irgNET – LAB 7.0 U2

Welcome to my next HomeLab Update. Today we will talk about a new Family Member for the irgNET Datacenter. Since irgNET-Lab 5.0 update; I had a HPE ML310e v2 Gen8 as my backup/redundancy server. As the requirements for my VMware vSAN environment grew, the backup size increased and the 4 LFF slots were no longer enough.

irgNET-Lab 5.0

So I needed an alternative that was up to date technologically and fit into my new Dell ecosystem. I got a Dell PowerEdge T330 tower server – yes, I still want to stay with this concept. This server is located in Datacenter 2 / my office and must be quiet and performant at the same time. The Dell PowerEdge T330 comes with:

1x Intel E3-1240 v6 Kaby Lake CPU
4x 8GB DDR4 Memory (32GB, up to 64GB Supported)
1x 2P 10GbE NIC SFP+
1x Dell PERC H730 Adapter
8x LFF drive slots
1x iDRAC
2x power supplies

So a decent upgrade to the HPE system and more than sufficient for future backup, redundancy solutions. Running alongside my Veeam backup appliance is a redundant AD/DNS server and an NFS server where I write my vCenter backups.

NFS-Server with CentOS 8 / Red Hat 8 for VMware vCenter Backups

I migrated all VMs, services, settings etc. from the previous system and the irgNET Datacenter now looks like this:

And that is it from this short Hardware HomeLab Update. Stay tuned for the next ones! Maybe I will replace my Backup appliance for good. 😉