Cisco iou iol images are l2 l3 images of switches and routers which helps you to practice for l3 devices with same features and functions which original devices has.

per our image naming table we have to create image folder starting with vios, lets do it. using our image table, create correct image folder, this example is for image 1. Our old blade server was IBM x3850 圆 with 4CPUs and 512GB or DDR3 RAM with 4x1TB SSDs and 1x1TB nvme(one drive per person) and it was less than $3000 total.How to install cisco ios in eve ng how to add cisco l2. Power Supply : Corsair RM1000x Gold 1000W Power Supply $300Ĭase : Phanteks Enthoo 719 D-RGB TG Full Tower Case Anthracite Grey $300 1 onboard nvme drive to carry 1x1TB drive.

Dual nvme adapters to carry 4 x 1TB nvme drive.

Storage : 5 x 1TB Samsung 980 (MZ-V8V1T0B/AM) $850 and $100 for pci-e adapter Motherboard : Supermicro MBD-H11DSI-B 900 We thought of buying parts from eBay etc and our list is as follows:ĬPU : 2 x AMD EPYC 7401 P/N PS7401BEVHCAF $500 each ($1000) This is what we were thinking(we think we are wayyy off!) Please help point us if this is looking alright, or if there is much more better alternative - or if this attempt makes no sense and we should take a completely different approach:ĮSXi 7.0.2 (older version will do as well)ĥ x VMs of Eve-ng/GNS3/PnetLab (each with 128GB of RAM) and 32 vCPUSĥ x Windows 10 management VMs (8Gb/ 4 vCPU each)įew Grafana, Graylog, Windows Server instances Now we thought, this is a good opportunity to sell that and build something that is apartment friendly(tolerable noise/wife friendly).īut as we started looking at YouTube videos, reading random articles in the Internet, we figured we are out of our depth. We had a decent blade server that we 5 were using, but due to change in circumstance, none of us 5 can put that server in our home now(too noisy - apartment dwellers). We are a group of 5 network engineers, who have set a goal of achieving CCIE in next 12-18 months.ĬCIE Enterprise(3 person), CCIE Service Provider(1 person), CCIE Datacentre(1 person). I saw a similar thread in the past(about 4 years old) on a similar topic, but I feel like we need a version 2.0 for that thread - perhaps that previous homelab on steroids!

Which is better eve ng or gns3