SnarfNet Homelab Architecture & Topology

Network VLAN Fabric

8 Zones

VLAN 1 LAN / Core

UDM-SE Gateway, Core Switches

14.44.4.0/25

VLAN 2 Management

APs, USP RPS, iDRAC, Switches

140.44.44.0/24

VLAN 20 Compute Fleet

K3s Aerodrome, Spaceport, Swarm

140.44.4.0/25

VLAN 3 Spacedock Lab

Harvester HCI Virtualization

140.44.1.0/24

VLAN 40 Storage SAN

SnarfNAS (DS416play), SN-NAS (RS810+)

14.10.10.0/25

VLAN 50 Smart Home

Home Assistant, NUT, Tempest

14.4.4.0/25

VLAN 60 HA Interconnect

Keepalived VIPs & Sync Heartbeats

140.4.4.0/25

VLAN 30 Media Clients

Smart TVs, Apple TVs, Streaming

192.168.1.0/25

Topology Key

Core Backbone

K3s Compute

Harvester HCI

Swarm Fleet

Cloudflare / Tunnel

High Availability

Public Internet

Primary WAN: 174.106.252.96

WAN 1: Fiber ONT

1 Gbps Symmetric

10G SFP+ to UDM-SE

WAN 2: 5G Backup

Cellular Standby

GbE RJ45 Failover

🛡️

UniFi Dream Machine Special Edition (UDM-SE)

Gateway VIP: 14.44.4.1 • UniFi OS v4.1 • WireGuard Server

10G SFP+ Backbone

⚡ Routing & QoS

• Inter-VLAN Wire-Speed L3
• Smart Queues & FQ-CoDel
• VLAN 20 Compute Priority

🔒 Edge Security

• Suricata IPS/IDS Level 5
• Deep Packet Inspection
• Strict LAN/IoT Isolation

🎯 Core Port Forwards

• 80/443 → 140.44.4.74 (NPM Host)
• 10051/52 → 140.44.4.51 (Zabbix)
• 8443/27015 → 14.4.4.15 (PC)

🔀

USW Enterprise Core Switches

2.5G PoE+ to APs, 10G SFP+ to Racks

📶

UniFi Wi-Fi 6 Enterprise Fleet

SSIDs: SnarfNet-IoT, SnarfNet-5G, Trusted

Edge Access & Ingress

Cloudflare Zero Trust cloudflared

Outbound-only secure tunnel routes *.snarfnet.net without opening inbound WAN router ports.

Tailscale Mesh VPN 100.64.0.0/10

Subnet routers provide direct wireguard access to all 8 VLANs from mobile devices.

Authentik Conditional MFA SSO & Auth

Client IP evaluation: Internal VLANs bypass MFA for frictionless use; external WAN enforces Passkeys/MFA.

🧠 AI Inference Pipeline

Tesla T4s + Hailo

1. Frontend Open WebUI (:8080)

↓

2. Reasoning vLLM DeepSeek-R1

↓

3. Execution Triton + Qdrant

Compute Clusters & Workload Fleet

All compute clusters operate on VLAN 20 (140.44.4.0/25) with dedicated VIPs and Longhorn block fabrics.

29 Physical Nodes 400+ Containers

Cluster A: Aerodrome

Rancher Local

10 Nodes • 3 Control Plane + 7 Workers • Debian 12 (arm64) • MetalLB: 140.44.4.28-39

40 CPU Cores

65.5 GiB RAM Total

ctl01-03: 140.44.4.11-13

wrk01-04: 140.44.4.21-24

wrk05-07: 140.44.4.25-27

Storage Type: Longhorn

Storage Total: 818 GiB

Active Workloads & VIPs

🐄 Rancher Management

aerodrome.snarfnet.net

:443

🔑 Authentik SSO Portal

authentik.snarfnet.net

VIP .29

📊 Grafana Telemetry

grafana.snarfnet.net

VIP .32

📈 Prometheus TSDB

39 Targets (cAdvisor + Nodes)

:9090

🟢 Uptime Kuma Probes

uptime.snarfnet.net (35 Mon.)

VIP .28

🦅 AWX Ansible Controller

awx.snarfnet.net

VIP .30

Cluster B: Spaceport

GitOps Core

10 Nodes • 4 Control Plane + 6 Workers • RPi 5 (arm64) • MetalLB: 140.44.4.57-65

40 CPU Cores

54.0 GiB RAM Total

ctl01-04: 140.44.4.41-44

wrk01-03: 140.44.4.51-53

wrk04-06: 140.44.4.54-56

Storage Type: Longhorn

Storage Total: 1.14 TiB

Active Workloads & VIPs

🐙 ArgoCD Reconciler

argo.snarfnet.net (15 Apps)

Node .51

🍵 Gitea Repositories

git.snarfnet.net

VIP .62

🏠 Homepage Dashboard

homepage.snarfnet.net

VIP .60

🛡️ Zabbix Core Server

zabbix.snarfnet.net (28 Hosts)

VIP .61

⚙️ Semaphore Ansible

semaphore.snarfnet.net

VIP .58

👨‍💻 Coder Dev Cloud

coder.snarfnet.net

VIP .63

Cluster C: Spacedock (Harvester HCI)

GPU Inference

4 Physical Nodes • AMD64 Server Architecture • Dedicated Tesla T4 AI Compute

224 CPU Cores

503 GiB RAM Total • 4x Tesla T4 GPUs

Node 01: 140.44.4.81

Node 02: 140.44.4.82

Node 03: 140.44.4.83

Node 04: 140.44.4.84

Active Workloads & Inference Services

🌾 Harvester HCI Console

harvester.spacedock.snarfnet.net

VLAN 3

🧠 vLLM DeepSeek-R1-14B

Reasoning Planner (.81)

:30805

💎 vLLM Gemma-4-12B

Coding Specialist (.82)

:30804

🤖 vLLM Qwen 2.5-7B

Instruction Following (.84)

:30800

🔱 Triton Inference Server

Decision Engine (.83)

:30803

⚡ Qdrant Vector Engine

Semantic Vector Store (.82)

:30633

Cluster D: Shipyard (Docker Swarm)

Swarm VIP: 140.44.4.70

5 RPi 5 Nodes • Keepalived VRRP VIP • Host-Mode Ingress • Portainer EE 2.45

20 CPU Cores

20.0 GiB RAM Total

Swm01: .71

Swm02: .72

Swm03: .73

NPM: .74

Swm05: .75

Active Workloads & Stacks

🚢 Portainer Enterprise

shipyard.snarfnet.net

:9443

🌐 NGINX Proxy Manager

Host Mode Ingress (.74)

:80/:443

🔔 Gotify Notifications

gotify.snarfnet.net

:8090

🧭 Heimdall Landing

portal.snarfnet.net

:85

💻 MeshCentral Remote

mesh.snarfnet.net

:8086

📦 Homebox Inventory

homebox.snarfnet.net

:3100

💾

Storage SAN & Distributed Volumes (VLAN 40)

14.10.10.0/25

SnarfNAS (Synology DS416play) 14.10.10.72

Synology DiskStation DS416play desktop appliance, primary NFS/SMB target, media libraries, Time Machine, and Hyper Backup replication.

Drives: 4 Drives

Total Storage: 16 TiB Total

SN-NAS (Synology RS810+) 14.10.10.71

Synology RackStation RS810+ 1U rackmount appliance, dedicated Btrfs backup pool, iSCSI targets, and Snapshot Replication.

Drives: 4 Drives

Total Storage: 37 TiB Total

Longhorn Spaceport Storage 140.44.4.41-56

Replicated distributed block storage across Spaceport workers backing Gitea, Semaphore, Jenkins, and Technitium DNS.

Drives: 10 Disks

Total Storage: 1.14 TiB Total

Longhorn Aerodrome Storage 140.44.4.11-27

Replicated low-latency distributed block storage backing Prometheus, Grafana, Authentik, AWX, and databases.

Drives: 7 Disks

Total Storage: 818 GiB Total

Harvester HCI Distributed Storage (Spacedock Cluster) 140.44.1.0/24 (VLAN 3)

Multi-node hypervisor storage fabric across 4 physical Harvester nodes backing VM virtual disks, container rootfs, and AI model inference storage.

Drives: 35 Disks (across 4 nodes)

Total Storage: 46.41 TiB Total (46.22 TiB avail)

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Smart Home & Edge AI Fabric (VLAN 50)

14.4.4.0/25

Home Assistant Yellow 14.4.4.20:8123

Primary smart home automation hub, Zigbee/Z-Wave networks, Matter, local voice processing.

Tempest Weather Station Direct HA Telemetry

Local UDP & cloud backyard weather station (Temp, Feels Like, Humidity, Wind Speed rounded to 0.1°).

NUT Master Daemon 14.4.4.44:3493

Network UPS Tools master daemon monitoring central battery units, broadcast shutdown signals.

Hailo-8 Edge NPU Node 140.44.4.7:8000

Dedicated Raspberry Pi 5 with 26 TOPS Hailo-8 AI acceleration running lightweight local LLMs.