HomeLab: The Idea

Moving on from conceptual decision; it is important that I create requirements and guidelines.

What do I want to achieve? I think that is the key question from this; as I believe all other questions stem from this.
The Home lab will be stationed in the home office; as such noise, temperature and size are going to be a significant factors in my decision when building & setting this up.

The next step to determine will my use for the home lab.
Requirements:

• Router running pfsense
• LAN for Main Internet Supply (1 Gbps Fiber)
• VLANs for Guest, Security, IOT (at different security levels) and Webserver
• OpenVPN Server to connect to LAN from outside
• Adblocking/DNS Blocking
• VPN setup for connecting to the internet privately and access off-region subscription services (PIA, ExpressVPN etc)
• Low Power
• Low Noise
• Switch
• At least 1 POE 1Gbps Port
• 24 1 Gbps Port
• SFP/RJ45?
• Future Expandability
• Low Power
• Low Noise
• NAS/SAN on Freenas
• 10–15TB Storage
• 64GB Ram
• Serve iSCSI Shares (for Proxmox VMs)
• Hourly/Daily/Monthly…