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    Automate Documenting Used IP Addresses on my Network

    When you are running quite a few VMs in your home lab environment, it can get tricky to keep up with the IP address that are in use and which virtual machines you have running on which IPs. While most…

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    10 Gig Switch for Home Lab

    For quite a while now, I have been wanting to get the lab up to 10 gig connectivity especially for purposes of vMotion, vSAN, etc. Unfortunately, 10 gig ports are still relatively expensive although they have come down in recent…

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    Veeam NFR Licenses for Home Labs

    For most of us running home labs, having access to actual fully featured production software is a great way to increase skills and familiarize ourselves with software used in the industry.  Veeam has certainly taken great strides to empower those…

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    Easy SSL Certificates for Lab Environments

    In a home lab environment, we often want to test various functionality as we would use in production or otherwise. Nowadays, SSL connectivity is for the most part the standard when it comes to connecting to any type of web…

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    Change BBU and RAID Cache Settings with Avago LSI StorCLI

    We have covered the functionality before of the Avago LSI StorCLI utility and its capabilities in controlling and interacting with Avago LSI RAID controllers. Just about anything you can do from the RAID BIOS can be done from the StorCLI.…

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    Backup 3-2-1 Strategies for the Home Lab

    Many of us are running home labs and have “critical” data or VMs that we simply do not want to lose. Would we want to lose any of this data or virtual infrastructure? Each person/home lab is different and may…

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    VMUG Advantage adds vRealize Automation 7.3 Enterprise

    VMUG continues to offer a mind shattering package of value for VMUG Advantage members. The EvalExperience that comes with the Advantage membership is the hands down best cost effective way to play around with the suite of VMware products in…

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    VMware LSI SAS vs PVSCSI vs NVMe Controller Performance

    With all of the different variations of virtual controllers now available in VMware, I wanted to perform a simple test of disk performance benchmarks when using all three controllers on the same virtual machine to see if the controllers performed…

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    Configure vCenter Operations Manager Gmail Email Alerts

    For those running a Home Lab at their house on commodity consumer Internet connections, many ISPs block port 25 outbound for obvious reasons. However, what if you are running vSphere Operations Manager in your home lab environment and would like…