
Lab Master Supermic Software Should Make
MoCA (Merced Computer Architecture) is a research lab of CSE.If higher resolution is needed,the Model PC Supermic bench micrometer has 0.000001 inch (0.025 micron) resolution. I decided to share my home lab experience as I’ve learned the hard way how to choose, finance and set up such an environment.People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware - Alan Kay. Last Christmas Santa Claus was very generous for me! I found all the stuff to build a powerful home lab under the Christmas tree. Other specialty measuring applications include: gears, shafts. P&W is accredited in accordance with the recognized International Standard ISO/IEC 17025:2005 by A2LA. The LABMASTER 1000A can also measure a wide range of specialty applications such as ID/OD bearings (radial/axial clearance), balls, shafts, optics, as well as your precision parts.
Check measurement uncertainty on a cal cert for a master wire and see what you are actually getting. The master wire is supposed to be within 0.000005'. GageCal automatically enters tolerances for taper.
SYS-E200-8D comes in a form factor similar to a box of chocolates (Mini-ITX), it has an IPMI interface, low voltage 6-core Intel Xeon, it supports 128GB of RAM, has 4 NIC (2 x 10GbE and 2x1GbE), M.2 slot for NVME SSD disk. In the lab topology we have 3 servers: 2x SuperMicro and 1x HP Proliant.After evaluation, the last one won the competition. For the time being, as we are focusing on the Proxmox/Debian, we built a simple topology: Looking forward we are planning to make the topology much more resilient, but that would a story for a different blogpost. I’ve discussed many options with Santa that could possibly suit my needs and this if what I found:Lab Topology. (resolution is 0.000010.At VMware, we have plenty of options to play with our products, including Hands-On Labs, VMware TestDrive portal, VMware Cloud on AWS and our “Suitcase Lab” build by polish SE Team 🙂Master thread plugs Plain pins/plugs, bore plugs, optical comparator Thread Wires (4 to 80) tpi 13 µin LMM, Pratt & Whitney SupermicTM, 10, gage blocks Thread Plugs (0.1 to 4) in (4 to 80) tpi 75 µin 75 µin Pratt & Whitney Supermic TM, 10, gage blocks, master thread wires Ring Gages (0.25 to Nevertheless, it’s nice to have some humming box at home for a wide range of tests, plays, and learning, not only professional ones.
After preparing your bootable ESXi and initial configuration it’s good to take a backup – strange things happen in home labs sometimes 🙂 There is a special USB Image Tool for ESXi backups and restores. For flashing USB sticks with ESXi image on Windows you can use Rufus and on MacOS X BalenaEtcher does it’s job. I failed with some other usb memory sticks so I recommend using this one not only for little size but compatibility too.
For this, I do have additional LTE router Zyxel LTE3301-M209 with a SIM, data plan and public/static IP from OTVARTA – interesting MVNO that provides you with a public IP and do not require to sign up for long term agreements (you can resign anytime with 1-month dismissal notice). The idea behind this lab was to make it portable, though, and use occasionally at the office, during workshops, conferences, customer meetings etc. Checkpoint allows you to configure most of the features in GUI which is proper for my level of experience in this area 😉Checkpoint connects to my ISP’s cable modem over the ethernet and I use it at home with a pool of 5 static, public IP addresses. It comes with an integrated switch of eight 1GbE ports and dedicated WAN/DMZ ethernet interfaces. That’s a story for another blog post though.For networking, I chose Checkpoint L-50W which is a nice combo with Wifi AP, Firewall, Router, VLAN support, QoS, VPN gateway and more.

