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I have an Epyc 7452 (32 cores) on a Supermicro H12SSL-i with 128GB DDR4 3200 memory and ESXi 8.0U2 installed fine and joined vCenter installed as a VM in the default vSS management portgroup. I want to install whatever is required to simulate a SDDC and cloud infrastructure, including NSX and...

Downscaling my LAB, so have the following bits for sale. Quantity Item Pricing 1 nVidia Quadro M2000 4GB GDDR5 £100 1 nVidia Quadro K2200 4GB GDDR5 £50 2 Sold 2TB Intel P4510 U.2 NVME drives (used - not for chia mining - appx 40-45TB written on both) £300/ea/£550 for two All...

Hello all! I am researching storage options for 50-100TB of usable storage space for a genomic lab. Essentially, I am trying to get an understanding of best practices and cost to build such a server. Right now, I am in the early stages of investigating solutions, so I can understand the...

Thought I would see if anyone was interested in this lab setup before I go to eBay with it. HP/Compaq 22u rack Cisco 2970 - $75 3x Dell R610 II - $250/ea 2x X-series @ 2.8Ghz 96GB SAS6/i (non-RAID) iDRAC Enterprise 1x SMC 2U - $1,000 2x X-series @ 2.8Ghz 48GB On-board LSI is RAID w/ No JBOD...

Hi all, Trying to wrap my head around options for a home ESXi lab, which will be running mostly Windows VMs (6 - 10 VMs total, for stuff like SharePoint, Exhange, AD, other apps.). My hardware knowledge is pretty out-of-date, so I need a hand! My priorities are: running multiple...

I would like to finally build a home lab this year, and I have some thoughts and doubts, probably somebody can give me advice. I want to build a lab for tinkering, I don't have a right project in mind, but things such as KVM, Vmware, Xen,Proxmox,Openstack fit quite well. Being said that, here...