In October 2020, after attempting a VMware Training Course from my former Colleague, Marc Huppert (VCDX#181), my old Homelab Version 1.0 needed an urgent update, as I wanted to implement more Products from the VMware Portfolio to deepen my knowledge of vRealize Suite and NSX-T.
So I decided to go more enterprise-like with my homelab infrastructure. I went all-in for my circumstances as I switched my complete network infrastructure to Ubiquiti´s Unifi Products with a 10Gbit core network for my future VMware vSphere / vSAN Cluster consisting of three HPE DL380 Gen9 Servers. Additionally, I upgraded my existing main NAS-System Xpenology/Synology HPE Microsserver Gen8 with a 10 Gbit Network-Card. To have a proper backup solution in place, I’m using a second HPE Microserver Gen8 with TrueNAS as backup storage for Veeam Backup & Recovery, also connected with 10Gbit to my core network.
As pictures tell more than a thousand words, here we go:
Detailed BoM of Homelab 2.0 can be found here.
Implemented Products & Solutions due June 2021
-VMware vSphere with vSAN
-VMware Identity Manager
-VMware vRealize Lifecycle Manager
-VMware vRealize Operations Manager
-VMware vRealize Log Insight
-VMware vRealize Business Server
-VMware vRealize Automation with Orchestrator
-VMware Unified Access Gateway
-VMware Horizon (yes i can access my Lab/Cloud from everywhere in the World)
-Nvidia Grid (vGPUs in my VDI VMs)
-VMware NSX-T
-VMware Velocloud
-Microsoft Active Directory
-Microsoft DNS-Server
-Microsoft SQL Server
-Microsoft Certificate Authority
-Veeam Backup & Replication
-Grafana Monitoring
-Docker Swarm
-Kubernetes Cluster
-NetApp ONTAP Simulator
-Cisco UCS Simulator
-Arista EOS Simulator
Power Consumption since monitoring was started on April 21
vCenter View on June 21
Physical view of my Homelab/Cloud
Since a Homelab is constantly evolving, I would like to tell you about the changes in 2021, or you can read about it on the following page: Homelab Version 2.1
