I'm going to paint my office in the next couple of weeks, which'll mean
taking down my homelab and recabling everything. I'm lookng forward to
it. The walls are sort of a pale blue, and I have to correct for a blue
cast when I'm on video.

I have an old Asian armoire that serves as my server cabinet - it's got
16 apothecary drawers full of cables, drives, old phones, earbuds and
assorted crap. Inside are a color inkjet printer, color laser and one
Proxmox node running in a desktop PC.

On top is the mess - https://realitycheckbbs.org/images/homelab.jpg

A Synology NAS, 8 port gig switch, thinkpad running Proxmox and an
OpenWRT router. The cables are a complete mess, as is power. I have a
UPS on the floor with a couple of power strips fed from it inside the
armoire.

I'm going to shore up the legs of the armoire, it's already holding way
more than it should. Once it's pulled away from the wall, it's time to
manage cables. It'll be nice to get everything labeled, documented and
cables dressed before putting it back up against the wall.

That reminds me, I should place an order with Monoprice for a couple of different sizes of cables. I think I have 6 foot cables where a 1 foot
cable would do.

I've seen some interesting deals on rough-condition newer thinkpads,
would like to find one with more than the 4 cores, 4 threads I'm
currently running. NVMe would be nice, too.



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