So the first stop on this journey is to talk about the hardware and software components that make up my HomeLab. These were not all acquired overnight, but it has taken a while to try and figure out how it’s all going to fit together. I’m still not entirely fixed on this setup and it will evolve over time. I’ll update this post as it changes.
Hardware
- Dell PowerEdge R730
- 2 Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 (12C / 24T)
- 256GB RAM
- 17TB RAID 5 Direct-Attached Storage
- Intel 10th Gen NUC
- Intel Core i5-10210U CPU (4C / 8T)
- 64GB RAM
- 1TB Samsung 970 EVO M.2 NVMe
- 2 USB 1GbE Network Adapters
- 1 QNAP QNA-T310G1S Thunderbolt 3 to 10GbE Adaptor, Single-Port Thunderbolt 3 to Single-Port 10GbE SFP+
- Ubiquity UniFi Dream Machine Pro
- Ubiquity UniFi Switch 16 XG
- Ubiquity UniFi Switch PRO 24 PoE
- Ubiquity EdgeRouter 4
Core Software
- VMware ESXi Enterprise Plus 7
- VMware vCenter Standard 7
- VMware NSX-T 3.0.1
- VMware Horizon Advanced Edition 2006
- VMware vRealize Operations 8.1
- VMware vRealize Log Insight 8.1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 & 8.2
- Ubuntu Server 20.0.1 LTS
- Docker Engine (Community)
- Kubernetes
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[…] today I wanted to give a little background on what my #Homelab setup is. I made an earlier posting about the software and hardware aspects. Today, I wanted to talk about the network layout and […]