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Below is an overview of my self-hosted homelab rack build.

Front and rear layout of the rack build.

✨ Highlights

• 🔌 Structured cabling and tidy airflow
• 📦 Multi-node compute for services and experiments
• ⚡ Dedicated power distribution and monitoring

Rack Inventory

🖥️ Compute

• 3 × Dell Optiplex 3080 Micro (i5-10500T, 32GB RAM, 512GB NVMe SSD)
• 2 × Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB RAM, 32GB microSD)

🌐 Networking & Patching

• 1 × 16‑port PoE switch
• 1 × Rackmate 12‑port patch panel

🔧 Rack & Cable Management

• 1 × 8U Rackmate enclosure
• 1 × 1U cable management panel
• 1 × cable brush panel
• 1 × blank 1U panel
• 2 × 1U ventilated blank panels

⚡ Power

• 2 × 3‑plug PDU power strips