Home Lab

calendarOct 7, 2023 · 1 min read  ·
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Why Home Lab

Like many, I started VMware homelab running inside VMware Workstation. So, the first hardware I purchased was a lenovo Thinkpad X1 Extreme. Instead of running vSphere on top of the hardware, in VMware Workstation i used nested Lab

My Portable Lab

Lenovo X1 Extreme Gen 2

  • Intel Core i7-9750H @2.60 GHz
  • 64GB DDR4 SDRAM
  • 2 * 1TB Sabrent rocket NVMe SSD
  • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 with Max-Q Design

The number of workloads and technologies I wanted to play around with outgrew, decided to invest in actual server. Recently I purchased a refurbished HPE DL 360 G9 from ebay.

Rack Server

HPE DL 360 G9

  • Intel Xeon E2683 v4 (16 Cores)- 2 processors
  • 256GB DDR4 RAM
  • 2* 480GB SSD
  • 1* 2TB PCIe NVMe SSD
  • 1* 512GB PCIe NVMe SSD

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Disclaimer:

1This is my personal blog and everything here is my own opinions and views.