Hello Everyone,
I need your help/advise on setting up a homelab environement. What I'm looking for the setup is to be as cheap as possible but at the same time give me a close to real world experience.
Should I setup a ESXi 2-3 physical host environment (Intel NUC) or just use my current (Dell R720) and get a decent R710 server or just do a nested 2-3 ESXi host VM on a single R720 thru VMware workstation?
What would be the best way to get an NSX lab ready?
Is there a lab guide for creating a homelab environment such as creating a domain, test HA, vmotion etc. network monitor and all that stuff also what's the best thing to do if I wanna test different VMware products on non production environment do they throw in a free ver etc.
Things that I already have.
L2 and L3 Switch
Synology NAS
Dell R720 with 16total proc and 64GB of RAM
Thanks in advance for all the inputs!