The Kit I use for my Lab:

PHYSICAL SERVER:

HP Proliant DL360 G7

Specs:

CPU Cores: 12 CPUs x 2.666 GHz

Processor Type: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5650 @2.67GHz

Processor Sockets: 2

Cores per Socket: 6

Logical Processors: 24

Hyperthreading: Active

Number of NICs: 4

Memory: 288GB (16x16384MB @1333MHz

SWITCH:

Cisco Catalyst 3750E-48 2x10GE

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOME ROUTER:

TP-Link Archer C7 AC1750

 

POWERLINE:

TP-LINK AV1200 Gigabit Passthrough