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As I am working with different customers, constantly testing things for work in my home lab. On this page I’ll 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 hear about my lab, they often ask what hardware is in the lab. I’m putting this post together so I can point people here and say, “this is it.”

Compute

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

• 2* Lenovo Think Station P920 Tower
• 2* Intel® Xeon® Silver 4110 (2.1GHz / 8 cores) Processor
• 2* 160 GB DDR4 (32GB x 4 + 16GB x 2) RAM
• 1* 256 GB Internal SSD
• 3* 1 TB Internal SSD
• 2* 1 Gbps Ethernet Port

• Lenovo ThinkCentre M820z All-In-One
• Intel® Core™ i5-8400 (9M Cache, 2.80 GHz, 6 Cores) Processor
• 32GB (16×2) DDR4-2666 RAM
• 1TB Internal SSD
• 1 Gbps Ethernet Port

Storage

Storage requirements are provisioned from Synology DiskStation DS920+

• 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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