VMware homelab build of materials and configuration

William Lam has started a great initiative. William asked (link ) everyone who owns a homelab to share there build of materials (BOM) and configuration so the vCommunity can benefit and learn from. I have a simple homelab configuration, the materials I used and configuration are listed below:

Internet

Cable modem in bridge mode with 250 Mbit/s down and 25 Mbit/s upload.

Router

Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite 3-Port router

Access Point

Ubiquiti UniFi AP AC PRO

Layer 2 switches

2 x HP ProCurve 1810G (8 x 1GbE) manageable switches.

Compute

Shuttle SH370R6 Plus and a Shuttle SH370R8 Plus. Each barebone has:

• 500 W Plus Silver PSU
• Intel Core i7 8700 with 6 cores and 12 threads
• 64 GB memory
• Samsung 970 EVO 1 TB m.2
• Kingston datatraveler 100 G3 32 GB USB disk
• 2 x 1 GbE Network cards

Network Attached Storage (NAS)

QNAP TS-251+ NAS with two Western Digital (WD) Red 8 TB disk in a RAID-1 configuration.

Software

• VMware vSphere (ESXi, vCenter)
• VMware vSAN
• VMware Horizon
• VMware NSX-V and NSX-T
• vRealize products
• IoT stuff

Build of materials (BOM)

An overview of all the submitted community homelabs can be found here, link.