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Jonah Soto's Homelab (Started 9/13/26)
Jonah Soto's Homelab (Started 9/13/26)
This homelab environment is designed to develop hands on skills related to virtualization, networking, containerization, and many more subskills.
This homelab is made a few pieces of hardware.
DeskPi RackMate T1-Plus
10-inch, 8U, Equipment Rack
Included 2 Raspberry Pi 4/5 mount 1U rack mount w/ daugher boards
Lenovo ThinCentre M700
Intel Core i5-6500T
8gb DDR4 Sodimm Memory
128gb generic M.2 NVMe SSD
Mounted on a 3D-printed Rack
8 Port, Gigibit, Unmanaged Switch (TL-SG108)
Notes: will be upgraded to a managed switch in the future.
Mounted on a 3D-printed Rack
10-Inch, 1U, PDU with surge protection
4 ports
12 port, 3D-printed, Keystone Patch Panel
Currently populated with 12 RJ45 Keystones
Planned to utilize keystone slots 9-12 for I/O specific keystones (USB-C, AUX, Mini HDMI, etc)
Fig 1
Fig 2
Setup
Setup
Rack setup
Rack setup
The rack remained simple to setup, as all 1U rack mounts and blank faces were simple to screw in. I decided on having the switch face the perceived from of the rack to easily manipulate future network patch cables.
Connection setup
Connection setup
To connect the actual infrustructure the whole environment is derived from my ISP's router's switch. It is extended to the WAN port on the rack's switch. The switch connects to the patch panel via patch cables. I made the patch cables and all utilized ethernet/RJ45 cables with 2gb/s rated, CAT6, unsheielded data cable with unshielded RJ45 connectors. All cables tested for quality connection, not speed. Figure 1, in the images above shows the patch cables themself. And Figure 2, shows a custom length cable to conenct the switch to the original/current node.
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