For building a virtualization home lab, this is the last video tackling the hardware installation.
This is the follow-up of the video #3 on RAM installation and case preparation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLzwoNDy3IQ
In the beginning of the video a detailed description is presented on the steps of building in the Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5 motherboard into the Fractal Design Define XL R2 Black Pearl EATX case. The functionality of the spacers between the motherboard and the case, and some tricks of how to install these spacers are being provided.
The lack of IPMI or iLO functionality is being explained, since here a cheap PC-grade motherboard is being employed instead of a server-grade board. If you install a PCI-e video card, make sure that you put it into an electronically PCI-e x 16 slot, because they use lots of power.
The build uses three quad gigabit HP NC364T network cards, which will serve as interfaces for virtualized routers in GNS3 as bindings to real Cisco switches, and as network ports in virtualized KVM virtual machines.
Finally, two SSDs are built in, which serve as system disk for the KVM hypervisor, and disk for the virtual machines.
Storage: SanDisk 128GB SSD for the system disk + 256GB Crucial SSD for VMs.
35