I'm Sargon Khizeran, I work as a Technical Account Manager for VMware. My homelab journey started originally started as wanting to gear up to buy a lab for CCNA / network admin studying, while I earned my CCNA, gaining more into virtualization once encountering VMware made me want to start with that route. I started off with running everything on just VMware Workstation on a PC, then led exploring NAS devices, that is when I purchased my first Synology DS412+ and started trying to learn vSphere/vCenter. I decided to build on my networking so I bought some Cisco L3 managed switches, from there I wanted to also ante up my server game, and wanted hands-on experience with physical servers, so I purchased Dell R610s off e-bay where I can start installing ESXi directly on the host. my networking demands grew and then began building out Ubiquiti networking in my house. This broke away from a regular Asus Wireless router..eventually I continue building on and enhancing. It's been a constantly buying parts, stocking up, and trying to learn to plan better and think of projects.
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