There is a good chance that if you use Proxmox, you've heard of the fantastic collection of community scripts that are available to make your life easier when it comes to administering your node(s).

The Ruckus icx7150, namely the icx7150-24p makes for a fantastic homelab network switch in my opinion. It has 24x1gb poe ethernet ports combined with 4xSFP+ 10gb ports and can operate in a silent 'fanless' mode (albeit at a reduced 150w of poe power, as opposed to 370w with fans enabled).

When you're knee deep into solving a problem in your homelab, or you're simply disillusioned with everything - give this a read..

"This memo documents the fundamental truths of networking for the Internet community. This memo does not specify a standard, except in the sense that all standards must implicitly follow the fundamental truths."

I contribute to the European NTP Pool project, and if it's of any use you can find my stratum 2 NTP server at hubble.aphos.net.