Home Data Center – 2021-2022

For a new fresh start of my home data center project/home lab. This new setup will consist of new equipment.

Overall Cluster Specifications

• 240GHz 6x Intel Scalable Gold Xeons 6138s
• 1.5TB DDR4 2400MHz Memory
• 180TB SAS-SSD/HDD Storage Total

Production Environment & Storage Infrastructure

• All-Flash vSAN Cluster (3 DellEMC PowerEdge R740s)
  • Dell PowerEdge R70XD – Production Host
  • 2 x Intel Xeon Processor Gold 6138 2.0GHZ 27.5M 512GB RAM 10TB vSAN
    • VMware vSphere 8.0U1
    • Dual Mellanox ConnectX-4 LX 50Gb/s (Data, vSAN)
    • Quad Intel X710 NDC SFP+ 10Gb/s
• Dell PowerEdge R740XD – Storage Server
  • 1 x Intel Scalable Silver 4108 6 Core – 64GB RAM – 95TB Storage ( iSCSI, NFS, SMB)
    • Dual Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro 40Gb/s (80Gb/s Backbone for NAS/SAN)
• Dell PowerEdge R740XD – Archive Storage Server
  • Intel Scalable Bronze 6 Core – 32GB RAM – 50TB Storage ( iSCSI, NFS, SMB)
  • Dual Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro 40Gb/s (80Gb/s Backbone for NAS/SAN)

Lab Server & Storage Infrastructure

• All-Flash vSAN Cluster (3 DellEMC PowerEdge R730XDs)
• Dell PowerEdge R730XD – Production Host
  • 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz (512GB RAM) – 7TB Total vSAN Storage
    • VMware ESXi 7.0 U3
    • Quad Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro 40Gb/s (Data, vSAN)
    • Quad Intel X710 NDC SFP+ 10Gb/s

Infrastructure

• 1 x Paloalto PA-850 Firewall
• 1 x Arista DCS-7050QX-32-F-S 32x QSFP+ (Primary Core Switch)
• 1 x Arista DCS-7050QX-35-F 40GbE Switch (Secondary Core Switch)
• 1 x Arista DCS-7050-Q 52x10Gb Switch
• 1 x Cisco Catalyst C3750X PoE+
• 1 x Cisco Catalyst C3650-24-PS PoE+
• 2 x APC Netshelter 48U SX (Dell)

Network Backbone Specs

• Lumen Symmetrical Gigabit Internet Service
• Routing Protocols – eBGP, iBGP, Static Routing
• Quad 40Gb/s QSFP+ Backbone for Management and vSAN
• Quad 10Gb/s SFP+ Backbone for iSCSI Storage
• 1 Gb/s Network Management, Server Management, Misc, Edge Devices
• Isolated DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) for any kind of web hosting. (This website is actually hosted in my home lab! 🙂

Power Infrastructure

• 4 x EATON 1500va UPS (uninterruptible power supply)
• 2 x APC 7830 20VA 120V PDU ( power distribution units)
• 2 x 20AMP Circuits A/B topology

Cooling Infrastructure

• 1 x AC Infinity Cloudline Inline Duct Fan 8″ ( Heat is repurposed and exhausted to other areas of home)
• 1 x AC Infinity Cloudline Inline Duct Fan 6″ (Cool air is brought in with 6″ AC Infinity)