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Hi all,

My Name is NT and i`m a network engineer from Germany.
I'm currently looking into building myself a new PC to be used with Cisco CML and Eve-NG. I thought about three options and wanted to ask for the community's advice and help in choosing the right one.

Usecase:
Primary:

• Labing Cisco CCNP Enterprise and CCIE Enterprise
• EVE-NG
• CML
• Coding Python
• Network Automation
• Jupyther Notebooks

Secondary:

• Gaming (Battlefield and Anno)
• starting again xD

Current Setup:

• Thinkpad P50
• i7-6700HQ
• 32GB RAM (could go up to 64GB)

New Setups
Option1:

• Buying a used Server + not so beefy PC for gaming
• I would have to buy a Towerserver because of space problems and noise (wife would kill me xD)
• Servers are quiet expensive in Europe as far as I know

Option2:

• Intel Build
• https://pcpartpicker.com/list/NgTkV7

Option3:

• AMD Build
• https://pcpartpicker.com/list/jvVpf9

Does anyone have experience with i9 and AMD builds and do Eve-NG and CML run on them or are there any problems beside the Xrv9000?

Thank you very much for your help and guidance

Best regards
NT

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Hi Uldis,

thank you very much for your advice! While I use eve-ng on gcp at the moment this gets quiet pricy after I used my 300€ free credits... So I checked the recommended thread and I was looking into our local used server market. To be honest I'm a bit confused I checked reddit and other forums for tipps/hints and many people are talking about dell and hp server for homelabs.
I personally was not able to find a dell or hp under 1000€ there I life with at least relatively recent hardware (was looking for the suggested xeon v3/v4 cpus).

But i did find some nice supermicro offers and wanted to ask if anyone has experience with supermicro devices and if the prices are reasonable:

Server 1:
SUPERMICRO SERVER CSE-819U 2X 12C XEON E5-2690 V3 2,6GHZ 64GB - 1130€

Server 2:
SUPERMICRO SERVER CSE-819U 2X 6C XEON E5-2620 V3 2,4GHZ 64GB - 570€ (are 2 times 6 core enough for bigger labs like Cisco SD-WAN and CCIE)

Server 3: (personal favorite)
SUPERMICRO SERVER CSE-819U 2X 10C XEON E5-2650 V3 2,3GHZ 64GB - 685€

All the servers should run ESXi 7 as far as I see and will have plenty of RAM Slots to upgrade over time.

I'm thankful for any help since I do not have many experience with servers and it also will be a learning of server stuff for me with the lab.

best regards

server 1 is best

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