HOMELAB: Building a Mini-Rack Homelab - Hardware (Part 1)

In this first of two videos we will build the hardware for the mini-rack homelab. 3 Node Proxmox HA + Ceph, ZFS NAS, OPNSense firewall, all in a compact rack!

Part 2: https://youtu.be/7f6Zx_obQxI

A few fantastic videos by Jeff Geerling on the mini-rack concept:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1GCIwLm3is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Ft8OAPQ3g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUJU2mdyhhA

The 2025 Mini-PC guide:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MiniPCs/comments/1hxtacs/2025_general_mini_pc_guide_usa/


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