Learning new technologies takes two things; a time and a place to learn. This session will walk you through how to plan and build a home lab where you can learn and explore technology without the expense of a cloud environment. I will show you how I source my gear, as well as ideas to start with a small environment, a medium-sized environment and then my current lab that has multiple storage arrays, complex networking and full clusters of virtualized systems. I will cover the networking, the power, and, yes, also how to extend the home lab into the cloud.