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 nic0–nic3 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) |