Need advice with a laboratory at home

What is your opinion with this laboratory to the House vSphere: 2 servers with 16 or 32 GB of RAM from Newegg or Amazon PowerEdge T110 II (Xeon 1230 v2 w/3 NIC) Dell (Dell RAM is of $$), switch (Cisco SG300) managed gigabit, box of i3 intel not expensive with 3 or 4 discs running openfiler or Freenas for storage and a UPS am I missing something? I don't want to build a white box and don't want a RAID controller (for now). Thanks for your advice. (I'm studying for my VCP)

Welcome to the community,

If the purpose of this study, I would not even spend a lot of money on server hardware, but try to have a decent PC (e.g. I7 CPU, 16 + GB RAM, SSD and HARD disk) and build a virtual lab with which you will have a much better flexibility in what you have installed. For example look at building the ultimate vSphere lab to see if this might be an option for you.

André

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