Absolutely this. No need to run enterprise level hardware at home. You can easily run a huge environment with 128gb of ram and an 8-core Ryzen processor. If you want to get crazy you could even get an Epyc CPU with a SuperMicro motherboard, put it into a eATX whitebox case and run silent fans with a huge heatsink and still barely use any power. You can even run all the networking OS's in VM's, either with PFSense or some other vm template or use GNS3. No need to purchase a ton of hardware.
It really makes no sense to me why people drop all this money on R710's and make their house sound like the Hartsfield-Jackson Delta Terminal.
Absolutely this. No need to run enterprise level hardware at home. You can easily run a huge environment with 128gb of ram and an 8-core Ryzen processor. If you want to get crazy you could even get an Epyc CPU with a SuperMicro motherboard, put it into a eATX whitebox case and run silent fans with a huge heatsink and still barely use any power. You can even run all the networking OS's in VM's, either with PFSense or some other vm template or use GNS3. No need to purchase a ton of hardware.
It really makes no sense to me why people drop all this money on R710's and make their house sound like the Hartsfield-Jackson Delta Terminal.