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title: "Virtual Home Lab Upgrade"
date: "2013-07-22T20:19:53Z"
tags: ["VMware Workstation"]
categories: ["Hardware & HomeLab", "VMware"]
---

![Laboratory][1]

Since almost a month I am very happy user of new hardware. Finally after 5 years my previous PC was replaced. All equipment I bought was

* Processor: Intel Core i5 4670
* Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Extreme6
* Memory: Corsair DDR3-1866 CL10 Vengeance 32GB
* GPU - Built in HD 4600
* Hard Drive: Samsung 840 Pro Series 512GB
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On top of it I use Windows 8 Pro which I bought as upgrade and for virtualization I use VMware Workstation 9. Windows is deployed on wickedly fast Samsung SSD (Windows boots in 4-6 seconds) and I also have other "older" HDD which later one will be used as iSCSI storage for VM's running on storage (I will implement storage tiers(Gold, Silver, Bronze)).

### Usage

Pretty simple - ESXi hosts with nested VM's, I will use VLAN's, I will test LACP, storage tiers, stateless ESXi, SRM and many other things.

If you are interested in any specific design or software to test just drop me email.

[1]: /images/uploads/2013/07/Laboratory.webp