From the course: Building a Home IT Lab
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Home lab hardware
From the course: Building a Home IT Lab
Home lab hardware
- [Educator] After you decide what your lab needs to accomplish and how its parts should communicate, it's time to think about hardware. There's no single correct kind of computer or hardware to use in a lab. A lab is still a lab if it's a Raspberry Pi, a few desktop PCs, or a bunch of rack mount servers. A basic lab can and often does start out as a collection of older machines. Systems that may have been left behind after an upgrade or which can't keep up with new, more demanding work. As spare or outdated hardware, these systems will still often be useful for lightweight tasks, especially things like experimenting with system administration where you might only need machines to install operating systems on or change settings on rather than performing heavy computational tasks. Such machines can also be fine for fulfilling the role of a network client or other system client, though they're not as good for hosting virtual environments because they often are low on memory and CPU…
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