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Node 1 — (Dell PowerEdge R730xd)

• CPU: 2× Intel Xeon E5-2697 v4 (18c/36t each — 36c/72t total) @ 2.30GHz
• RAM: 251GiB (16×16GB DIMMs, running at 2133 MT/s)
• GPU: Intel Arc A310 (passthrough) + Matrox G200eR2 (iDRAC)
• Storage controller: LSI MegaRAID SAS-3 3108 in HBA/passthrough mode
• Network: dual Intel X520 10G (one port active, vmbr0)
• Proxmox VE
• Pools:
  • Boot/root: sdf (SPCC 1.9TB SATA SSD), LVM-thin
  • lxcpool: Intel P4600 2TB NVMe (ZFS, ashift=12) — LXC root storage
  • lxcbackup: single Seagate 8TB (ZFS) — PBS datastore
  • media: 4× WD Ultrastar 18TB, raidz1 (36.3T usable, ~56% used)

Node 2— (custom rackmount case build)

• CPU: Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
• RAM: 64GB DDR5 SODIMM
• GPU: RTX 5060 Ti 16GB
• GPU Intel Arc B580 12GB
• Storage: 1TB NVMe (boot)
• Proxmox VE

Node 2 — (CWWK N305 Mini PC)

• CPU: Intel Core i3-N305 (8c/8t, no SMT)
• RAM: 15GiB
• Storage: local-lvm thin pool only (~141GB, ~14% used) — no ZFS
• Proxmox VE

theres a pi for pihole dns and the rest is unifi networking gear