Home lab hardware for CCIE lab

Thanks for replying 

i will research about 

May i ask that mini pc attached Intel i913000h 

64 RAM ddr5 

What do think ?

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@tariqops This looks like really great hardware. Keep in mind though the i9 will not be very power efficient. However, you may not be wanting to run a lab 24x7 and only spin it up when needed. Also, I didn't see whether the LAN adapters are Realtek or Intel based. If Intel it should be able to run VMware vSphere. If Realtek you can run Proxmox. Another option for your lab is to run something like VMware Workstation on top of Windows and have virtual machines running there if you want to make this a multi-purpose box and not a dedicated server.

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I hope you’re doing good 

May i ask about that hardware? 

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@tariqops definitely agree with @malcolm-r. I would go for a mini PC today if I were starting off building a little lab to run some virtualized resources, including VMs and containers. I think the other option you posted above (the mini PC) would probably work better for what you would want to do.