Home Lab Series: Mini ESXi Hosts at The Network Edge v2

by Simon Sparks · 28 January 2026

This all started when I saw that Cisco used to offer a product called SRE-V which was basically ESXi packaged up to run on their SRE.

I purchased 2 of the Cisco UCS E-160S/M3 Service Modules, these come with 2 x 32GB = 64GB of RAM and 2 x 3.49 TB 12Gbps SAS HDDs and an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU D-1528 @ 1.90GHz which is a 6 Core 12 Thread CPU and dual Intel Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T.

Router Configuration

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Links

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/ucs-e-series-servers/datasheet-c78-737707.html


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