🔌 Hardware

Two Dell PowerEdge R630 servers and the network gear that ties it all together.

Compute Nodes

Both servers are identical in CPU architecture — enterprise workhorses repurposed for homelab use.

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Node — Neo

Dell PowerEdge R630 • Proxmox VE 9.1.5

  • CPU 2× Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50 GHz
    48 Threads 2 Sockets
  • RAM 62.69 GiB total
  • System Disk 38.33 GiB available
  • Kernel Linux 6.17.9-1-pve
  • Boot Mode Legacy BIOS
  • Manager pve-manager / 9.1.5
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Node — PVE

Dell PowerEdge R630 • Proxmox VE 9.1.6

  • CPU 2× Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50 GHz
    48 Threads 2 Sockets
  • RAM 94.28 GiB total
  • System Disk 219.81 GiB available
  • Kernel Linux 6.17.13-2-pve
  • Boot Mode EFI
  • Manager pve-manager / 9.1.6
Combined Cluster Totals
96 CPU Threads  •  156.97 GiB RAM  •  12.74 TiB Storage
Both nodes run independently under Proxmox VE 9.1.x. No shared storage cluster — each node manages its own workloads.

Network Infrastructure

A Ubiquiti-managed network stack providing clean segmentation, wireless coverage, and routing.

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Ubiquiti Dream Machine

Primary router, firewall, and network controller. Manages all traffic, DNS, and VLANs.

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Dell 48-Port Switch

Core layer-2 switch connecting both R630 nodes and server infrastructure.

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Ubiquiti 8-Port PoE Switch

Powers wireless access points throughout the home via PoE. Managed through UniFi.