With the Shelter in Place Order, I took the opportunity to fire up the ol' Home Lab. Nothing fancy, I affectionately call it my "Ghetto Lab"
The timing is perfect, I'm stuck at home and vSphere 7 just went GA this week. I'm taking this opportunity to do some testing and play with the latest release of vSphere from VMware.
The core of my lab consists of a pair of Dell PowerEdge R820s. Sadly, this model hasn't been officially supported by VMware since ESXi 6.5. Fortunately for me, it runs fine in my lab for testing! Below are the server specs for those who would also like to test on older hardware.
Server Specs:
Dell PowerEdge R820
Intel Xeon E5 - 4620
Broadcom PERC H710
Qlogic BCM57800 1GB Ethernet Adapter
Stay positive, use this time to learn and better yourself. Happy Testing!
I'm a Sr. Systems Engineer at a Global Environmental Engineering company. I've been in IT since 1999 and from 2005, my focus has been VMware datacenter products. More recently, my attention has been for Microsoft Azure services. As the Global Service Owner for VMware Datacenter products, I've had the pleasure of having in-depth and hands-on experience with not only VMware products, but server, storage and networking technologies.