HOMELAB JOURNAL
My VCF Homelab Hardware Inventory — November 2025
Explore a VCF homelab hardware inventory from November 2025, including Minisforum MS-A2 hosts, PowerEdge, ProLiant, QNAP and UniFi equipment.
Historical hardware snapshot
This post records November 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 November 2025 VCF homelab hardware inventory records my move toward six Minisforum MS-A2 PCs for management and workload domains. The list is a snapshot of the equipment and roles at that stage of the lab rebuild, not a claim that every component remains current.
Hardware inventory
My November 2025 hardware inventory 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 |
| (3) MS-A2 AMD Ryzen 9 7940HX | 16 Core AMD Ryzen 9 7940Hx 2 – 64GB DDR5 5600 MHz SODIMM 1 – 500GB SK Hynix Gold P31 NVMe 1 – 1TB Samsung 990 EVO NVMe 1 – 2TB Samsung 990 EVO NVMe |
| (3) MS-A2 AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX | 16 Core AMD Ryzen 9 9955Hx 2 – 48GB DDR5 5600 MHz SODIMM 1 – 500GB SK Hynix Gold P31 NVMe 1 – 1TB Samsung 990 EVO NVMe 1 – 2TB Samsung 990 EVO NVMe |
| (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 |