Plan your rack
Lay out a 10" mini rack or a 19" rack before you buy anything. It's free, there's no sign up, and the link in your address bar saves the whole rack.
Most mini PCs, Macs, modems and small switches can't go in a rack on their own. When you add one, the planner puts it in a rack mount made to fit that exact device, from 3D Rack Mounts. Gear that already has rack ears goes straight in.
In a mount made for it
Rack-ready
Open
Tap an open slot to choose where the next item goes. Drag an item to move it (on a phone, press and hold first). Tap it to remove it.
Start with your rack size
Example builds
- UniFi homelab in a 9U 10 inch rack
- Proxmox mini PC cluster in an 8U 10 inch rack
- Mac mini, Mac Studio and DGX Spark in an 8U 10 inch rack
- Home network and smart home in a 6U 10 inch rack
- UniFi network closet in a 10U 19 inch rack
- Plex and media rack in a 10U 19 inch rack
- Proxmox homelab in a 12U 19 inch rack
- Mac mini cluster in a 12U 19 inch rack
Guides
- 10 inch or 19 inch rack?
- How to lay out a homelab rack
- What is a rack unit (U)?
- Putting gear without rack ears in a rack
Plan a specific rack
How it works
- Pick a rack. 10" mini racks (DeskPi, GeeekPi, Lab Rax and similar) or a standard 19" rack, at the height you have.
- Add your gear. Search a device to place it. Gear that already has rack ears, like UniFi and Netgear switches, Synology RackStations, UPS units and PDUs, is in the list too and goes in as rack-ready.
- See what's missing. Anything without ears shows as "needs a mount", with a mount you can buy for it.
- Share it. The link holds the whole layout, so a build can be posted, compared or finished later.