VMTurbo has valued this Lab configuration at $1600 USD, and would be really nice to put your hands on it for free.

Cisco SG300-10 10-port Gigabit Managed Switch.

2x Dell 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5″ Hard Drive.

Synology DS415+ Diskless System DiskStation 4-Bay NAS.

SAMSUNG 840 EVO 250GB SATA III TLC Internal Solid State Drive.

G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 16GB (2x8G) 204-Pin DDR3 Memory.

Below is the specs of the Home Lab they are offering you a chance to win!

The lab they are offering can be a great test bench for many of the Virtualization/SDDC/Cloud product that you love to test/play with. For that reason, it seems VMturbo is giving away home labs for three lucky winners who register for their upcoming VMTurbo 5.1 Release Webinar. CommScope has developed an easy-to-use method to create detailed Visio drawings, using a dynamic drawing template. Unfortunately, maintaining your home lab up to date has proven to be not cheap.

For information on working with the New Visio Methodology, review these instructions.If you are like me, you are always looking for a new hardware to upgrade your home lab. Ive been making some Visio Stencils for the Synology NAS as they seem to be.

After downloading the stencils, please review the included instructions to get the most out of your Visio experience. Visio Stencils Design rack with Cisco router, Cisco switch, firewall Palo. Please read through the Getting Started document before proceeding. Changing the color displayed on the drawing will also change the respective data in the BOM automatically. MGS-500-XXX) but with a simple right mouse button click, it may be changed to any one of the 13 colors that are offered. For instance, an information outlet is a single shape in a stencil (e.g. panels snap to a discrete rack “U” increment) and many shapes are now re-configurable, making changes quick and easy. Shapes snap into place in an intelligent manner (e.g.

Shapes may be searched for with a partial Product Code (e.g.

Title block data is semi-automatically filled in.

Drawing layer is pre-set to allow visibility of doors or bezels to be toggled on and off.

Drawing scale is pre-set to insure compatibility with shapes from other manufacturers.

An automatic BOM report that is exportable to Excel.

Software is built-in to alert the user to any new or missing shapes and stencils.

All CommScope stencils are preloaded for immediate use.

Visio stencils for synology nas