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proxfold — Dell PowerEdge R430

Proxmox VE hypervisor host. Owns the ZFS media storage pool and acts as the NFS server for the rest of the lab.

Hardware

Property Value
Server Dell PowerEdge R430 (1U, dual-PSU 550 W)
Hypervisor Proxmox VE 9.1.9 (Debian trixie, kernel 6.14.11-6-pve, ZFS 2.4.1 userland / 2.3.4 kmod)
Hostname proxfold
IP 192.168.1.250
CPU 1× Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 (14C/28T, 120 W TDP, SR2N7) — second socket empty pending Phase 4B
RAM 6× 8 GB DDR4-2400 ECC RDIMM = 48 GB total — replaced with 12× 16 GB / 192 GB in Phase 4B
Fans 5 of 6 bays populated (Fan1–Fan5); Fan6 empty, slated for install during Phase 4B
Boot drive ZFS RAID1 mirror (rpool, 888G usable) across Samsung SM843T 960GB + Intel DC S4500 960GB — swapped in on 2026-04-22 per the Boot Drive Swap runbook
ZFS drives 6× Samsung PM1633a 3.84TB SAS SSD (front bays; expanded from 4-wide to 6-wide RAIDZ1 on 2026-04-20)
GPU Nvidia T400 4GB (Turing NVENC, ~30 W slot-powered) — driver 550.163.01 via DKMS, passed through to Plex CT
iDRAC Present (exposes sdf as IDSDM virtual USB — ignore)
Network 4× Gigabit (pinned as nic0nic3 via systemd .link files; nic0 bridged to vmbr0, others unused)
UPS CyberPower PR1500ERT2U (1500VA/1500W, 2U) — USB-monitored via NUT on host, see UPS

Guests

ID Type Hostname IP Purpose
CT 100 LXC (privileged) plex 192.168.1.230 Plex Media Server
VM 101 VM arrstack 192.168.1.252 Docker host for arr stack
CT 104 LXC (unprivileged) control 192.168.1.245 Ansible control node
CT 105 LXC (privileged) pbs 192.168.1.246 Proxmox Backup Server (Phase 5A)
CT 106 LXC (unprivileged) beszel 192.168.1.247 Beszel monitoring hub (Phase 5B)
CT 107 LXC (unprivileged) edge 192.168.1.244 Caddy reverse proxy (Phase 5D)
VM 108 VM n8n 192.168.1.248 Docker host for n8n + Hawser (Phase 5C)
CT 109 LXC (unprivileged) forgejo 192.168.1.249 Self-hosted git, GitHub-mirrored (Phase 6A)
VM 111 VM matrix 192.168.1.243 Docker host for Matrix homeserver stack (Phase 6E)
CT 201 LXC (unprivileged) vintage 192.168.1.235 Vintage Story dedicated server (side-project)