Need advise with a home lab

[vSerg]

What's your opinion with this vSphere home lab: 2 PowerEdge T110 II servers (Xeon 1230 v2 w/3 nics) from Dell with 16 or 32GB RAM from Newegg or Amazon (Dell RAM is to $$), managed gigabit switch(Cisco SG300), cheap intel i3 box with 3 or 4 drives running openfiler or Freenas for storage and a UPS, am I missing something? I don't want to build a white box and don't want a RAID controller (for now). Thanks for your advise. (I am studying for my VCP)

[a_p_ · Accepted solution]

Welcome to the Community,

if the purpose for this is studying, I wouldn't even spend much money on server hardware, but try to get a decent PC (e.g. I7 CPU, 16+GB RAM, HDD and SSD) and build a virtual lab with which you will have a much better flexibility in what you setup. Take a look at e.g. Building the Ultimate vSphere Lab to see whether this could be an option for you.

André

[nava_thulasi39]

Hi,

As it's already mentioned by a.p., if it's just for vcp study then you planned to spend lot of money for the home Lab.

[vSerg]

Thanks André, I need to replace my 4 year old laptop and I will buy me a decent machine (i7 w/16GB RAM)with all the money I'm going to save with your help.

Serg

[vSerg]

Thank you nava_thulasi39.