Low Power Home Server using automated shutdowns to reduce electricity

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: https://github.com/brandonleegit/LabPower Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrxcWtpd1IGHG9RbD_9380A?sub_confirmation=1 My blog: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com _____________________________________________________ Social Media: https://twitter.com/vspinmaster LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-lee-vht/ Github: https://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: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2020/07/supermicro-vmware-home-lab-automatic-power-on-and-power-off/ Nested virtualization home lab: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2020/09/nested-esxi-lab-build-networking-and-hardware/ Supermicro home lab: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2020/06/supermicro-vmware-home-lab/