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 – Intel I350 Gigabit network adapters
      • 2 x LAN connections, teamed with VLAN trunking (802.1q)
    • 2 x 10GbE – Intel X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T network adapters
      • 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)
    • WD 500GB Blue SN550 M.2 NVMe SSD (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

• VMware vSphere 7.0 U1
• VMware vSAN 7.0 U1