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I literally do. Two DC Gigabit switches, a ProLiant DL360 Gen9 with 500-600W peak power draw, a Workstation with a Xeon E5-2680v4 and a 1070, so another few hundred W. Another DL360 Gen9 is probably not that far away, and external drive enclosures are needed even more.
If you want data center vibes and grow house power usage your next upgrade should be an sfp+ aggregation switch for those servers, 1G switches, and your router. Then you can run copper DACs or even fiber if you want to get fancy.
My goal is to wire my fiber internet connection to my server with SFP+, but I also want to access it (eg. the iLO) via that fiber connection when the server is off, so I'd need to rely on my old copper internet for that. But then it's not really redundant. So I do still need a proper router, and idk anything about enterprise routers lol
I’m a big fan of MikroTik for enterprise grade routers without the subscription/licensing shit, and at a much more affordable price than stuff from Cisco, Arista, Juniper, etc. I have my ISP router set up in bridge mode, so it just passes all traffic through to my MikroTik router. Then the firewall stuff is all on the Tik.
You can hook the server’s NICs up to the sfp+ switch, but still connect the ilo to the copper 1G switch. So you still have router on stick to sfp+ switch, then 1G switches both connect to sfp+ switch. If you want to dive into ospf or stp/rstp you can create loops, so wiring the switches to each other and all to the router, but theres obv some more configuration stuff to learn with all that.
Idk maybe I’m misunderstanding. In the spirit of the original article, you should add another server to your lab and run eve-ng bare metal on it so you can simulate huge network topologies before buying new networking gear and make the cops think your grow op is even bigger.