I have been contemplating what changes need to be made to the rack and other components

 Right now I need to get the RPi Cluster Box onto the shelf.  I need to remove the WAP that I have hooked to my patch panel on my shelf.  By doing this I will free up some space on the shelf so that the equipment can fit.  

I also need to determine whether I should add the Edgerouter 12p to the mix.  I found out that I should be able to setup some of the ports on the 12p to act like a generic unmanaged switch with no router functions.  I will believe it when I see it however.  I am also not sure of how hot the 12p will get sitting on the shelf. It would make things a lot easier though.

So my immediate concern is to keep the SW116 on the shelf, preferably under the RPi Cluster and work on configuring the 12p later.  This should be a workable solution.  I have already started to determine which RPis will fit into the rack unit that I moved EXP0 through EXP3 from and become my new xPod elements.

Moved the xPod connections back to my main switch

After thinking about it for a while, I was convinced that I needed to add the other Edgerouter-12p that I have which has a POE capability.  In order to do that, I will need to remove the 8 port switch and 2 ER-X routers which are on the shelf that I need for the ER-12p.  So that means that I will need to rearrange the xPod RPis to connect to the main switch and disconnect the 8 port switch and 2 ER-X routers.

Update: completed

I have now moved the Experiment Pod to my HomeLab rack

 I decided to drop my participation in the community sub-committee and focus on other things.  In so doing, I have moved the Experiment Pod to the HomeLab rack.  I decided to change out the rack and put the entire Experiment Pod panel into the rack as well as an Edgerouter-X to give the ExPod vlan a dhcp source and isolate it from the rest of the network.  The unmanaged 8 port switch is there as well to connect to each of the ExPod RPis.

In addition, I have added a managed switch (GS108Tv3) to offload the number of connections to the key managed switch outside of the HomeLab rack.

I have re-arranged the HomeLab rack to allow for four different systems

 I decided to change out the HomeLab rack and concentrate on four sub-systems: (1) Experiment Pod; (2) Proxmox; (3) Edgerouter-12/M4100-26g; and (4) Monitor sub-system.  Each one of these sub-systems can now be independently booted up and used.

I added a GS108Tv3 managed switch to the top of the rack so that I could change out the cables going from the HomeLab rack to only need one connection to the external GS108Tv2 switch behind the rack.  This frees up some of the ports on that switch to be used for experiments on the table.  The ExPod is now behind an Edgerouter-X connected to that top switch, with all components able to be turned off at the same time from a single switch on the power switch panel.  The Proxmox server is also connected to that top switch for all of its external ports and is powered through a single switch on the power switch panel.  The Edgerouter-12/M4100-26g combination is powered down from a single switch on the same power switch panel; external connections go through the top switch.  The monitor sub-system is also turned on and off through a single switch on the power switch panel and is behind an Edgerouter-X connected to the top switch.

I also added an RGB led lighting on the sides of the HomeLab rack.

Issue: the vlans for server admin and servers still require the Edgerouter-12 to be running since the DHCP servers are on that device.  This will need to be dealt with int the future.