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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Home Lab thread: A hands-on method for failing your CCNA
 
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adorai
Nov 2, 2002

10/27/04 Never forget
Grimey Drawer
My home lab consists of 2x AMD Athlon x2 era dual core machines. One with 6x HDDs and 4GB of ECC RAM running openindiana for storage, and one with 8GB of RAM running ESXi 5.0. I can spin up a shitload of VMs and if they swap it's a bit slow but livable for a lab, and hey, I have a ton of space for my files.

edit: cost, excluding HDDs was like $400 or something obscenely low.

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adorai
Nov 2, 2002

10/27/04 Never forget
Grimey Drawer

Swink posted:

Can I use openfiler or similar to learn about storage? I know virtually nothing and dont know where to start.
Openfiler or openindiana (or some other illumos distro) are good places to learn storage basics. netapp also has a VM, you might be able to get a demo of it.

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