Homelab V4

Ready for VCF

I have done a huge redesign of my Homelab. To better test VCF scenarios, 3 new Minisforum MS-01 have been added. These have a 13th generation i9 and are equipped with fast NVMes for memory tiering. They also have 2x10G and 2x2.5G networking on board for various VM workloads. Furthermore, I converted my storage from NFS to iSCSI with multipathing, which gets even more performance out of my self-built Unraid. I manage about 2 GB/s read / 1.2 GB GB/s write and 78K IOPS (Random 4K with 32Q) in a Windows 11 VM.

Pretty impressive for my setup. I still have to customize the rack a bit so that I can add the 10G Mikrotik switch and clean up the VLANs from old labs. I’m already planning a further expansion stage though.\