Lego NUC vSAN Cluster

So .. it is time to downscale. As you may have seen, I used to have a Dell C6100 – based lab.

Now whilst that brings a lot of nice oompf, it also brings a lot of juicy and expensive electricity.

My lab installations – well the VMs itself – are quite extensive and I was looking for a solution which I can leave running 24/7 without jeopardising my marriage 🙂

I came across a post from William Lam, basically going through a configuration of a few NUCs to build a vSAN cluster.

So I intended to copy that. With one little exception – I want to build all that into a nice case made of lego.

Now Nicholas Farmer has done that already – you can see his Lego EVO Rack HERE.

I want to take it a bit further though.

On this picture you can see that basically only the NUCs were enclosed, including a little switch

Picture Copyright : Nicholas Farmer (I THINK)

Once you add all the cables (power, network etc.) you still end up with a ‘messy behind’ 😀

So I will try to enclose the lot – still ensuring cooling etc. – and I don’t really care how big it gets. If it is getting too big – I will just use it as monitor stand – which I will likely do anyway 😀

I split the build process into several articles, don’t want people having to scroll ages to get to the good bits.

So there we go: