My Home Lab

As I am working with different customers, I constantly test things for work in my home lab. On this page I will introduce you to my home lab. It all started a few years ago with VMware Workstation & Fusion and now I am running with a good configuration which suits all my requirements. When someone hears about my lab, they often ask what hardware is in the lab. I am putting this post together so I can point people here and say, “this is it.”

Compute

For computing resources are fulfilled by two Lenovo P920 ThinkStation and ThinkCentre M820z with below configuration.

2* Lenovo ThinkStation P920 Tower
2 x Intel® Xeon® Silver 4110 (2.1GHz / 8 cores) Processor
128GB DDR4 (16GB x 8) RAM
1TB 7200 RPM Internal HDD
1TB Internal SSD 
2* 1 Gbps Ethernet Port

and i run my infrastructure service like Active Directoy, DNS, NTP etc.. on Lenovo ThinkCentre M820z All-In-One Workstation with below configuration.

Lenovo ThinkCentre M820z All-In-One
Intel® Core™ i5-8400 (9M Cache, 2.80 GHz, 6 Cores) Processor
32GB (16x2) DDR4-2666 RAM
1TB Internal SSD
1 Gbps Ethernet Port

Storage

Storage requirements are provisioned from Synology DiskStation 920+

2* 2TB NAS Drives
2*1TB SATA Drives
2*400 GB Synology NVMe Cache
RAID 1
NFS Protocol
2* 1 Gbps Ethernet

Network

For network connectivity Cisco SG350-10P 10-Port Gigabit PoE Managed Switch is used

10* 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet Ports
Advanced Layer 2 (LAN Base) and Layer 3 (IP Base) support
10 x 1G copper plus 2 x 1G SFP Uplink

Server Rack

I am using 27u rack to house these equipment including servers, storage, switches, and routers.

Thanks, 😊

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