Introduction

Documenting my experience running SMB-grade infrastructure for testing systems & integration of enterprise technologies

Primary Features

• VM & Container hosting
• Router with intranet, network segmentation, & thorough firewall rules
• NAS
• Windows Workstation VM
• Local Git & CI/CD tooling
• PaaS (Platform as a Service) hosting

Hardware

• 32 Threads (8 cores * 2 (hyperthreading) * 2 cpus)
• 64GB of RAM
• 128GB SSD for booting and critical VMs (router, NAS)
• 2TB HDD scratch disk for VMs
• 6TB of WD Red drive space, on a PCIe LSI HBA (Host Bus Adapter, similar to a RAID card)
• Dual NICs
• My Windows Workstation VM has some of its own hardware, including a graphics card