Subj : Re: New firewall.
To   : Veeb0rg #1
From : Weatherman
Date : Mon May 06 2024 07:34 am


V> Glad to see I'm not the only one with an slightly overly complex home
V> network. Course I do networking for a job..

Me too.  :)  I guess you could say it is my hobby and job.  It is always nice 
hearing from others that have abnormally large home networks.  These are a few 
of the things I have and run at home.

(3) Supermicro 4U rack mount servers - (2) running ESXi and (1) running Windows 
Server for my cheap man's SAN with 130TB of storage.  My ESXi servers have 300 
gigs of ram and dual Xeon CPUs.  The ESXi servers have tiered storage.  I have 
an SSD, spinner, and iSCSI LUN.

(2) Cisco 3650 switches - around (90) wired ethernet drops in the house.  (5) 
Cisco 3702 APs for around 55 wireless clients (mainly Smarthome devices).

I also am big into Home Automation and have the bulk of things running local 
using Home Assistant.  I have several wall mounted Android tablets for that use 
with (9) security cameras.

I also have a total of (9) APC UPS units to keep the critical systems online 
due power blips.  Long ago, I ran at least (4) ethernet drops to each room of 
the house, including around (8) of them outside and in the garage.  

I am also a storage hoarder and there is never enough storage for me.  
In the next year or so, I would like to get another more recent Supermicro 4U 
server for my ESXi environment.  One that uses DDR4 and can take higher end 
CPUs since I max the CPUs at times with my (31) VMs.  Yes, I can't believe I 
run that many VMs now.  The number just keeps creeping up.

- Mark

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