Hi there, thanks for looking! New to the forums but been lurking around these parts for a long time. Patrick actually asked me to do a write up on these host but the last 2 years has been absolutely mental and I just never got around to doing it, which is a bit of a shame as I did have to do quite a lot of legwork to get all the items pulled together!
Looking to offload my Tiny Mini Micro 4x Lenovo P330 tiny based vSAN lab.
Each host comprises:
i7-8700t CPU
2x 32GB DIMMs
512GB NVMe storage
1TB Samsung 980 NVMe storage
HPE 560SFP+ dual port NIC
PSU
I also have 4x HDD headers with caddies to fit the Lenovo units.
Used as a vSphere 6.5/6.7/7.0 lab with no issues, everything runs super fast as you would expect and with a lovely tiny footprint! The hosts also support vPro so you can go remote management with something like Meshcommander which was brilliant for re-loading the base OS without having to hook any screens etc up to the hosts in addition to power management etc.
In addition to this I also have a Unifi US-16-XG switch and all SFP cables needed to get this all wired together. The switch is a board rev. 13 so none of the issues the older versions had being really picky with SFPs, the RJ45 ports being a bit dodge, or anything else.
Ideally i’d like this all to go as a single bundle, i’m asking for £2500 all in which is basically £550 per host and £300 for the switch in my mind. Price includes insured courier.
It’s a great setup and got me through a lot more learning than my lab at work which cost approximately 100x more!
Can post pics on request, any questions, let me know.
Looking to offload my Tiny Mini Micro 4x Lenovo P330 tiny based vSAN lab.
Each host comprises:
i7-8700t CPU
2x 32GB DIMMs
512GB NVMe storage
1TB Samsung 980 NVMe storage
HPE 560SFP+ dual port NIC
PSU
I also have 4x HDD headers with caddies to fit the Lenovo units.
Used as a vSphere 6.5/6.7/7.0 lab with no issues, everything runs super fast as you would expect and with a lovely tiny footprint! The hosts also support vPro so you can go remote management with something like Meshcommander which was brilliant for re-loading the base OS without having to hook any screens etc up to the hosts in addition to power management etc.
In addition to this I also have a Unifi US-16-XG switch and all SFP cables needed to get this all wired together. The switch is a board rev. 13 so none of the issues the older versions had being really picky with SFPs, the RJ45 ports being a bit dodge, or anything else.
Ideally i’d like this all to go as a single bundle, i’m asking for £2500 all in which is basically £550 per host and £300 for the switch in my mind. Price includes insured courier.
It’s a great setup and got me through a lot more learning than my lab at work which cost approximately 100x more!
Can post pics on request, any questions, let me know.
