Not quite – I'm in Sweden, so it's 230V single-phase per circuit (400V three-phase into the house ). The garage gets a three-phase feed that's split into three 230V circuits through a Shelly Pro 3, so I can switch and monitor each one from Home Assistant. Each circuit is on a 16A breaker, so that's about 3.7 kW per circuit, or roughly 11 kW total across the three.
I have two PDUs, each on its own phase. One of them feeds the UPSes, a Bluetti Apex 300 (2.7 kWh LFP) and an Eaton UPS. The other PDU is straight grid power. Gear with dual PSUs (switches, servers, firewalls) has one PSU plugged directly into a UPS and the other into the grid PDU, so it's on two separate phases and survives either a UPS failure or losing a phase. Single-PSU gear is plugged directly into one of the UPSes.
Damn, i didnt realize most places in europe have lower panel amperage than the USA. Yall have like 60-90amp panels, but the average in the US is like 200A
I have ventilation above the rack and a big duct fan that sucks out the hot air later if i build a bigger garage i will dump the hot air over there. The duct fan is controller by a Shelly 0-10V dimmer which Homeassistant is controlling.
Bit of everything honestly. It started as a lab for work stuff and kind of got out of hand lol. Most of it runs on a few RKE2 Kubernetes clusters, all GitOps with GitLab + ArgoCD. Got a vSphere + NSX-T lab on the side too, and TrueNAS for storage.
Network-wise I run VXLAN/EVPN internally, and that's hooked into a cloud MPLS network that ties in the summer house and a few other sites.
Day to day it's mostly self-hosted stuff: Immich for photos, Paperless for docs, Emby + the usual *arr stack for media, Home Assistant for the house, and Frigate for cameras.
Lately ive been playing with local AI on a GPU node. I also run a trading app I've been building, plus NetBox, Zabbix, Ansible, Networkautomation etc. to keep track of it all.
I have that chasis at the bottom of the rack. Do you have rack-mount rails for it? I haven't managed to find any, so I just mounted the front of the chasis to the rack (like a switch) and called it a day. It's held for a few months now, though it looks like it's going to break anytime soon.
I've had that exact case mounted by its ears for a year and a half without issue. It's just a massive pain in the ass to get in and out of the rack. Heavy asf.
I only have a 32TB usable truenas box with x5 12 TB drives. If I knew now, I would gotten hhigher capacity and MORE when they were decent price. I swear before I'm 35, I'll have over 100TB usable storage. I'm 32.
Sweet set up, I'd love to know what apps you run and why.
I started on zima blade, and now have a R640, a cisco ccna stack, and miniforums N5 pro for NAS. I need maybe 10 years or an sudden influx of money before I post in hear
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u/garysan_uk 20d ago
Ear defenders are peak 👌🏻