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]
You can place an image of the physical and logical distribution.
Updated as per request