Home lab - for testing, playing and whatnot!

[tgr]

Hi guys,

 

This is actually a continuation from Twitter, a conversation I had with Niall;

 

 

I am curious how you guys' labs are put together, setup.

 

Right now I'm at a point where I don't know if I should buy an all new setup, a desktop PC - or upgrade my T520 with an SSD disk, some more RAM and then get it on...

 

 

 

 

Maybe this could start a new forum category where people could talk stuff like this - I don't know.

 

Niall, what do you say? ;-)

[anyweb]

currently the computer i use for LAB work (including pretty much all of the current CM12 series) is a HP Elitebook 8560W, with 16GB ram and core i7 2360qm (4 cores, 8 logical processors), 2 ghz,

 

it has two hard discs, one SATA 700GB (sorry Thomas, i was wrong, it wasnt a 1TB) and one 240GB SSD drive in the modular bay. I have a 1.3TB USB 3.0 disc connected also as it has a load of virtual machines running on it (i have both Configuration Manager 2007 and 2012 labs, standalone and heirarchy).

[Jeremy]

My setup is not quite as involved as Niall's is but it's similar.

 

I also have an HP 8560W with the following:

Quad Core i7-2720QM @ 2.2Ghz

14GB ram (I know, odd number)

700GB internal SATA drive

1TB External eSATA drive

 

I don't use Hyper-V though. I am using Oracle's VirtualBox and love it (Free)! I quite frequently am running 5+ VM's at a time and currently am running Niall's SCCM 2012 setup with a Central and a Primary. Working well so far!

[dylan93]

currently the computer i use for LAB work (including pretty much all of the current CM12 series) is a HP Elitebook 8560W, with 16GB ram and core i7 2360qm (4 cores, 8 logical processors), 2 ghz,

 

it has two hard discs, one SATA 700GB (sorry Thomas, i was wrong, it wasnt a 1TB) and one 240GB SSD drive in the modular bay. I have a 1.3TB USB 3.0 disc connected also as it has a load of virtual machines running on it (i have both Configuration Manager 2007 and 2012 labs, standalone and heirarchy).

 

I have almost the same setup but I run on a ASUS N53SV-SZ404V with a Core i7 2630QM and 12 GB of RAM, all my VM's are stored on a 750 GB external harddisk.