Networking

Information about my home networking.
The bulk of the setup sits inside a box furniture within a half-width 6U cabinet on one side, a compact DIY server and a UPS on the other side.
This whole contraption basically manages everything "network" related at home.

The half-width 6U cabinet composition is, from top to bottom:

The DIY server composition is:

The whole cabinet and server are protected against power surges and power loss by an Eaton Ellipse PRO 1600 UPS.
The total consumption is around 120W for all the network, server and CCTV equipment. Battery life around 1h30 to 2h.

An external USB enclosure ICY BOX IB-3805-C31 with four 18TB Seagate EXOS x18 hard drives connected to a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB is used as backup target for the main ZFS data-pool.

That backup system is located in the office room, and is also protected against power surges and power loss by an Eaton Ellipse PRO 1200 UPS with my main PC.

The backup system is only powered-on during backup, and is offline otherwise.

Software-wise, the server runs TrueNAS Scale on bare metal, with the following arrangement for storage space:

It also runs a virtual machine:

And runs a few Docker Applications such as:

The motherboard has enough PCIe lines to get sufficient bandwidth for every added cards: Google dual Coral TPU (one lane each), Avago SAS3008 (four lanes) and Kingston Data Center DC1000B 480GB NVMe (4 lanes).

The Avago SAS3008 card manage the two Kingston Data Center DC600M 1.92TB SSDs and the six Seagate Exos X18 18TB HDDs with its native eight SATA  6Gb/s connexions.
To be noted that the motherboard also has an embedded JMicron JMB585 SATA controller that is purposefully not used to avoid reliabilities issues.

A Cisco CBW140AC-E Wifi AP is located in the garage, on top of the furniture that contains the cabinet.

A Cisco CBW145AC-E Wifi AP is wall-mounted on the second floor on the opposite side of the house.

A second smart switch Cisco CBS250-8T-D is located in the office room, in order to connect both PCs , the Printer and a Raspberry PI based backup machine to the Network with the only RJ45 available there.

Both Wifi AP, both smart switch Cisco CBS250-8T-D, and the BliKVM v4 are powered through PoE from the main smart switch Cisco CBS250-8PP-D.

The six 5MP Chinese cameras (based on Xiongmai IVG-85HG50PYA-S boards with Sony IMX335 sensor) are also powered through PoE from the decated CCTV smart switch Cisco CBS250-8PP-D.

All cameras have 940nm IR illumination for night vision, the outdoor ones have separate IR projectors.