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I diagrammed out my home lab/home server setup, mostly to keep a complete overview of how everything connects. I didn't want to get bogged down in aesthetics around colour scheme, or layout -- as you can no doubt tell. After a while diagramming it started to feel like a meme where I was trying to convey some crazy conspiracy theory on a wall of pinned paperwork and connecting threads. I think I am done documenting everything. But now I am wondering how obsessive I should be about detailing every little thing and VLANs and IP assignments. I don't really care if it looks like a dog's dinner, I really just care about "okay, where does this wire go to?" Is that the right approach?

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[-] Oekowesen@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I’m curious about what program that is and if its free

[-] Ready-Ad-3361@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

When you have weekly change control meetings

[-] CeeMX@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Home Lab is a lab environment to test out stuff and, rebuild things to test out something else.

Homeserver would be something more longlived.

Home Datacenter when you have more compute and storage in your basement than your whole town combined.

[-] Apart_Ad_5993@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

It stops becoming a "homelab" when it's impacting your family.

My entire "homelab" is contained in one box- if something fails on it, no one cares- it won't impact anyone. My home network consists of a simple mesh network.

This is something I don't think a lot of people consider. If you're the one that set this up, and you expire tomorrow, do you really want the burden of figuring this out on your spouse/partner/kids???

[-] KlanxChile@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

When you can format it, to try something new.

If you can't?... It became production

[-] Rtas_Vadum@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Diagrams are one thing, but traces are another. Have you thought about using something like Rack space or Netbox to create a source of detailed truth and document device inventory, their ports, and the connections between everything?

[-] lusid1@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

When your wife calls you if something isn't working. If there's a family facing service it's no longer a home lab, its home prod.

[-] certTaker@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

If you can't power it off without losing services or data then it's not a lab. Don't get confused by this sub where people call their home infrastructures "lab".

[-] Unfair-Plastic-4290@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

When it starts to carry any level of production workload from an outside network :)

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