My hardware

Compute

Surface 8 Pro

• Purpose: Daily driver

Specs

• CPU: i5-1135G7
• Disk: 256GB
• RAM: 8GB

Desktop

• Purpose: For lab when more compute is required.

Specs

• CPU: Ryzen 9 7950X (16C, 32T)
• MB: MSI MPG X670E
• RAM: 32GB 5600Mhz
• GPU: Nvidia RTX 3070

Dell PowerEdge R720

• Purpose: Virtualization host
• OS: Harvester - Open-source hyperconverged infrastructure (harvesterhci.io)

Specs

• RAM: 256GB

OptiPlex 7040 Micro x3

• Purpose: Bare metal OCP4/Kubernetes lab

Specs

• RAM 16GB
• Disk: 1TB SSD

Networking

TLSense N5105L4

• Purpose: Firewall/Router
• OS: OpenBSD 7.4

Specs

• Network Ports: 2.5Gbit x 4
• CPU: N5105
• Disk: 128GB NVMe SSD
• RAM 8GB