For my Networking training lab, I have a mix of hardware and software, my hardware is old and a bit out of date, my routers have Serial connections, I could run a Frame Relay lab! However, they do what I want need to, and I will be replacing my routers at some point and adding/removing other devices.

For my hardware I have the following

1x Cisco Router

• Cisco 2611 with ASYNC-16A running as an access server for all my Cisco devices

3x Cisco Routers

• Cisco 2811

2x Cisco Switches

• Cisco Catalyst 2960 WS-C2960-24PC-S

2x Cisco Phones

• Cisco 7940 Series CP-7940G VoIP Phones

1x Dell Power Edge

• Dell PowerEdge R630

Running on my Dell Power Edge, I’m running ESXI and with that I have installed EVE-NG, CML, and windows, Windows server and a few different versions of Linux.

The reason that I have Cisco phones is because I do have a small VOIP lab setup that I like to play around with as I’ve worked with CUCM and Unity in the past and still like to do some VOIP labs and keep up with it even though my CUCM and Unity are a bit dated.