Christian’s Homelab setup # Some details on the hosts and setup: The Home Lab: 2022 Edition .
vSAN 8 Setup details: vSAN 8.0 ESA in my Home Lab
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Last updated September 26th, 2023.
VMware vSphere Infrastructure # vCenter Version: 8.0.2.00000, Build: 22385739
ESXi version: 8.0c, Build: 21493926
ESXi Hosts # ESXi Host Physical Details # ESXi Networking Configuration # Distributed Switch Description Notes Distributed Switch DSwitch01 - two uplinks (USB NICs) Port Group vMotion vusb0 Primary Uplink 1 / Standby Uplink 2 No VLAN Port Group vSAN vusb1 Primary Uplink 2 / Standby Uplink 1 No VLAN
Standard Switch Description VLAN Standard Switch vSwitch0 Port Group DMZ 150 Port Group Management n/a Port Group VM Network n/a
VMkernel Interfaces Description Notes vmk0 Management / VM Traffic / DMZ Standard Switch PGs vmk1 vMotion DSwitch01 / No VLAN vmk2 vSAN DSwitch01 / No VLAN
VMware vSAN Configuration # Setup details vSAN 8.0 ESA
Physical Network # WiFi: Ubiqity UniFi Access Points # AP Model Description 5 x UAP-AC-M Access Points
VLAN Configuration # VLAN Function VLAN ID Subnet Notes Management 11 x.x.11.0/24 vMotion 12 x.x.12.0/24 IP Range in use, VLAN not in use vSAN 13 x.x.13.0/24 IP Range in use, VLAN not in use NFS 15 x.x.15.0/24 VPN 50 x.x.50.0/24 IoT 60 x.x.60.0/24 DMZ 150 x.x.150.0/24
IP Assignments Management # Host VLAN IP Notes esxi-11 11 x.x.5.11/24 esxi-12 11 x.x.5.12/24 esxi-13 11 x.x.5.13/24 esxi-14 11 x.x.5.14/24
IP Assignments vMotion VLAN # Host VLAN IP Notes esxi-11 12 x.x.12.11/24 IP Range in use, VLAN not in use esxi-12 12 x.x.12.12/24 IP Range in use, VLAN not in use esxi-13 12 x.x.12.13/24 IP Range in use, VLAN not in use esxi-14 12 x.x.12.14/24 IP Range in use, VLAN not in use
IP Assignments vSAN VLAN # Host VLAN IP Notes esxi-11 13 x.x.13.11/24 IP Range in use, VLAN not in use esxi-12 13 x.x.13.12/24 IP Range in use, VLAN not in use esxi-13 13 x.x.13.13/24 IP Range in use, VLAN not in use esxi-14 13 x.x.13.14/24 IP Range in use, VLAN not in use
Network Attached Storage (NAS) # External Datastores # Hostname Mount Point stor-syn-01 /volume1/STOR-SYN-01-NFS stor-syn-02 /volume1/STOR-SYN-02-NFS
Infastructure Diagrams # Services & Software # This is a post in the Home Lab series. Posts in this series:
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