The Current Home Lab 2026 ( Compute )

Hardware ( Compute ) – VCF v9.x

DELL PowerEdge R730XD

https://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/Dell-PowerEdge-R730-and-R730xd-Technical-Guide-v1-7.pdf

1 x Dell HBA330 Mini 12Gbps SAS HBA Controller (NON-RAID)

https://dl.dell.com/topicspdf/dell-sas-hba-12gbps_users-guide_en-us.pdf

2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2695 v4 – 18 Cores 36 Threads @ 2.10GHz

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/91316/intel-xeon-processor-e52695-v4-45m-cache-2-10-ghz/specifications.html

16 x 32GB DDR4 = 512GB RAM

Don’t have the specs available at the minute and vCenter doesn’t show it… need to check on the iDRAC.

1 x Onboard Dual Port Intel(R) Ethernet Controller XL710 for 40GbE QSFP+

https://i.dell.com/sites/csdocuments/Shared-Content_data-Sheets_Documents/en/us/Intel_Dell_X710_Product_Brief_Ethernet_Server_rNDC_XL710-QDA2.pdf

2 x Dual Port Intel(R) Ethernet Controller XL710 for 40GbE QSFP+

https://i.dell.com/sites/csdocuments/Shared-Content_data-Sheets_Documents/en/us/Intel_Dell_X710_Product_Brief_XL710_40_GbE_Ethernet_Adapter.pdf

2 x QLogic QLE2694L Quad Port 16Gb Fibre Channel to PCIe Adapter

https://www.marvell.com/content/dam/marvell/en/public-collateral/fibre-channel/marvell-fibre-channel-adapters-qlogic-qle2694-qle2694l-product-brief.pdf

1 x NVIDIA Tesla P40

https://images.nvidia.com/content/pdf/tesla/184427-Tesla-P40-Datasheet-NV-Final-Letter-Web.pdf

4 x Samsung PM963 960GB

https://www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/samsung-pm963-960-gb.d1367