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

Take a look at the rack lighting below for some RGB.

Green lights front view
Green lights front view
Purple lights front view
Purple lights front view
Red lights front view
Red lights front view
Dark mode on with white lights
Dark mode on with white lights

Home-lab-resources
Home Lab Resources
Home-lab-datastores-and-VM-resources
Home lab datastores and VM resources

Recent cable management changes

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