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Recently I did a full Home Lab upgrade, removing my old Dell R820 + Dell R720 and Intel NUCs for some bunch of server, given me the possibility to have much more capacity and performance than before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks eBay as it was my main provider, so here the new configuration :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

vSphere 8 – vSAN cluster composed of :<\/strong>
– 4 x Dell R630 (E5-2667 v4 @ 3.20GHz and 192GB RAM each)
– 4 x 480GB SAS SSD for Cache
– 8 x 1TB SATA SSD for Data<\/p>\n\n\n\n

vSphere 8 – Single server :<\/strong>
– 1x T420 (E5-2440 @ 2.40GHz and 164GB RAM) – 5x 900GB SAS HDD (RAID-5) + 5 x 480GB SAS SSD (3PAR SDD converted to run on Perc H710P)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1x Nutanix CE 2.1 :<\/strong>
– 1x R620 (E5-2630Lv2 @ 2.40GHz and 192GB RAM)
– 1x 73GB SAS HDD for Hypervisor
– 2x 480GB SAS SSD for CVM
– 4x 900GB 15K SAS HDD for data<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1x Switch Arista DCS-7050TX-72Q 48x 10GBase-T<\/strong>
Used as my Core Switch<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1x Switch Cisco 2960G <\/strong>
Used as a specific LAN connected to my secondary Internet router<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1x NAS Synology DS1511+DX510-2<\/strong>
– 5x 1TB HDD SATA – RAID 5
– 3x 1TB HDD SATA – Synology Hybrid RAID
– 2x 1TB SSD SATA – RAID 0)
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