My HomeLab 2020

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Home Lab 2020

This is my HomeLab as of this post. I use this setup primarily for learning, with some aspects of the lab also used by the rest of my family (Plex, Backups, etc…). My career is in technology, so this is just an extension of what I do for a living, except for my own ideas.

Lately I have been using this to learn more about NSX-T and Micro Segmentation. I have used Log Insight combined with NSX-T Tags to micro segment a large portion of my home lab. I also have Vrealize Network Insight, as well as NSX Intelligence, which also helped with the segmentation, but the majority of it was done in Log Insight.

• Compute
  • 4x Intel Hades Canyon NUC NUC8I7HVK
    • 64GB Per NUC
    • 2xl on board 1GB adapters used for Management and VM Traffic
    • 2x Anker USB 3.0 Unibody Aluminum Gigabit Ethernet Adapter for NSX-T Overlay
    • 1x QNAP QNA-T310G1S Thunderbolt 3 to 10GbE Adaptor, Single-Port Thunderbolt 3 to Single-Port 10GbE SFP+ used for VMotion and VSAN traffic
    • VSAN Cache Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD 250GB – M.2 NVMe
    • VSAN Capacity Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD 500GB – M.2 NVMe
    • 4x 10G SFP+ DAC Cable
  • 2x HP DL380 G7 – These are used for maintenance on my NUC Cluster, and to run VMware Cloud Foundation nested.
    • 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5650 @ 2.67GHz 12 cores
    • 144GB ECC RAM
    • 1ea 32GB USB Drive for ESXi install
    • 1ea 800GB SSD for local storage
• Core Storage
  • Synology DS918+
    • 4ea 4tb Seagate IronWolf HDD RAID 10
    • 2ea Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD 500GB – M.2 NVMe for Read/Write Cache
  • VSAN Datastore from NUC’s – 1.5TB usable
• Core Network – Updated 3/2020 replacing Meraki with Ubiquiti Unifi.
  • ATT 1GB Fiber Service with ATT provided router configured in pass thru.
  • Unifi Dream Machine Pro
  • 1x Unifi Switch 16 POE Gen 2
  • 2x Unifi FlexHD AP’s
  • 1x Unifi nanoHD AP
  • 1x Ubiquiti US-24 Unifi Switch
  • 1x MikroTik 9-Port Desktop Switch, 1 Gigabit Ethernet Port, 8 SFP+ 10Gbps Ports
  • Actiontec Bonded MoCA 2.0 Ethernet to Coax Adapter ( To get to 2nd story of my house)
  • 2x Raspberry PI’s running PiHole with DOH
• Miscellaneous Gear
  • 2x CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD PFC Sinewave UPS System
• Software
  • Vsphere 6.7 U3b
  • NSX-T 2.5.1
    • NSX Intelligence
  • Vrealize Suite
    • Vrealize Operations Manager
    • Vrealuze Network Insight
    • Vrealize Log Insight
    • Vrealize Lifecycle Manager
    • Vrealize Identity Manager
  • Horizon Workspace One
  • VYOS for BGP Routing with VCF and other use cases
  • VMware Cloud Foundation 3.9.1 – Nested
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2019 – AD/DNS
  • Cohesity Virtual Platform for local and cloud backups