This section covers the hardware spec of the Home LAB… Any Further changes including a LAB topology will be added going forward.

Home LAB replaced with Fujitsu R570-v2 Workstation

• 2 x Xeon x5660 (24 Cores)
• 72GB ECC RAM
• 2 x 1TB NVME [Run most of the VMs in the LAB]
• 2 x 250GB SSD [No use case for them atm. Probably Nested vSAN]
• 1TB SSD [For VEEAM Backup]
• 120GB SSD (For 6 x Nested ESXi)
• Quad 1gb NIC Card [1 mgmt traffic, 1 VM, 1 vmotion, 1 storage]
• 1 x HP Procurve 8 port switch [vMotion and iSCSi Storage Traffic]
• 1 x TP Link 8 port switch [Mangement Traffic and VM Traffic]
• Prod Cluster – ESXi 6.7u1 – each hosts has 8 NICs [2 mgmt, 2 VM, 2 Vmotion and 2 Storage – each is on active active teaming]
• Dev Cluster – ESXi 6.5u2 – each hosts has 8 NICs [2mgmt, 2 VM, 2 Vmotion and 2 Storage – each is on active standby teaming]