Home Lab | Tim Carman

This page provides specifications and configuration of my current home lab setup.

Hardware

Server x 2
- Case – Thermaltake Suppressor F1 Case
- Motherboard – SuperMicro X10SDV-6C+-TLN4F
- CPU – Intel Xeon D-1528 6-core SoC
- RAM – Supermicro 32GB DDR4 PC4-19200 (2400MHz) 288p RDIMM x 2 (64GB total per host)
- Network
  - IPMI
    - 1 x LAN connection for out of band management
  - 2 x 1GbE
    - 2 x LAN connections, teamed with VLAN trunking (802.1q)
  - 2 x 10GbE
    - 1 x Direct connection between hosts for vSAN traffic
    - 1 x Direct connection between hosts for vMotion traffic
- Storage
  - 64GB SanDisk UltraFit USB 3.0 (ESXi boot)
  - 960GB Micron 5100 ECO 3D eTLC SATA 6Gb/s M.2 2280 SSD (vSAN Capacity Tier)
  - 400GB HPE 6G SATA WI-3 LFF SCC SSD (vSAN Cache Tier)
- Power & Cooling
  - Corsair CX 450M Power Supply
  - Noctua NF-A8 PWM 80mm case fan x 2
- Additional Hardware
  - USB 3 to USB 2 header cable to provide USB connectivity on front case ports
External Storage
- Synology DS916+8 4-bay NAS
  - Seagate 3TB HDDs x 4
- NFS storage connectivity to VMware ESXi hosts
Network
- Cisco SG300-28 28-Port Gigabit Managed Switch (Lab switch)
- Cisco SG200-26P 26-Port Gigabit PoE Smart Switch (Core switch)
- Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X
UPS
- CyberPower Sinewave PFC LCD 1500VA UPS

Software