HomeLab Actual State

State December 2025

My HomeLab is based on three datacenters with the following resources:

984 CPU Cores

196 GHz CPU Frequency

28 TB RAM

212 TB Flash Capacity

117 TB HDD Capacity

41 physical Servers

23 GPUs (vGPU & AI)

3 Storage Arrays

12 Network Switches

7 Wifi Access Points

Datacenter Physical View:

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Rittal CMC Patchpanel Ubiquit 10GbE Router Cable Management Ubiquiti USW Pro Aggregation Cable Management Internet Business Line Internet DSL Line Internet Business Line Internet LTE Velocloud Edge 840 Velocloud Edge 680 Ubiquiti USW Pro 48 PoE Patch Panel Synology RS1221+ LTO TFT Console Dell R740 VCF HoloDeck Dell R740xd Spare Free Rack Space Network Cable Tray Brocade DS-300B SAN Switches IBM DS3512 Storage Array IBM DS4700 Storage Array APC SMC1000I-2UC UPS

Rittal CMC

Rack Management

Patchpanel

RJ-45 Patch Panel. Every cable is labled.

Orange cable = Power

Blue cable = Network Interconnect

Yellow cable = IPMI

Black cable = KVM

Red cable = Internet

Ubiquit 10GbE Router

Ubiquiti Networks XG-8 Router

Cable Management

Brush strips for cable entry

Ubiquiti USW Pro Aggregation

28 x 10GbE SFP+ and 4 x 25GBE SFP28 Switch

Cable Management

Brush strips for cable entry

Internet Business Line

Cable Modem for 1000Mbps Downstream and 50 Mbps Upstream

GE4 on Velocloud Edge

Internet DSL Line

DSL Modem for 50Mbps Downstream and 10 Mbps Upstream

GE5 on Velocloud Edge

Internet Business Line

Cable Modem for 450Mbps Downstream and 40Mbps Upstream.

GE3 on Velocloud Edge

Internet LTE

LTE Modem on House roof for 300Mbps Downstream and 50 Mbps Upstream

GE6 on Velocloud Edge

Velocloud Edge 840

Dual Edge 840 HA Cluster for Testing

Velocloud Edge 680

Main SD-WAN Solution

Combines all Internet connections

Ubiquiti USW Pro 48 PoE

48 x 1GbE RJ-45 with Poe and 4 x 10GbE SFP+

Patch Panel

RJ-45 Patch Panel. Every cable is labled.

Orange cable = Power

Blue cable = Network Interconnect

Yellow cable = IPMI

Black cable = KVM

Red cable = Internet

Synology RS1221+

NAS with 8 x 4TB SATA SSD, 32GB RAM, 2 x 25GbE SFP28 NIC

Raid 6

LTO

Dual LTO4 SAS Drives

TFT Console

Local Console with Display and Keyboard / Mouse combination

Dell R740 VCF HoloDeck

VMware Cloud Foundation 3 Pod Demo

2 x Intel 6258R 28 Cores 2,7GHz

1536GB DDR4 2666MHz RAM

Dell Perc 740P Controller with 8GB Cache

1 x Nvidia L4 GPU for AI workloads

1 x 400GB SAS SSD ESXi Boot

8 x 2TB SAS SSD Raid 10 VCF

2 x 7.68TB SAS SSD Raid 1 WekaIO

2 x 10GbE SFP+

Dell R740xd Spare

Spare Server / Test Server + 4 other not visible here

Free Rack Space

2 HE free / Old Data Domain Bezel

Network Cable Tray

Tray for network cables with PowerVault Bezel

Brocade DS-300B SAN Switches

Dual FibreChannel SAN Switches with 24 x 8Gbit ports

IBM DS3512 Storage Array

8Gbit FibreChannel Storage Array with 12 x 2TB NL SAS HDDs

IBM DS4700 Storage Array

4Gbit FibreChannel Array with 16 x 300GB FC HDDs

APC SMC1000I-2UC UPS

SmartConnect Featured UPS with estimated runtime of 45 Minutes

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Dell R740 vSAN ESA Max Dell R740 vSAN ESA Max Dell XR2 AI Dell XR2 AI Dell XR2 AI Dell XR2 AI Dell R740xd VCDR Nvidia Networking SN2100 Switch Dell VRTX Chassis Dell M640P Dell M640 Dell M640 Dell M640 Console & KVM Cable Tray Dell R740xd Main Cluster Dell R740xd Main Cluster Dell R740 Intel GPU Dell R740 Intel GPU Dell R740 Nvidia Test Dell R740 Nvidia Test Dell R740 ESA Cluster Dell R740 ESA Cluster Rittal CMC APC SMT3000RMI2UC UPS Secret Area

Dell R740 vSAN ESA Max

VMware vSAN ESA Max Full NVMe

2 x Intel 6130 16 Cores 2,10GHz

768GB DDR4 2666MHz RAM

Dell Perc H730P Controller

1 x 400GB SATA SSD ESXi Boot

4 x Intel P4800X 375GB NVMe

2 x 100GbE QSFP

2 x 10GbE SFP+

Dell R740 vSAN ESA Max

VMware vSAN ESA Max Full NVMe

2 x Intel 6130 16 Cores 2,10GHz

768GB DDR4 2666MHz RAM

Dell Perc H730P Controller

1 x 400GB SATA SSD ESXi Boot

4 x Intel P4800X 375GB NVMe

2 x 100GbE QSFP

2 x 10GbE SFP+

Dell XR2 AI

Nvidia AI Enterprise Platform (VMware vSAN OSA)

2 x Intel 4214 12 Cores 2,2GHz

384GB DDR4 2400MHz RAM

Perc Controller

1 x 240GB M2 SATA SSD ESXi Boot

1 x 800GB SAS SSD vSAN Cache

1 x 800GB SAS SSD vSAN Capacity

1 x Nvidia T4 GPU

2 x 10GbE SFP+

Dell XR2 AI

Nvidia AI Enterprise Platform (VMware vSAN OSA)

2 x Intel 4214 12 Cores 2,2GHz

384GB DDR4 2400MHz RAM

Perc Controller

1 x 240GB M2 SATA SSD ESXi Boot

1 x 800GB SAS SSD vSAN Cache

1 x 800GB SAS SSD vSAN Capacity

1 x Nvidia T4 GPU

2 x 10GbE SFP+

Dell XR2 AI

Nvidia AI Enterprise Platform (VMware vSAN OSA)

2 x Intel 4214 12 Cores 2,2GHz

384GB DDR4 2400MHz RAM

Perc Controller

1 x 240GB M2 SATA SSD ESXi Boot

1 x 800GB SAS SSD vSAN Cache

1 x 800GB SAS SSD vSAN Capacity

1 x Nvidia T4 GPU

2 x 10GbE SFP+

Dell XR2 AI

Nvidia AI Enterprise Platform (VMware vSAN OSA)

2 x Intel 4214 12 Cores 2,2GHz

384GB DDR4 2400MHz RAM

Perc Controller

1 x 240GB M2 SATA SSD ESXi Boot

1 x 800GB SAS SSD vSAN Cache

1 x 800GB SAS SSD vSAN Capacity

1 x Nvidia T4 GPU

2 x 10GbE SFP+

Dell R740xd VCDR

Backup and Desaster Recovery (Cohesity, DataDomain, PowerProtect, Veeam)

2 x Intel 8167M 26 Cores 2,0 GHz

768GB DDR4 2666MHz RAM

Dell Perc H740P Controller 8GB

IBM Serveraid Controller

1 x 400GB SATA SSD ESXi Boot

4 x 800GB NVMe

4 x 18TB 3,5″ Storage Mid Bay SATA HDDs

2 x 7,68TB SAS SSD

2 x 25GbE SFP28

Nvidia Networking SN2100 Switch

16 x 100GbE QSFP Switch Low Latency High Performance

Dual PSU

QSFP Splitter cables for 4 x 25GbE from 1 x 100GbE

Dell VRTX Chassis

Chassis with 10GbE Switch

4 x PSU

2 x CMC

2 x Shared Perc8 Controller

15 x 1,2TB SAS HDDs

4 x Dual Port Mellanox 40GbE NICs QSFP

Dell M640P

Single Site VMware vSAN OSA Cluster

2 x Intel 5118 12 Cores 2,30 GHz

192GB DDR4 2666MHz RAM

Dell Perc Mini Controller

1 x Dell Boss Device with 2 x 240GB SATA M2 ESXi Boot

1 x 200GB SAS SSD vSAN Cache

1 x 960GB SATA SSD vSAN Capacity

2 x 10GbE Internal (SFP+)

2 x 40GbE QSFP

Dell M640

Single Site VMware vSAN OSA Cluster

2 x Intel 5118 12 Cores 2,30 GHz

192GB DDR4 2666MHz RAM

Dell Perc Mini Controller

1 x Dell Boss Device with 2 x 240GB SATA M2 ESXi Boot

1 x 200GB SAS SSD vSAN Cache

1 x 960GB SATA SSD vSAN Capacity

2 x 10GbE Internal (SFP+)

2 x 40GbE QSFP

Dell M640

Single Site VMware vSAN OSA Cluster

2 x Intel 5118 12 Cores 2,30 GHz

192GB DDR4 2666MHz RAM

Dell Perc Mini Controller

1 x Dell Boss Device with 2 x 240GB SATA M2 ESXi Boot

1 x 200GB SAS SSD vSAN Cache

1 x 960GB SATA SSD vSAN Capacity

2 x 10GbE Internal (SFP+)

2 x 40GbE QSFP

Dell M640

Single Site VMware vSAN OSA Cluster

2 x Intel 5118 12 Cores 2,30 GHz

192GB DDR4 2666MHz RAM

Dell Perc Mini Controller

1 x Dell Boss Device with 2 x 240GB SATA M2 ESXi Boot

1 x 200GB SAS SSD vSAN Cache

1 x 960GB SATA SSD vSAN Capacity

2 x 10GbE Internal (SFP+)

2 x 40GbE QSFP

Console & KVM

1HE Console with TFT and Keyboard / Mouse combination

IBM CGM16 KVM Switch with dual PSU and dual NIC

HTML5 Console for every single server

Cable Tray

Cable Tray for SFP+, SFP28 and QSFP cables with Compellent Front Bezel

Dell R740xd Main Cluster

VMware vSAN 2 Node Cluster with Nested Fault Domains (3 Disk Groups)

2 x Intel 8168 24 Cores 2,70GHz

1536GB DDR4 2666MHz RAM

Dell HBA330 Controller

1 x 200GB SAS SSD ESXi Boot

3 x Intel P4800X PCIe NVMe vSAN Cache

6 x 3,84TB SAS SSD vSAN Capacity

1 x 1,92TB SAS SSD vSAN Direct

1 x Nvidia RTX8000 GPU

2 x 100GbE QSFP

4 x 10GbE SFP+

Dell R740xd Main Cluster

VMware vSAN 2 Node Cluster with Nested Fault Domains (3 Disk Groups)

2 x Intel 8168 24 Cores 2,70GHz

1536GB DDR4 2666MHz RAM

Dell HBA330 Controller

1 x 200GB SAS SSD ESXi Boot

3 x Intel P4800X PCIe NVMe vSAN Cache

6 x 3,84TB SAS SSD vSAN Capacity

1 x 1,92TB SAS SSD vSAN Direct

1 x Nvidia RTX8000 GPU

2 x 100GbE QSFP

4 x 10GbE SFP+

Dell R740 Intel GPU

Intel GPU Test Cluster / VMware vSAN ESA Cluster

2 x Intel 6130 16 Cores 2,10GHz

384GB DDR4 2666MHz RAM

Dell Perc H730P Controller

1 x 200GB SATA SSD ESXi Boot

1 x 2TB NVMe P4600

1 x Intel Flex 140 GPU

2 x 40GbE QSFP

2 x 25GbE SFP28

Dell R740 Intel GPU

Intel GPU Test Cluster / VMware vSAN ESA Cluster

2 x Intel 6130 16 Cores 2,10GHz

384GB DDR4 2666MHz RAM

Dell Perc H730P Controller

1 x 200GB SATA SSD ESXi Boot

1 x 2TB NVMe P4600

1 x Intel Flex 140 GPU

2 x 40GbE QSFP

2 x 25GbE SFP28

Dell R740 Nvidia Test

Nvidia GPU Test Cluster / VMware vSAN OSA

2 x Intel 6130 16 Cores 2,10GHz

384GB DDR4 2666MHz RAM

Dell Perc H730P Controller

1 x 200GB SATA SSD ESXi Boot

1 x 400GB SAS SSD vSAN Cache

1 x 960GB SATA SSD vSAN Capacity

1 x Nvidia P4 GPU

2 x 40GbE QSFP

2 x 25GbE SFP28

Dell R740 Nvidia Test

Nvidia GPU Test Cluster / VMware vSAN OSA

2 x Intel 6130 16 Cores 2,10GHz

384GB DDR4 2666MHz RAM

Dell Perc H730P Controller

1 x 200GB SATA SSD ESXi Boot

1 x 400GB SAS SSD vSAN Cache

1 x 960GB SATA SSD vSAN Capacity

1 x Nvidia P4 GPU

2 x 40GbE QSFP

2 x 25GbE SFP28

Dell R740 ESA Cluster

VMware vSAN ESA Cluster

2 x Intel 6130 16 Cores 2,10GHz

384GB DDR4 2666MHz RAM

No Perc Controller

2 x 16GB IDSM Micro SD Card (Clover Bootloader with NVMe support)

1 x 512GB NVMe ESXi Boot

1 x 2TB Intel NVMe

2 x 10GbE SFP+

Dell R740 ESA Cluster

VMware vSAN ESA Cluster

2 x Intel 6130 16 Cores 2,10GHz

384GB DDR4 2666MHz RAM

No Perc Controller

2 x 16GB IDSM Micro SD Card (Clover Bootloader with NVMe support)

1 x 512GB NVMe ESXi Boot

1 x 2TB Intel NVMe

2 x 10GbE SFP+

Rittal CMC

Rack Management

APC SMT3000RMI2UC UPS

Smart Connect Features UPS with estimated runtime of 28 Minutes

Secret Area

Special project, more infos later

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CMC CMC Power PDU Ubiquiti USW-Pro 24 PoE Patchpanel Uplink PSU PSU SuperMicro SuperMicro KVM KVM Mac Mini Mac Mini Mac Mini Thunderbolt PCIe Thunderbolt PCIe Rackmount Kit MacPro Organizer UPS

CMC

Rittal CMC Rack Management System

SNMP Checks, Temperature etc…

CMC Power

Rittal CMC Power Management (PDU)

CMC connected Power Management System

PDU

Network PDU

ANEL Net-PwrCtrl Home

Network enabled PDU with 3 power sockets

Ubiquiti USW-Pro 24 PoE

Ubiquiti USW Pro 24

24 x 1GbE with PoE

2 x 10 GbE Uplink to Datacenter 1

Connected Systems:

Surveillance Cameras

Raspberry Pi Cluster

Witness Host

Car Diag System

Car Coding System

Patchpanel

Patchpanel

Cable Management for a clean look 🙂

Each cable is labeled on both ends!

Black cable = Mgmt

Grey cable = VMs

Yellow cable = IPMI

Orange cable = Power

Uplink

Uplink

10GbE Fibre Uplink to Datacenter 1

LACP Configuration

10 Gb-SR Gbics

PSU

SuperMicro PSU

External Power Supply for SuperMicro E302-9D

PSU

SuperMicro PSU

External Power Supply for SuperMicro E302-9D

SuperMicro

SuperMicro E302-9D

Passive Cooled Server

1 x Xeon-D Quad Core 2.0 GHz

4 x 64GB DDR4 ECC RAM = 256GB

1 x SuperMicro SATADOM 64GB

1 x Samsung 970 Pro NVMe 1TB vSAN Cache

2 x Samsung 960 4 TB SATA SSD vSAN Capacity

1 x 1 GbE IPMI

2 x 1 GbE Mgmt (LACP)

4 x 1 GbE VMs (LACP)

2 x 10 GbE vMotion / vSAN

HomeLab Stage LVIII: Silent Datacenter

SuperMicro

SuperMicro E302-9D

Passive Cooled Server

1 x Xeon-D Quad Core 2.0 GHz

4 x 64GB DDR4 ECC RAM = 256GB

1 x SuperMicro SATADOM 64GB

1 x Samsung 970 Pro NVMe 1TB vSAN Cache

2 x Samsung 960 4 TB SATA SSD vSAN Capacity

1 x 1 GbE IPMI

2 x 1 GbE Mgmt (LACP)

4 x 1 GbE VMs (LACP)

2 x 10 GbE vMotion / vSAN

HomeLab Stage LVIII: Silent Datacenter

KVM

IBM GCM16 KVM

Fully deployed IBM GCM16 KVM Switch with HTML5 option. Every datacenter is connected, with EVERY system.

HomeLab Stage LV: KVM Solution

KVM

IBM GCM16 KVM

Fully deployed IBM GCM16 KVM Switch with HTML5 option. Every datacenter is connected, with EVERY system.

HomeLab Stage LV: KVM Solution

Mac Mini

Apple Mac Mini

Core i7 with Quad Core 2,7 GHz

16GB RAM

USB Boot Device

Intel 400GB SATA SSD vSAN Cache

Samsung 1TB SATA SSD vSAN Capacity

1 x 1 GbE NIC onBoard

1 x 1 GbE Thunderbolt NIC

Thunderbolt PCIe Expansion

Mac Mini

Apple Mac Mini

Core i7 with Quad Core 2,7 GHz

16GB RAM

USB Boot Device

Intel 400GB SATA SSD vSAN Cache

Samsung 1TB SATA SSD vSAN Capacity

1 x 1 GbE NIC onBoard

1 x 1 GbE Thunderbolt NIC

Thunderbolt PCIe Expansion

Mac Mini

Apple Mac Mini

Core i7 with Quad Core 2,7 GHz

16GB RAM

USB Boot Device

Intel 400GB SATA SSD vSAN Cache

Samsung 1TB SATA SSD vSAN Capacity

1 x 1 GbE NIC onBoard

1 x 1 GbE Thunderbolt NIC

Thunderbolt PCIe Expansion

Thunderbolt PCIe

Sonnet Thunderbolt PCIe Expansion

PCIe expansion for 10GbE and other cards. Fully functional under ESXi….

Stage X: HomeLab Expansion

Thunderbolt PCIe

Sonnet Thunderbolt PCIe Expansion

PCIe expansion for 10GbE and other cards. Fully functional under ESXi….

Stage X: HomeLab Expansion

Rackmount Kit

Sonnet Rackmount Kit for Apple Mac Pro

Dedicated Rackmount Kit for Apple´s MacPro 2013 (Trashcan)

All ports are accessible, KVM is also connected via Displayport to VGA Adapter

MacPro

Apple Mac Pro 2013

1 x 16 Core Xeon CPU

64GB RAM

2 x AMD D700 GPUs

3 x 2 TB NVMe SSDs (with SDD Expansion board)

Thunderbolt 10GbE NIC

HomeLab Stage XLVI: New ESXi Host (MacPro)

Organizer

Cable and Adapter Organizer

Drawer with a lot of space….

UPS

APC UPS Outside of rack

APC SMC 1000 IC UPS with SmartConnect Online Monitoring

Estimated Runtime: 30 minutes

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Ubiquiti USW-Pro Cable Routing Power HomeKit Uplink Ubiquiti AC Pro APC Maxtang Raspberry Pi Lego Hidden_PDU

Ubiquiti USW-Pro

Ubiquiti USW Pro 24

24 x 1GbE with PoE

2 x 10 GbE Uplink to Datacenter 1

Connected Systems:

Surveillance Cameras

Raspberry Pi Cluster

Witness Host

Car Diag System

Car Coding System

Cable Routing

Cable Routing

Cable Organizer for Power, Network and KVM

Just to look good 🙂

Power

Power Distribution

Power for the systems

Including hidden network PDU

HomeKit

HomeKit Plug

Apple HomeKit Wifi Plug for Outdoor Garage Lights

Uplink

Uplink

10GbE Fibre Uplink to Datacenter 1

LACP Configuration

10 Gb-SR Gbics

Ubiquiti AC Pro

Ubiquiti WiFi

Ubiquiti AC Pro Access Point

For Cameras, Laptops and Tablets

APC

APC UPS

APC SMC 1000 IC UPS with SmartConnect

Estimated Runtime: 2h

Maxtang

Maxtang Witness Host

Maxtang EHL-35 “ThinClient Rangee RT-601-L” ESXi Host

1 x Intel Celeron Quad Core 2.0 GHz

1 x 32GB DDR4 S0DIMM

1 x Gigabit USB 3.0 NIC

1 x 120GB Samsung SATA SSD (ESXi Boot)

1 x 960GB Intel SATA SSD D3-4510

Use Case:

All VMware vSAN Witness Appliances

KMS 3rd Node

Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi Cluster

Dual Raspberry Pi 4 Cluster with ESXi on ARM (Fling)

Quad Core ARM v8 Cortex A72

8GB LPDDR4 RAM

64GB Boot Device

NAS Storage Connection

KVM Connection via Micro HDMI to VGA

Lego

VMware Lego Mini-Figures

My collection of all available Lego Mini Figures from VMware and Others

Hidden_PDU

Network PDU

ANEL Net-PwrCtrl Home

Network enabled PDU with 3 power sockets

Virtual View:

Internet:

4 Different Connections:

  • 450Mbit Download and 50Mbit Upload with 5 static public IPs from cable provider
  • 1000Mbit Download and 50Mbit Upload with 1 static public IP from cable provider
  • 50Mbit Download and 10Mbit Upload from DSL provider
  • 300 Mbit Download and 50Mbit Upload LTE router with external antennas, configured as Hot-Standby within VMware SD-WAN

Velocloud SD-WAN: 

Two Velocloud Edge 840 SD-WAN appliances in HA mode, managing all Internet connections and one Velocloud Edge 680 appliance.

HomeOffice: (Click on elements)

Office
Camera_iPad Dell 4K Webcam MacBook Air AirPodsMax Alienware Headset MacBook LaMetric Gigaset Vertical Mouse Bose Speaker Kindle StreamDeckPlus LiveStreamer StreamDeckXL iPad_Mini Keyboard Rollermouse Extended Mouse Pad Azeron 3D iPadPro Dock iPad Pro Lego 8K Logitech Brio 4K KeyLight Mic KeyLight Overhead Myself

Camera_iPad

Apple iPad

Control for all Surveillance Cameras

Dell 4K Webcam

Dell 4K Webcam

4K Webcam supporting Windows Hello

USB 3.0 Connection

OBS Setup: Full View

MacBook Air

Apple MacBook Air 13,6″

M2 8 Core CPU

10 Core GPU

24GB RAM

1TB SSD

Using an USB-C Docking Station with 1GbE NIC

AirPodsMax

Apple AirPods Max

On Standing Desk

Alienware Headset

Dell Alienware Headset AW920H

Wireless Gaming Headset with excellent ANC mode

MacBook

Apple MacBook 12″

Core i7

16GB RAM

512GB SSD

LaMetric

La Metric Time

Dynamic Display Clock

Showing Social Media Followers

Showing CO2 in room air from Netatmo weather station

Gigaset

Siemens Gigaset Phone

Office Phone / wired connection

Vertical Mouse

Logitech MX Vertical

Mouse for ergonomic gaming 🙂

Bose Speaker

Bose 2 Node Speaker System

Stereo speaker connected to Avermedia Live Streamer

Kindle

Amazon Kindle Scribe

eBook Reader and scratchbook for quick notes

I love it!

StreamDeckPlus

Elgato Stream Deck Plus

Controlling MuteDeck and Lights

Elgato KeyLights and Hue Light Strips

LiveStreamer

AverMedia Live Streamer

Audio Control for all connected devices:

Avermedia XLR Studio Mic, iPad Pro Line-In, Console, System, Game and Chat.

StreamDeckXL

Elgato Stream Deck XL

Big version of the Stream Deck for OBS Control.

OBS Setup:

Logitech Brio 4K Camera

Dell 4K Camera

CamLink Camera

Logitech Overhead Camera

iPad via Reflector

iPad_Mini

Apple iPad Mini

Older iPad Mini for Elgato StreamDeck Mobile Tests

Keyboard

Contour Balance Wireless Keyboard

Perfect combination with the roller mouse underneath

Rollermouse

Contour Roller Mouse Red Plus Wireless

Best input device ever! I will never work without it

Extended Mouse Pad

Corsair MM700 RGB Extended Mouse Pad

Clean and smooth pad with RGB which can be controlled….

Azeron

Azeron Cyborg Controller

Left Hand Programmable Controller

29 keys and thumbstick

3D

3Dconnexion SpaceExplorer

Controller for CAD workstations

Works fine inside Google Earth

iPadPro Dock

Kensington iPad Pro Dock

Docking Station for iPad Pro 12.9″

Including USB, HDMI and 1GbE NIC

Bluetooth connection to Magic Keyboard and Magic Trackpad

iPad Pro

Apple iPad Pro 12.9″ M1, 1TB

Main use case: Drawings when performing VMware Trainings

With Apple Pencil 2

Lego

Lego Minifigure Collection

My VMware Lego Mini Figures 🙂

8K

Dual Dell 32″ 8K Display

Dell UP3218K with resolution of 7680×4320

They are so beautiful! Each display has 33 million pixels

Connected via dual DisplayPort cables to Dual Nvidia RTX A6000 GPUs

Logitech Brio

Logitech Brio 4K Webcam

Main Webcam with Windows Hello feature

I have plastic eyes attached to it, to make it a little bit more human…..

OBS Setup: Main View

4K

LG Ultrafine Ergo 32UN880 Displays

Dual Setup connected to the Nvidia P4000

Static content like WhatsApp, OBS, Network Monitoring etc….

KeyLight

Elgato KeyLight

Studio Lights connected via WiFi, fully controlable. A very good invest! I am using a retractable green screen in the back for perfect video shots.

Mic

Avermedia XLR Mic 330

Studio Mic connected to Avermedia Live Streamer. Very good quality

KeyLight

Elgato KeyLight

Studio Lights connected via WiFi, fully controlable. A very good invest! I am using a retractable green screen in the back for perfect video shots.

Overhead

Logitech C920 Overhead Webcam

Overhead installed Logitech Webcam to show my entire setup live when doing video calls…..
Controlled via OBS and StreamDeck

Myself

Lego Mini Me version of myself…..

Workstation: (Hover over different areas)

PC

PC
PSU Nvidia A6000 Intel P5800X Soundblaster Nvidia P4000 CPU RAM SSD Goverlay Fans MB Case RGB Fans RGB RGB Fans RAM Control NICs

PSU

Corsair Power Supply

Corsair AX1600i Power Supply with USB Management

Nvidia A6000

Dual Nvidia RTX A6000

2 x Nvidia RTX A6000 GPUs with NVLink for Dual 32″ 8K Displays

2x 48GB GDDR6 memory

2 x 84 RT Cores

2 x 336 Tensor Cores

2 x 10.752 CUDA Cores

2 x 300W

Intel P5800X

Intel Optane NVMe

1 x Intel P5800X Optane with 1.6TB

PCIe 4.0 Adapter

Insane Performance 🙂

Soundblaster

Soundblaster AE5 Plus

PCIe Sound with Dolby Digital and DTS Encoding

RGB Option

Nvidia P4000

Nvidia P4000 GPU

1 x Nvidia P4000 GPU for 2 x 32″ 4K Displays

8GB GDDR5

1792 CUDA Cores

105W Power

CPU

Intel Xeon W-3335

16 Cores 3.40GHz with Turbo up to 4.0 GHz

RAM

512GB RAM

8 x 64GB ECC DDR4-3200MHz

SSD

4TB SSD RaidO

2 x 2TB SATA SSD for Downloads and Games

Goverlay

Internal Display

USB connected Goverlay 3,5″ Display with custom layout

CPU load, GPU load, Optane utilization, PSU load and Network utilization

Fans

Case Fans

Front: 3 x 120mm Noctua Fans (ultra quiet)

Back: 2 x 120mm Corsair RGB Fans

MB

SuperMicro Mainboard

Supermicro X12SPA-TF

16 DIMM Slots (8 used)

4 x PCIe 4.0×16

3 x PCIe 4.0×8

4 x PCIe 4.0 M2

Dedicated IPMI 1GbE Port

1 x 1GbE Port

1 x 10 GbE Port

Case

Coolermaster C700M

E-ATX Case

RGB Build in

Corsair Commander for Fan and RGB Control

RGB Fans

Corsair 120mm RGB

Intel P5800X Cooling

RGB

RGB Stripes

Controlled via Soundblaster AE5plus

RGB Fans

Corsair 120mm RGB

Backside Cooling (getting heat out of case)

RAM

512GB RAM

8 x 64GB ECC DDR4-3200MHz

Control

Corsair Commander Pro

USB connected Controller for all Fans and RGB Lights

NICs

Network Interfaces

1 x IPMI 1GbE

1 x 1 GbE for VLANs (tagged)

1 x 10 GbE copper with media converter

Fibre Cabling all around my house + copper

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