An Inexpensive HomeLab - Full Circle

I used to have a full server rack with power hungry servers, eating power, heating my house, and making way too much noise.  About 10 years ago I just couldn't afford the time and money to keep the environment going.  I decommissioned it all.  On occasion, I wish I had a non-cloud based environment to try new technologies and just play around... a lab or a sandbox would be nice.  Well, I have come full circle and will be spinning up my own, local HomeLab.  Over the next few months, I will be implementing a Ubiquti Dream Router, some Ubiquiti Switches, a Synology NAS, and a quiet, small, ESXi server on a Dell Micro.  Join me on my journey.  I haven't posted in 7 years, but that will now change.  As I implement each component in my HomeLab environment, I will share what I did, how I did it, lessons learned and suggestions.