My Home Lab
My home lab has been a great part of my learning path, career development, and of course blogging! My current build of materials for the latest iteration of the home lab is as follows:
2024 Home Lab
Hosts
Minicluster
- (2) Minisforum MS-01 Mini PCs – (2) node traditional vSphere Cluster
- Intel Core i9-13900H processor 14 cores, 20 threads
- 478.7 GB of system memory, comprised of:
- 96 GB of DDR5 DRAM
- 400% NVMe Memory tiering
- (2) 10 GbE SFP+ uplinks
- (1) Terramaster F8 SSD Plus NVMe NAS
- 9.04 TB of storage in vSphere
- 10 GbE uplink
Dev cluster
- (1) GMKtek K10 with AMD Ryzen 7 5800U processor
- 64 GB of DDR-4 RAM
2023 Home Lab
Hosts
- (3) Supermicro SYS-5028D-TN4T Servers – 3 node vSAN cluster
- Intel Xeon processor D-1541 8-Core, SoC (System-on-Chip)
- 128 GB RAM
- All flash vSAN Datastore – Backed by (3) Samsung 970 Pro Plus NVMe 1GB drives
- 5.46 TB Capacity
- (1) Supermicro SYS-5028D-TN4T – Proxmox 8.1 host
- Intel Xeon processor D-1541 8-Core, SoC (System-on-Chip)
- 128 GB RAM
- (2) NVMe-backed datastores in datastore cluster
- (2) Traditional spinning disk datastores for other testing, etc
- (1) SYS-E301-9D-8CN8TP
- (1) SYS-E300-9D-8CN8TP
Networking
- (1) Unifi 48-port 2.5 GbE switch for core
(1) Cisco SG350-28 port switch for core- (1) Ubiquiti XG-16 – 10 gig TOR switch for virtualization hosts
- (1) Cisco SG300-20 port switch for DR
(1) Netgear X708T – 10 gig switch for vSAN, vMotion, and NIOC aggregated links- (1) Palo Alto PA440 Firewall
- Extreme Networks x440-G2 16 port switch
Rack and Power
- SysRacks 27U Rack – My post about the rack installation here
- (2) CyberPower PR1500LCDRTXL2U UPS
Take a look at the rack lighting below for some RGB.
