Hardware | AORXI Homelab

Hardware documents every physical device and its role. Site A's approved target uses three UniFi Switch Pro XG 10 PoE devices as an L2 RSTP fabric behind OPNsense. Site B retains its Netgear L2 core; server, storage, and NIC allocations are unchanged.

Site A

Site A (10.10.0.0/16) runs management, ZFS storage, Proxmox Backup Server (PBS), DNS, and monitoring.

Hostname	Hardware	Role
`sa-edge-01`	Supermicro SYS-E200-8D	Proxmox host; OPNsense VM (`sa-fw-01`), WireGuard, utility workloads
`sa-cmp-01`	Lenovo ThinkPad P51	Proxmox worker / CI / dev (Intel X550-T2)
`sa-cmp-02`	Lenovo ThinkPad P52	Proxmox worker / GPU / AI / build (Intel X550-T2)
`sa-stor-01`	Supermicro 5049A-T	ZFS mirror, PBS-A, `sa-dns-01`, monitoring, databases

Switches: three USW-Pro-XG-10-PoE devices (sa-sw-01/02/03) form the L2 RSTP triangle. sa-ap-01 moves to sa-sw-03 port 6. The UCG Max and XG 6 PoE currently serve bootstrap and become retained rollback spares after Gate A8.

sa-stor-01 Onboard NIC Caveat

The 5049A-T (X11SPA-T board) has one onboard 1GbE Intel i210 (Proxmox mgmt, the red RJ45) and one onboard 10GBASE-T Aquantia AQC107. The AQC107 (atlantic driver) is avoided for critical traffic: Corosync runs on the add-in XL710/X710-class card instead.

Site B

Site B (10.20.0.0/16) runs Ceph distributed storage, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and high-core compute.

Hostname	Hardware	Role
`sb-edge-01`	Supermicro SYS-E200-8D	Proxmox host; OPNsense VM (`sb-fw-01`), WireGuard, utility workloads
`sb-cmp-01`	SYS-5019D-4C-FN8TP	Cluster bootstrap, Ceph MON/MGR, Kubernetes control-plane
`sb-cmp-02`	SYS-5019D-4C-FN8TP	Ceph MON/MGR, Kubernetes control-plane
`sb-cmp-03`	SYS-5018D-FN4T	Ceph OSD, Kubernetes worker
`sb-cmp-04`	SYS-5018D-FN4T	Ceph OSD, Kubernetes worker
`sb-cmp-05`	SYS-5018D-FN4T	Ceph OSD, Kubernetes worker

Switches: sb-sw-01 (Netgear XS748T) is the 10 Gb L2 core. sb-sw-02 (UniFi USW 24 PoE) handles access, APs, and PoE devices. The USG Pro is bootstrap/fallback only.

NIC Pool

Six multiport 10 Gb NICs are in inventory; all are allocated with no spare (confirmed 2026-06-06).

Card	Qty	Allocation
Intel X710-T4	5	One per Site B node: `sb-cmp-01`-`sb-cmp-05`
XL710/X710-class quad-port	1	Pre-installed in `sa-stor-01` (VLAN trunks, Corosync)
Intel X550-T2	2	One each for `sa-cmp-01` and `sa-cmp-02`

No spare X710-T4 remains and no Site B node carries two cards. See NIC Allocation for per-port VLAN wiring.

Storage Pools

Storage inventory spans three 1.92 TB enterprise SSD families and 512 GB M.2 boot drives.

Data drives:

Model	Qty	Priority use
Samsung SM863	20	Site A ZFS mirrors; flexible Site B Ceph or spares
Micron 5200 MAX	10	Site B Ceph, write-heavy OSDs
Micron 5300 Pro	8	Site B Ceph, VM / Kubernetes persistent storage

Boot drives:

Model	Qty	Form factor
Samsung 512GB NVMe M.2	5	NVMe M.2
Samsung SM9A1 NVMe M.2	1	NVMe M.2
Micron 1300 SATA M.2	1	SATA M.2

sa-stor-01 targets 8-12 SM863 drives in ZFS mirror vdevs. Site B targets 20-30 Ceph OSDs across all five compute nodes at replication size 3. The 5049A-T already has a boot drive; do not use 1.92 TB enterprise SSDs as Proxmox boot drives.

RAM Pool

All Supermicro servers use DDR4 ECC RDIMM. ThinkPads cannot accept RDIMM.

17 × 32 GB DDR4 RDIMM available for distribution across Supermicro hosts.
sa-stor-01 (5049A-T) already has 96 GB (6 × 16 GB DDR4-2933 ECC RDIMM).
To bring every non-5049 Supermicro to 128 GB requires 28 × 32 GB sticks: 11 more beyond current inventory.

5049A-T RAM Upgrade Path Not Confirmed

Upgrade options range from 192 GB (add 6 × 16 GB) to 384 GB (replace with 12 × 32 GB). The decision has not been finalized. Do not mix RDIMM and LRDIMM. See RAM & Storage Allocation.

Hardware References

Per-site Inventory: complete host tables with per-NIC, RAM, and storage columns
NIC Allocation: per-card assignment and per-port VLAN wiring
RAM & Storage Allocation: drive-to-host and RAM-to-host mapping, ZFS and Ceph pool plans