Here is an overview of the hardware I use for my home lab.
Server
Dell PowerEdge T110 II
Specifications
- PowerEdge T110 II Tower Chassis, Up to 4x 3.5″ Cabled HDDs
- Intel Xeon E3-1220 Processor (3.1GHz, 4C/4T, 8M Cache, 80W, Turbo)
- 32 GB LV UDIMM 1333MHz
- 250GB SATA 7.2k
- Broadcom NetXtreme II 5722 Single Port Gigabit Ethernet
- Broadcom NetXtreme II 5709 Dual Port 1GbE NIC with TOE
- Broadcom NetXtreme II 5709 Dual Port 1GbE NIC with TOE and iSCSI Offload
Storage
Iomega StorCenter px4-300d
Specifications
- Desktop form factor
- Intel Atom Dual Core CPU at 1.8GHz with 2GB RAM
- 4 x 3.5″ Hot swap 2TB Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723020BLA642
- RAID Levels: RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, and 5+1
- 2 x RJ45 10/100/1000Mbps (GbE) Ethernet ports. LAN standards: IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u
- 1 x USB 3.0 and 2 x USB 2.0 ports
- iSCSI LUNs – up to 256 LUNs
- Acoustic noise – 31 dBA maximum
Network
Cisco SG 300-10
Specifications
- 128 MB RAM
- 16 MB Flash
- Desktop, rack-mountable (1U)
- Fanless
- 8 x 10/100/1000 + 2 x combo Gigabit SFP
- Switching capacity: 20 Gbps
- Forwarding performance (64-byte packet size): 14.88 Mpps
- 4K Active VLANs
- Static IPv4 routing
- Jumbo Frame Support 10KB
- Layer 3 switching
- Layer 2 switching
- DHCP support
- BOOTP support
- VLAN support
- IGMP snooping
- Syslog support
- DoS attack prevention
- Port mirroring
- DiffServ support
- Weighted Round Robin (WRR) queuing
- Broadcast Storm Control
- IPv6 support
- Multicast Storm Control
- Unicast Storm Control
- Firmware upgradable
- Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) support
- Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) support
- Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) support
- Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) support
- Access Control List (ACL) support
- Quality of Service (QoS)
- External Power Adapter
Hi Marek,
May I know if there is any updated hardware for the Lab ?
I’d like to know if your lab hardware above is sufficient to run SRM or NSX.
Thanks.
Hi,
I didn’t do any upgrades on my lab. Everything is running on the hardware above.
Regarding SRM, absolutely. I run 2 sites with each site a DC, vCenter, 2 nested ESXi hosts and SRM server.
Not sure about NSX, didn’t test it yet but should be ok to run a basic installation. NSX Manager can be a bit more challenging as it requires 12 GB or RAM minimum.
Cheers!
Cool, many thanks for the sharing Marek.