So - after moving to a new (to us) house, I figured it was a good time to have a bit of a re-jig of my home lab. Mostly software changes this time round, but also moved to a new main work station. A lot smaller than most people here run, but very functional for me, and decent power consumption.
No pictures (yet), so apologies for the wall of text.
Hypervisor - hardware unchanged (i5 4460, 16GB Ram, bit of a mix of drives) - this now has Proxmox 4.0 installed, and am now using open v-switch.
Network - an upgrade here is in the pipeline - but at the moment, it consists of a pair of SLM2008 Linksys switches (about to go to a 24 port switch), supported by a pfSense VM. Moving to fiber internet this weekend, and will move to vyos at the same time, to learn something different. This has VPN links to Azure, where I have a couple of VM's that I spin up as required, and to a friends house, that will be taking backups (using my old desktop most likely).
This lives in a small (~10U) wall mount network cabinet, that also houses AV receiver, POE injectors, and a couple of Raspberry Pis.
Desktop - previously this was an AMD Phenom 1055t, with 8GB ram - but after spotting a decent (in my eyes) price on a IBM X3500 M4 a couple of weeks a back on a local auction site ($375 NZD) I snapped it up. Its running an E5 2620, with 32GB ram. Slightly noisier than ideal for a desktop, but still very workable - but also gives me a fair bit more VM capacity when needed. This is linked to the other box via a 10GB link as well (mellanox connectx 2 cards in each PC).
No pictures (yet), so apologies for the wall of text.
Hypervisor - hardware unchanged (i5 4460, 16GB Ram, bit of a mix of drives) - this now has Proxmox 4.0 installed, and am now using open v-switch.
Network - an upgrade here is in the pipeline - but at the moment, it consists of a pair of SLM2008 Linksys switches (about to go to a 24 port switch), supported by a pfSense VM. Moving to fiber internet this weekend, and will move to vyos at the same time, to learn something different. This has VPN links to Azure, where I have a couple of VM's that I spin up as required, and to a friends house, that will be taking backups (using my old desktop most likely).
This lives in a small (~10U) wall mount network cabinet, that also houses AV receiver, POE injectors, and a couple of Raspberry Pis.
Desktop - previously this was an AMD Phenom 1055t, with 8GB ram - but after spotting a decent (in my eyes) price on a IBM X3500 M4 a couple of weeks a back on a local auction site ($375 NZD) I snapped it up. Its running an E5 2620, with 32GB ram. Slightly noisier than ideal for a desktop, but still very workable - but also gives me a fair bit more VM capacity when needed. This is linked to the other box via a 10GB link as well (mellanox connectx 2 cards in each PC).
