Description

The intention was to use this for the typical learning and playing about with Virtualisation, Containers etc. Main project in mind at the moment is to develop a self hosted container based game server management panel for hosting small servers with friends, in person LANs etc. The rack is fairly portable and should be nice and simple to move around. Goal was to have a single power cable and single network as the only connecting cables.

Reddit post with more info: Reddit

Rack contains

• Ikea Eket: Link
• Eket glass door: Link
• Eket feet: Link
• 6U rack rails: Link
• 10" 10 port patch lanel: Link
• 10 x Cat6 keystone couplers: Link
• 2 x TP Link Managed switch: Link
• 3 x USB Gigabit NIC: Link
• USB-C DC Barrel adapters: Link
• 10" 6 way IEC PDU: Link
• 3 x 1u 10" shelves: Link
• Custom laser cut 3mm plywood faceplates

Compute

3 x Lenovo m710q with each containing:

• i5-7500
• 32GB memory
• 1 x 480 SSD (Sata) (Boot)
• 1 x 512GB NVME (VMs and containers)
• Running Proxmox v8 in a cluster

More Photos

Rear view

Showing the USB-C to DC barrel jack connectors for powering the switches

Showing the USB-C power bank providing power to the 2 network switches and the temeperature / humidty sensors