Here is my VMware Home Lab. People have been asking me to write about what I use in my VMware home lab that I use for a while. Finally one Saturday night, I have had the chance. Lets start off and talk about the physical hardware in my lab. 1 x HP ML115 G5 – Quad Core AMD Opteron 8GB RAM 2 x 256GB HD – RAID 1 2GB USB 2 x 1GB NIC 1 x 1GB On-board NIC 2 x HP Microserver N54L – 2.2Ghz 16GB RAM 4 x 256GB HD – RAID 5 2GB USB 2 x 1GB NIC 1 x 1GB On-board NIC 1 x Iomega PX4 2 x 1GB NIC 4 x 2TB HD – RAID 10 1 x Buffalo Linkstation Duo 2 x 500GB HD – Raid 1 2 x Netgear Prosafe GS108 1GB Switches The hosts are configured in the following way: The HP ML115 is my management host, which runs all the standard infrastructure VMs, for example, Active Directory, DNS, vCenter, Sophos UTM (Routing and Firewall) etc. The HP Microservers run all my non management virtual workloads in a vSphere cluster. I also run 2 x nested ESXi VMs on these hosts. The
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