New Homelab - Who dis?
VMware VCF
Published on 21 January 2026 by Christopher Lewis. Words: 215. Reading Time: 2 mins.
New Year, New Homelab? Well not quite. but like a lot of the community, I’ve moved my homelab into the Minisforum MS-A2 form factor in late 2025 (prompted by Williams Lam’s reviews) and I sincerely hope 2026 will see even more content creation with my newly upgraded homelab!
What’s New?
I have added the following new hardware in my lab:
- 6 x Minisforum MS-A2 - AMD Ryzen (TM) 9 995HX
- 3 x Management Domain hosts with 128GB RAM
- 3 x Workload Domain hosts (2 with 64GB (+ Memory tiering) and 1 with 128GB (no memory tiering))
- 2 x Ubiquiti UniFi USW-AGGREGATION 8 Port 10Gb SFP+ Layer 2 Switch
If/when memory and NVMe prices stabilize/reduce I plan to upgrade the 2 x 64GB hosts to 128GB.
What’s Gone?
I have removed the two old white box Intel Skylake Xeon (4-Core) processors and the old Cisco SG200 switch and sent them to hardware heaven!
Watch this space for more VCF-related blog articles !
Published on 21 January 2026 by Christopher Lewis. Words: 215. Reading Time: 2 mins.
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