Happy New Year!!!
What a way to start the new year with some new toys 😊.
Recently a distributor in South Africa had an auction on some HPE infrastructure that they had on-hand and needed the hardware to be sold and out of their inventory. I took advantage of this and decided to bid. I’ve really struck a few good deal and managed to build myself a decent home lab. My home lab will be nested but having 64GB RAM and few TB storage every thing is running smoothly.
I’m currently running vSphere 7 and vSAN with vRealize with the plan on bring in NSX. This is purely for me to get familiar with the interface and test functionality.
I also used these homes labs to prep for client engagements as well as preparing for exams.
I did consider going for the Intel NUC for my lab…but I got a great deal on the HPE Micro Server.
I will share the lab setup and build to get a vanilla vSphere environment operational for anyone wanting to get the basics done. As in my earlier posts, you can use VMware Hands On Labs to have great look and feel of VMware products in their portfolio.
