SouthEast Linux Fest 2024

Adventures in Homelabing
06-07, 17:00–17:50 (EST5EDT), Rocky Linux (BallroomB)

Do you need a rack or big iron or can you do home lab'ing with small board computers. Dicuss will be the pros and cons of both.


What is a home lab, come and join the adventure. As we discuss the pro and con of running a home lab. The problem of heat, hardware failures, and success when it works right. Can someone switch from BigIron ( Racked Servers ) to SBC ( Small Board Computers ). Which is better? Can an Arm base lab do the same as X86 lab. Or should both be scrap and go to the cloud.

Worked in the IT field now for 29 years, haa been doing home lab's for the past 13 years. Working for as a Section Lead Linux Servers. He has over 27 years a Linux Engineer. His true love openSUSE which he's been an member of since 2008.