I've had a little homelab for decades and I've been using Proxmox for many years now. I had a cluster, but I wanted to rebuild it so I migrated everything to a standalone server and then everything paused there. I want to pick up on that project, but this time I want to document it along the way.
Considerations
My primary considerations are hardware management. Most of my hardware is about a decade old and very heterogeneous. It is consumer-quality hardware and we will definitely not be following best practices on anything.
Root partitions
We're going to be using mirrored BTRFS instead of ZFS. Additionally, we're going to be using a single drive for root and Ceph storage, which is definitely not recommended.
Heat
I am going to tune the processors to be low-power.
However, I want to use them in a small heating cluster by integrating mining XMR and/or computing BOINC projects with Home Assistant's Generic Thermostat card for wintertime.
