Finally I was able to upgrade my Homelab this weekend! Yayy!! I have been planning to make few modifications and additions to my Homelab as I was facing major resource constraints when trying to carry out some tests, primarily because I was running multiple nested hosts on a single Nuc; which was already hosting my ADDS and VCSA VMs.
Picture of my lab setup:
Updated homelab BOM:
1. Intel NUC 10 i5(1):
Ram:32GB
Host name: Nuclab.virmyst.homelab
Storage:
150 GB SATA SSD
500GB NVMe SSD
Virtual Machines hosted:
Windows ADDS
vROPS manager
Nested ESXis
2. Intel NUC 10 i5(2):
Ram:16GB
Hostname: Nuclab2.virmyst.homelab
Storage:
500GB NVMe
Virtual Machines hosted:
vCenter
3. RPI 4B 8GB: ESXi-Arm
Ram: 8GB
Hostname: RPI1.vimyst.homelab
Storage:
32GB USB drive
4. WD NAS 2-Bay
Storage:
1TB HDD
Services:
iSCSI initiator:
VCSADS datastore(600GB) : This is the storage for the vCenter VM
5. RPI 4B (4GB)
OS: RPI OS
RAM: 4GB
This Raspberry Pi is intended for testing Grafana and other open source monitoring services.
6. D-Link 16 port Unmanaged Switch
7. TP-Link
The diagram below shows the network layout of my homelab:
