The end of the home lab?

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Actually just invested in 3 Intel NUC Skull Canyon boxes for me to play with (more Container hosts then anything really).

 

I've never really had a proper lab, just a crappy old Optiplex.. but I imagine most of my future labbing will be cloud based (where possible.)

 

TBH I'm not sure how much you need it for the VCDX exam, that's all about the design.

VCAP for sure tho (well, the admin/deploy side, again not sure on the design).

 

I dont have any dedicated systems I just use my 16GB (RAM) macbook pro.. 250GB SSD with an additional 500GB internal storage and then a 1TB external drive. I use parallels for my VMs.. can get away with running 1 server and two host VMs at one time.

 

I have never been more interested in homelab than now. Google, apple and amazon is doing an amazing job for smart homes, but still there are alot of compability issues cross system. Buillding your own Home Assistant. Thats why i searched for homelab on google in the first place. I want to find good forums.

 

Unless you are learning networking seems no real need. I've never had a home lab, but then i'm a programmer, even so I do IT styles tasks. You can build a threadripper system with few SSD's and load RAM and have 10+ hosts virtualized on one box. You can run containers, you can just cohost. If thats not enough you can use cloud services.

 

Yeah i stopped building home labs since 2012

Its all cloud based now

 

I'm still running most of my labs in Hyper-V. I think it depends on what you're studying for.

I'm prepping for RHCE at the moment, and some of the networking layer is abstracted a bit too much on a couple of the cloud platforms to be applicable to exam prep. Things like firewall rules, and setting private IPs etc are done on the platform itself rather than on the individual VMs. Plus you obviously can incur cost too, so my local lab is just fine for now.

I'm sure if I sit a GCP or AWS exam in future all of my labbing will be done on there.

 

To be honest, up until you have the CCNA its worth having real equipment, but so much of networking study can now be virtualised.

I used Eve-NG for my CCNA and now using it for my JNCIA, PacketTracer for Cisco as well as GNS3.