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Come have a look around the lab

The HPs do the everyday work. The Threadripper has two RTX 3090s. The shed talks to radios over a Wi-Fi bridge. TrueNAS holds the big files and backups, and a Pi runs Omni and DNS. Click a machine to see what is inside it, or explore the private, public and shed network paths below.

October 15 full inventory covers all seven hosts, VM allocations, physical disks, Talos mounts and storage accounting. The explorer below uses that refreshed snapshot. Performance measurements retain their September 20 and October 11 dates.

The explorer has not been refreshed since then: it still shows the retired Dell OptiPlex and not the two bare-metal minis. For the current machine list and load, read the October 21 fleet inventory. For disks, read the disk map.

The interactive inventory is loading. The full written inventory is also available.

Findings — October 15

  • Dell’s dell-ssd-vmstore was inactive and its physical T-FORCE drive was absent. Talos still reported the mount. These observations do not establish successful disk I/O.
  • SFF’s control plane uses the Intel S3610. Its spare PNY SSD has no volume group.
  • The GPU host has two RTX 3090s and separate system, model-cache, enterprise and bulk-storage paths.
  • All four NAS pools reported ONLINE. The local replication task still had no schedule and a May 2025 completion.

The full inventory records the evidence and limits. Historical performance results remain in the fleet assessment and etcd measurements.

What this page knows

The hardware, VM, node, pod placement and claim inventory was collected on October 15, 2026, through read-only SSH, Kubernetes and Talos APIs. This is not a live monitoring screen. Queries ran separately, so the data is not an atomic snapshot. Network diagrams retain their documented design; router, bridge, DNS and HTTP paths were not tested.

The “what if” view explains dependencies. It does not switch machines off or prove recovery time. Historical benchmarks retain their own dates and paths.

Physical-drive sizes use decimal GB/TB. VM disks and RAM use GiB/MiB. Disk bars compare capacity within a host; they do not claim to show used space. NAS pool bars show the recorded ZFS pool allocation, which differs from the dashboard's usable-dataset accounting. Device names identify the inspected layout and can change after reconnecting hardware.

The complete sanitized page inventory is downloadable inside the explorer. Its source is lab-inventory-data.js; it contains no disk serial numbers, credentials or raw diagnostic dumps. Update that snapshot and its date together after hardware moves; runtimeVersionsCheckedAt records the separate node-version check. Keep measured state separate from suggestions, and check the page at desktop and phone widths before publishing.