Virtualization, Cloud, DevOps, Reviews
VMware has one of the coolest technologies in something called Enhanced vMotion Compatibility. It helps ensure that you can migrate virtual machines across different hosts with differen CPU generation configurations.…
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like it does in the BIOS. There is no option to set bifurcation on the slot. It seems there is only the option to enable or…
The pfSense network firewall solution is a great free and open-source firewall that many run in their home labs or even SMB environments. PfSense has many enterprise features, and the…
Let’s look at choosing the best OS for Raspberry Pi as many options are available to download outside of the Raspberry Pi OS for your Raspberry Pi boards (Raspberry Pi…
With the recent news about VMware Workstation Pro being free for personal use, it opens up a lot of doors for using the software as a home lab platform and…
Recently, I received a sample unit of the Minisforum NAB6 mini PC from Minisforum. This is a very capable mini PC in its own right. However, I wanted to put…
There are a lot of expensive VMware vSphere monitoring tools out there from enterprise vendors that work really well and have a lot of bells and whistles to monitor VMware…
In thinking through my monitoring needs and a few projects I have coming up in mind, I wanted to spin up a fresh monitoring stack using the “Tick” stack. Let’s…
With the recent development of VMware by Broadcom announcing VMware Workstation is now free for personal use, I think this will be a great resource for the home lab for…
Working with the oVirt Node install recently re-familiarized me with the Cockpit utility and made me want to play around with it a bit more on vanilla Ubuntu Server installations.…
