My home lab configuration

Please note that I share my hardware configurations for fun and educational purposes only. Nothing prevents you from having a completely different configuration, be it better or inferior. For all future labs, you’ll need to adapt the resources allocated to vms/containers (such as RAM, CPU…) according to your configuration.

Lab Workstation

This workstation is used for building my labs. It will be used as virutalization server:

Hardware

• Processor: Processeur Intel® Core™ i9-13900K
• RAM: 128 Go
• Storage:
  • 2To SSD m.2 nvme
  • 512 Go SSD SATA
  • 256 Go SSD SATA
• Graphic card: Amd rx6600 (I could’ve done better)
• Additional Dual NIC PCI Express + Chipset integrated NIC

I haven’t listed all the components, just the most important ones

Software/Virtualization

For laboratory use, I opted for open-source software. So I installed Proxmox.

Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE) is a free, open-source virtualization solution that enables the deployment of virtualized systems with Linux KVM or on Linux LXC containers, networking, storage and plenty other capabilities on a single platform.

You can follow installation tutorial here: Proxmox Installation Guidee

Personal Computer

This mini PC is used on a daily basis and to access my labs.

Hardware

• CPU: Intel Celeron N5095
• RAM: 8 Go
• Storage: 256 Go SSD
• Dual LAN
• Triple HDMI

Operating System

• Windows 11 Pro

Other:

• manageable switch
• Aiming to add a firewall behind my ISP modem