Nick's Home Network: Current Setup (using ESXi and FreeNAS)

Goals during build process August/September 2012:
-- latest update on Jan 10, 2016

To build a server that will last at least 5 years **Did have to build a second server to run FreeNAS for storage purposes.
Allow me to backup servers and restore them quickly if needed (i.e. before patches or upgrades)
Include a workstation for myself to do light gaming with dedicated video card without using dual boot (taking advantage of hardware pass through within ESXi)
Offload some of the things I do on my laptop to a VM
Provide my current workstation laptop with an iSCSI target for the times that I need temporary storage (remove the requirement for the external storage on my laptop)
Incorporate thin clients for connecting to the VMs (looking for a free version of something like Citrix XenDesktop)

VMs:
For the most part, will configure the majority of the VMs with a minimum of 2 CPUs. The reason is to prevent future issues with kernels having to be modified to support multiple CPUs.

With all the VMs at idle, the host CPU is at about 1 Ghz and the memory used is 42 GB. I will at some point review the systems to tweak memory settings. As for CPUs, I went with at least 2 unless the server software specified one. The reason was for my 2 minimum requirement was to not have to worry about changing the kernel to support the additional CPUs with the SMP option.

Web server (Completed 2013)

CentOS 6.4
MySQL, Apache, PHP
Several PHP apps (PHPGedView, Media Wiki, PHPNuke)

2 CPU / 4 GB RAM

Management Server (Completed 2013)

CentOS 6.4
LDAP (389 DS) -- http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Main_Page
DNS (BIND)
2 CPU / 2 GB RAM

Logging Server (Completed 2015) -- http://www.splunk.com/

CentOS 6.4
Splunk (pending)
Zenoss
2 CPU / 2 GB RAM

Monitoring Server (Completed completed early 2014) -- http://community.zenoss.org

CentOS 6.4
Zenoss
2 CPU / 2 GB RAM

Windows 7 Media Processing workstation (Completed 2013)

Handbrake
AnyDVD
BluRay USB drive (physical)
2 CPU / 4 GB RAM

Windows 7 Gaming workstation (Completed 2013)

Steam / Origin with games
PCI Express ATI HD 7770
USB Sound card
2 CPU / 8 GB RAM

Storage Server (Completed 2013) -- http://www.freenas.org/ -- migrated to physical server in 2014

FreeNAS for iSCSI, NFS, AFP, CIFS, FTP, snapshots and data replication
1 CPU (limit of software from what I remember) / 4 GB memory
CIFS share for family pictures and software repository
iSCSI targets for laptop for extra storage while at home
NFS targets for Linux home directories and software repository

Linux Media Server (Completed 2013) -- http://www.plexapp.com/

CentOS 6.4
PlexMediaServer
2 TB VMDK
Samba to present movies via CIFS
2 CPU / 3 GB RAM

Windows Media Server (Completed early 2014)

UPS monitoring software (pending)
iTunes
Plex Media Server
Hauppauge Tuner (usb and pci-e)
Hauppauge WinTV Extend

2 CPU / 4 GB RAM

VoIP Server (Completed 2013) -- http://www.freepbx.org/freepbx-distro

PCI passthrough of Digium 4 port analog card (1 fxo and 3 fxs)

2 analog phones
1 fax machine (yeah! faxes!) -- August 2014

FreePBX Distro of Asterisk on CentOS
2 CPU / 2 GB RAM

VPN Server (Completed early 2014) Discontinued to use OpenVPN plugin on pfsense firewall -- http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/openvpn-als/

OpenVPN ALS (working ok, but some features are lacking)
1 CPU / 512 MB RAM

SMTP Relay / Mail host (Completed 2015 using https://www.hmailserver.com)

CentOS 6.4
Postfix
dovecot
squirrel mail
2 CPU / 2 GB RAM

pfsense firewall -- http://pfsense.org

pfsense 2.2. / latest
1 CPU / 1 GB RAM / 20 GB HDD
10 virtual NICs connecting to various ESXi vSwitches to simulate VLANs

Linux Mirror / Spacewalk Server (completed middle 2014) -- http://spacewalk.redhat.com/

CentOS 6.4
If enough room, will look at setting up a mirror for distros
Spacewalk for patch management of Linux assets
estimating 1 CPU / 1 GB RAM

Linux Tomcat Server (pending)

CentOS 6.4
To support java based apps
Looking at using PWM -- https://code.google.com/p/pwm/
2 CPU / 2 GB RAM

BOINC machines

4 Ubuntu VMs
to support 4 BOINC projects (Einstein, SETI, Folding and Milky Way)
1 CPU / 2 GB RAM
Using VM resource pool to control total consumed CPU among all the BOINC VMs

Future VMs (most of the Windows VMs I can play with at work, so haven't set those up yet)

Utilities / Play box

Fedora and/or Ubuntu
OpenFire for XMPP support
Ventrillo / Teamspeak
Other things to test / play with
estimating 1 CPU / 2 GB RAM

Lab VMs

Windows Domain Controller

Windows 2008 R2 Server
DC with DNS

SharePoint Web

Windows 2008 R2 Server
IIS / SharePoint

MSSQL

Windows 2008 R2 Server
MSSQL 2008
SharePoint Databases

Microsoft patching server

Windows 2008 R2 Server
WSUS or SMSS

Exchange

Windows 2008 R2 Server
Exchange Server 2013

NetApp Testing

NetApp Simulate ONTAP (completed late 2014)

Cisco Testing

Windows 7
GNS3

Infrastructure and Client devices:

ISP: Verizon FIOS (15/5)
Networking:

pfsense VM for main gateway, firewall, proxy, VPN, ...
Verizon FIOS ActionTek wireless G router (free with FIOS setup)

Channel 1 (Supporting all G devices on standalone SSID)

TP-Link Archer C7 AC1750 AC Gigabit Router (access point only)

Channel 6 for 2.4 (Supports AC/N devices on shared SSID)

TP-Link Archer C7 AC1750 AC Gigabit Router (access point only)

Channel 11 for 2.4 (Supports AC/N devices on shared SSID)

Current Setup (using ESXi and FreeNAS)

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