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.

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