2403)....i actually salvaged this server and made upgrades to it none of the drives are in raid but i started off with no drives the crucial drive was new while the seagate drives i bought used and the wd drives was moved from another build i have like 3 empty drive bays for harddrives i may use those slots in the future to make a backup of the boot drive and the backup drive in the future though

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

naw that sounds great! i've always wanted one of those power edge towers.

Where is the UNVR PRO, I only see UNVR!!

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

Yeah whoops. Kept calling it pro accidentally

BRO! The Unifi LED Panels?! Very glad I stayed through the end. Is much changed in 2024?

@clabretro

6 ай бұрын

not much different! the panels are sweet but I'm gonna regret it, unifi has totally deprecated them haha. only a matter of time before the controller software stops working I suspect

@AtGnat8

5 ай бұрын

@@clabretro another side lab time capsule to run some lights 🤷‍♂️

Great lab bro. Congratulations. Very neat. I have a lab my self too. Check my videos when it’s possible.

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Impressive setup. I've been wanting to try out some MikroTik gear too.

To be honest I hardly click on these videos anymore because it’s always some dude just showing a rack of the exact same ubiquity gear. No shade, I think they are a great product fit for the market, there’s just nothing to learn unless they have interesting cabling or something else novel.

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, this setup is pretty typical. Made a lot of sense a few years ago, but if I was to rebuild today I'd explore other brands like MikroTik.

@Alan.livingston

Жыл бұрын

@@clabretro It's a great setup you have. The nice interface Ubiquity give you is pretty hard to go past. I'm going to steal your idea of using the keystones just in case I have to lift & shift my gear at any point.

@DonaldMolter

Жыл бұрын

I’d say it’s because it’s not only fairly easy to configure the gear but the cost is another factor. Ubiquiti gear Vs other enterprise gear that’s new or fairly recent has a much larger price tag

you got your rack in with a furnace? will that not be too warm in there?

@clabretro

Жыл бұрын

I was worried about that at first but it actually hasn't been a problem. it's definitely warm in there but way below the allowed operating thresholds for any of that equipment, and definitely under what they'd experience in an actual data center I think.

@svgmateYT

Жыл бұрын

@@clabretro That's good then, you'd think it would be too WARM LOL! and i have been inside a data center, its like being in a sauna