A few months ago I set out to build a home lab that I could use to run vSphere, vCD, View, vCAC, vCO, vCops, and all other grat management tools that VMware has as well as Hyper-V, XenServer, KVM, OpenStack, Citrix XenDesktop, XenPVS and just about anything else I could think of running. Initially I built a server with the following specs:
The Power House
- (1) ASUS KGPE-D16 Dual Socket AMD Motherboard
- (2) AMD Opteron 6320 2.8GHz 8-Core Processors
- 128GB Memory
- 800W Corsair PowerSupply