Homelab 2015: Hello 10Gbps!

New year, new post documenting the home lab. I've accomplished a number of upgrades/updates since my last full roundup of the lab, so rather than posting this as another delta, I'm doing this as a full re-documentation of the environment.

Compute: VMware vSphere 5.5

• 3 x Dell R610, each spec'd as follows:
• (2) Intel Xeon E5540 @ 2.53GHz
• Hyperthreading enabled for 16 logical CPUs per host.
• 96GiB RAM
• Boot from 4 or 8GB SD card
• Dell PERC H700 6Gbps SAS/SATA HBA
• (4) 500GB Seagate Constellation.2 (ST9500620NS) SATA
• RAID5
• Formatted as local vmfs5 datastore
• (2) 240GB Intel 530 SATA SSD
• RAID1
• RDM for StoreVirtual VSA (see below)
• Quad port Broadcom BCM5709 Gigabit Copper (embedded)
• Dual port Mellanox MT26448 10GigE (8-lane PCIe), 850nm SFP+ optics
• iDRAC 6 Enterprise
• Redundant power

Storage: IP-based

• iomega StorCenter ix2-200 "Cloud Edition"
• (2) 1TB Seagate Barracuda (ST1000DM003) 7200RPM SATA
• RAID1
• (1) 1000Base-T
• LifeLine OS v3.2.10.30101
• NFS export for VMs
• 2 x Lenovo (iomega/EMC) px6-300d
• (6) 2TB Hitachi Deskstar (HDS723020BLA642) 7200RPM SATA
• RAID5
• (2) 1000Base-T, bonded, multiple VLANs
• LifeLine OS v4.1.104.31360
• 2TB iSCSI Target for VMs
• Synology DS2413+
• (12) 2TB Seagate Barracuda (ST2000DM001) 7200RPM SATA
• RAID1/0
• (2) 1000Base-T, bonded, multiple VLANs (CLI-added)
• DSM 5.1-5022 Update 2
• NFS exports:
• ISOs (readonly, managed by SMB)
• Logs
• VMs
• Synology DS1813+
• (8) 256GB Plextor PX-256M6S SSD
• RAID5
• (4) 1000Base-T
• (1) Management network
• (2) iSCSI network (multi-homed, not bonded)
• ~1.6TB iSCSI Target (block mode)
• HP StorVirtual "Lefthand OS"
• (3) ESXi Virtual Appliances, 1 on each host
• 1280GB VMDK on local storage; tier 1
• 223GB RDM on SSD volume; tier 0
• 4486.49GB Raw, 2243GB RAID1
• (2) 1TB volumes for VMs
• Thin provisioning
• Adaptive Optimization
• iSCSI network: 10GbE
• Management: 1GbE

Networking:

• (2) Cisco SG500X-24
• (4) 850nm SFP+ optics for 10GbE
• (24) 1000Base-T MDI/MDI-X
• Primary ISL: 10GbE
• Backup ISL: (1) 2x1GbE LACP LAG
• STP Priority: 16384
• Cisco SG300-28
• (28) 1000Base-T MDI/MDI-X
• (2) 2x1GbE LACP LAG for link to SG500X-24
• STP Priority: 32768
• Google Fiber (mk.1)
• "network box"
• "storage box"
• "fiber box"
• Various "dumb" (non-managed) 1GbE switches
• Apple Airport Extreme (mk.4)/Express (mk.2)

Miscellaneous:

• (4) APC BackUPS XS1500
• Internet HTTP/SSL redirection via Citrix NetScaler VPX (HA pair)
• Remote access via:
• TeamViewer 10
• Microsoft RDS Gateway
• VMware Horizon View
• Citrix XenApp

Connectivity Diagrams:

Host Configuration

Environment