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