The Wisconsin VMUG is giving away three, yes 3 home labs at our 2015 UserCon coming up on Tuesday, April 28th. There will be one Grand Prize lab and two starter home labs thanks to your local Wisconsin VMUG, Intel and Synology.
We have two starter home labs that consists of:
- 1 Intel NUC 4th Gen Intel Core i5-4250U with Intel HD Graphics 5000
- 1 Crucial 16GB Kit (8GBx2) DDR3-1600 MT/s (PC3-12800)
- 1 Kingston Digital 120GB SSD Now V300 SATA 3 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive
- Synology Disk Station 2-Bay Network Attached Storage (DS215j)
- 2 Green 1TB Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5-inch, SATA 6 Gb/s, IntelliPower, 64MB Cache
While the Grand Prize lab consists of:
- 2 Intel NUC 4th Gen Intel Core i5-4250U with Intel HD Graphics 5000
- 2 Crucial 16GB Kit (8GBx2) DDR3-1600 MT/s (PC3-12800)
- 2 Kingston Digital 120GB SSD Now V300 SATA 3 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive
- Synology Disk Station 4-Bay Network Attached Storage (DS415+)
- NETGEAR ProSAFE GS108T 8-Port Gigabit Smart Switch 10/100/1000Mbps
- 4 of WD Green 1TB Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5-inch, SATA 6 Gb/s, IntelliPower, 64MB Cache
- A 1 year VMUG Advantage subscription including VMware EVALExperience which is perfect for home labs with it’s 365 eval licenses.
The winners of these home labs will get to enjoy some excellent hardware while not requiring a data center rack in their basement.
Here’s a post about tweaking a ESXi 6.0 image for the Intel NUC: http://t.co/NiFZzr2xMH