Project 01: Home Lab

Build a quiet, energy efficient, and high performance home computing lab for virtualization, cloud and container platforms, and automation testing.

Start Date: February 2019

Minimum Requirements:

* 2 compute nodes (hypervisors), multi-core, lots of memory

* Networked storage

* High bandwidth network

Resulting Lab Environment:

* (2) Red Hat Virtualization 4.2 compute nodes
– (2) SuperMicro E300-8D servers
– 128GB DDR4 2133 ECC Registered memory per server
– (1) Samsung 970 EVO Plus 250GB NVMe SSD drive per server

* (1) Synology DS1618+ NAS
– Dual-port 10 Gigabit SFP+ Adapter add-on
– (3) Samsung 480GB SATA SSD drives

* 10 Gigabit storage network via Mikrotik CRS-305 router/switch

* 1 Gbps Ethernet lab network via Cisco SG300-10

* CyberPower 900W Intelligent LCD UPS

Initial Completion Date: May 2019