My Homelab Hardware Inventory — September 2025
Explore a September 2025 homelab hardware snapshot with PowerEdge, ProLiant, Intel NUCs, QNAP storage and UniFi networking for VMware lab workloads.
Historical hardware snapshot
This post records September 2025. For the later seven-system MS-A2 design and revised network, see the September 2026 homelab architecture. Use the VCF lab guide index to choose a deployment walkthrough.
Overview
This is my September 2025 homelab hardware inventory, covering the servers, storage and UniFi networking I used for VMware workloads. I had reduced my rack footprint to lower electricity use and was using nested ESXi to run more lab environments on fewer physical systems.
I built this inventory over several years of working with servers, network-attached storage and desktops. By September 2025, I had reduced the rack footprint and was using nested ESXi environments to run multiple lab workloads on fewer physical systems.
Hardware inventory
My September 2025 hardware list consisted of:
| QNAP TS-435XeU Rackmount NAS | Marvell CN913X Quad-core ARMv8 Cortex-A72 CPU @ 2.2GHz 32GB SODIMM DDR4 2 – 1TB Crucial M.2 PCIe SSD (RAID1 Cache) 4 – 18TB Seagate Exos 7.2K HDD |
| HP Proliant DL360 Gen 9 | 2 – Intel Xeon CPU E5-2699 v4 @ 2.20GHz 24 – 64GB LRDIMM DDR4 2400MHz FlexFabric 10GB 2-Port 556FLR-SFP+ Adapter 2 – 2TB SanDisk SSD (RAID1) 3 – 4TB Crucial MX500 3D NANO SSD (RAID5) 1 – 8TB Samsung SSD (RAID0) |
| Dell PowerEdge R650 | 2 – Intel Xeon Gold 6330 CPU @ 2.00GHz 8 – 64GB DIMM DDR4 2666MHz Broadcom Dual Port 10GB Ethernet BOSS-S2 Embedded Controller w/(2) 240GB SSD (RAID1) 6 – 1.5TB NVMe PCIe SSD |
| (4) Intel NUC13ANHi7 | Intel 13th Gen Core i7-1360P CPU 2 – 32GB DDR4-3200 SODIMM 1 – 400GB Intel SSD 1 – 2TB Kingston NVMe PCIe SSD |
| (2) Intel NUC10i7FNH | Intel 10th Gen Core i7-107100 CPU 32GB DDR4-2667MHz SODIMM 1 – 480GB SanDisk SSD |
| (2) MSI Pro B760M Custom Desktop | Intel 12th Gen Core i7-12700K 3.6GHz 2 – 64GB DDR5 DIMM 10GB Dual Port Network Card 1 – 240GB Crucial 500 SSD 1 – 2TB Crucial PCIe NVMe SSD 1 – 512GB Silicon Power PCIe NVMe SSD |
| (2) MSI Pro B760M DDR4 Custom Desktop | Intel 14th Gen Core i9-14900k 2 – 64GB DDR4 DIMM 10GB Dual Port Network Card 1 – 240GB Crucial 500 SSD 1 – 2TB Samsung PCIe NVMe SSD 1 – 512GB Western Digital PCIe NVMe SSD |
| (1) Ubiquiti Dream Machine Pro | Quad-core ARM Cortex-A57 1.7GHz 4GB System Memory 16GB On-Board Storage 1 – GBe RJ45 WAN 1 – 10G SFP+ WAN 8 – GBe RJ45 LAN |
| (1) Ubiquiti Unifi USW-Pro-48 | 48 – GBe RJ45 Layer 3 Switch |
| (2) Ubiquiti Unifi US-XG-16 | 12 – 1G/10G SFP+ Ports 4 – 1G/10G RJ45 Ports |