Hello folks,
I have been getting into Cisco networking and I'm attempting to emulate my work so I can do some labbing. Got GNS3 all setup and it's working great doing with an ASA image with a couple of Routers. So I decided to kick it up a notch and add 2 more routers to make my topology realistic. Total 4 Routers + 1 ASA firewall. yeah I thought my MBP was going to melt, the fan was blasting and it was too hot to even put it my lap, and the topology wouldn't stay up and kept going down. So now I'm wondering, what kind of hardware would someone need to run 4-5 Routers and 1 FW...or possibly even 2 Firewalls? I can't imaging once I start adding configs, it might become even more and more cpu-intesive.
These are my current specs which don't seem too bad:
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro14,3
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 6 MB
Hyper-Threading Technology: Enabled
Memory: 16 GB
At this point, I'm thinking the only way possible is customizing a PC and maybe putting 32Gigs of RAM. Anyone have any suggestions where I can get power like this? Dell? Any advice for not spending a crazy amount of money
Thank you
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