Home rack – presentation and tips for beginners

Home Lab Beginners guide. Check out a cool 12U rack with devices such as Cisco, pfSense, PRTG, and Synology

Language: english

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Instructor(s): Marious Kuriata

Last update: 2022-11-12

What you’ll learn

Why and how to build a home rack
Arrange cables and patch cords
Monitor your network
Install pfSense

Requirements

Basic IT skills

Description

Home Lab Beginners guide. Check out this course to learn how I built a cool 12U rack at home. Learn how to choose a proper rack, run all the cables, get the best cable organizers, install additional fans and LED lights. Want to learn a bit more about UPS and power? I will show you what UPS I bought, installed, and configured.

This is not just about hardware. I show you my network diagram, a quick overview of pfSense (open source firewall), and a cool monitoring system called PRTG that I display using an old iPAD.

What will you learn?

Unique course that reveals how to start building a network at home
Home lab guides
Cabling and patch cords
Arranging all the cables
pfSense installed on Protectli (a small PC)
Monitoring system using PRTG
A lot of tips and recommendations
High quality videos (FullHD)
Gadgets (fans, LED lights)
UPS and power cables
Perfect cabling
And more….

This is more like a presentation, an idea that you could recreate at home. Devices I have used: pfSense, Synology (for Twingate VPN), Cisco (switch & router), iPAD (monitoring), APC UPS, a lot of cable organizers, patch cords, and effort.

This course is short but cost me a lot of time to create. I hope you will enjoy it!

Who this course is for

Anyone interested in networking

Course content

Introduction
- Intro
- What to expect
Presentation
- Overview of my 12U rack
- Devices
- Cabling
- Gadgets
Software
- Network diagram
- Overview of pfSense and PRTG
- A bit more about Protectli
- Thank you!
Extra Lectures
- Installing pfSense using a virtual machine
- Basic configuration of pfSense