Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
With skyrocketing energy prices across the world, many may struggle with the idea of running a home lab with the power requirements. However, in our video, we are going to show a simple trick to drastically cut the power consumption of your home server. Using out of band management and automation, we can run our home server like a cloud environment and have things powered off when not using them to save on costs.
Clone the code repo for the scripts in the video here:
github.com/brandonleegit/LabPower
Subscribe to the channel: youtube.com/channel/UCrxcWtpd1IGHG9RbD_9380A?sub_confirmation=1
My blog:
virtualizationhowto.com
_____________________________________________________
Social Media:
twitter.com/vspinmaster
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/in/brandon-lee-vht
Github:
github.com/brandonleegit
Introduction - 0:00
Describing the situation of inefficiency running a home lab - 0:48
Looking at auto shutdown functionality in the cloud - 1:37
Describing using out of band management and automation to control power state - 1:59
Looking at Supermicro's out of band management for IPMI - 2:49
Looking at the Supermicro command line tool to interact with IPMI - 3:14
Coordinating shutting down or suspending VMs and shutting down physical host - 3:40
Looking at the script for shutting down or suspending VMs and then powering down server - 4:07
Describing the next steps - 5:24
Running the script and testing the results of suspending VMs and powering down host - 5:34
Describing the timing of the loop and how it moves from VM to physical host - 6:08
Time lapse of the script running - 6:26
Showing the command to shutdown the Supermicro server runs and server is powered down - 6:41
Looking at the reverse process script to power up the lab server - 6:58
Describing the sleep time in the script to allow the host to power on, boot, and connect to vCenter - 7:36
Waiting a few seconds between each power on of a virtual machines - 8:13
Testing the power up script to start the physical host and start the VMs - 8:52
Talking about schduling your scripts to power down and power up your home lab servers and VMs - 9:38
Wrapping up on lowering your power costs for home servers and home labs - 10:10
Read my written write up of this process here:
virtualizationhowto.com/2020/07/supermicro-vmware-home-lab-automatic-power-on-and-power-off
Nested virtualization home lab:
virtualizationhowto.com/2020/09/nested-esxi-lab-build-networking-and-hardware
Supermicro home lab:
virtualizationhowto.com/2020/06/supermicro-vmware-home-lab
With skyrocketing energy prices across the world, many may struggle with the idea of running a home lab with the power requirements. However, in our video, we are going to show a simple trick to drastically cut the power consumption of your home server. Using out of band management and automation, we can run our home server like a cloud environment and have things powered off when not using them to save on costs.
Clone the code repo for the scripts in the video here:
github.com/brandonleegit/LabPower
Subscribe to the channel: youtube.com/channel/UCrxcWtpd1IGHG9RbD_9380A?sub_confirmation=1
My blog:
virtualizationhowto.com
_____________________________________________________
Social Media:
twitter.com/vspinmaster
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/in/brandon-lee-vht
Github:
github.com/brandonleegit
Introduction - 0:00
Describing the situation of inefficiency running a home lab - 0:48
Looking at auto shutdown functionality in the cloud - 1:37
Describing using out of band management and automation to control power state - 1:59
Looking at Supermicro's out of band management for IPMI - 2:49
Looking at the Supermicro command line tool to interact with IPMI - 3:14
Coordinating shutting down or suspending VMs and shutting down physical host - 3:40
Looking at the script for shutting down or suspending VMs and then powering down server - 4:07
Describing the next steps - 5:24
Running the script and testing the results of suspending VMs and powering down host - 5:34
Describing the timing of the loop and how it moves from VM to physical host - 6:08
Time lapse of the script running - 6:26
Showing the command to shutdown the Supermicro server runs and server is powered down - 6:41
Looking at the reverse process script to power up the lab server - 6:58
Describing the sleep time in the script to allow the host to power on, boot, and connect to vCenter - 7:36
Waiting a few seconds between each power on of a virtual machines - 8:13
Testing the power up script to start the physical host and start the VMs - 8:52
Talking about schduling your scripts to power down and power up your home lab servers and VMs - 9:38
Wrapping up on lowering your power costs for home servers and home labs - 10:10
Read my written write up of this process here:
virtualizationhowto.com/2020/07/supermicro-vmware-home-lab-automatic-power-on-and-power-off
Nested virtualization home lab:
virtualizationhowto.com/2020/09/nested-esxi-lab-build-networking-and-hardware
Supermicro home lab:
virtualizationhowto.com/2020/06/supermicro-vmware-home-lab
