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…
Category: home lab
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
How to Signup for VMUG Advantage EVALExperience
VMUG EVALExperience is a great way to have access to the core VMware vSphere technologies as well as licensing and many other benefits for a very reasonable price. Â If you…
Samsung 960 EVO M.2 1TB NVMe in VMware Home Lab
Recently, I made some welcomed additions to my lab environment (more to come), and one of these was the addition of a Samsung 960 EVOÂ M.2 1TB NVMe in VMware Home…
Controlling Home Lab DNS Resolution with Windows Server 2016
Let’s face it, DNS is critical everywhere. Â Even in our home labs, DNS plays a major role in many services we may want or need to run as it does…