New Server Network Rack for Home Virtualization Lab Environment
One of the side projects that I have been working on in the past few days has been migrating away from my old style “bread rack” for the home lab…
Tag: home lab
NSX-T 2.4 Compute Manager is Already Registered with Other NSX Manager Error
In working in the lab with the new release of NSX Data Center 2.4 for the past few days, I have ran into a few little issues that are worth…
VMware TestDrive added to VMUG Advantage Subscriptions
Every post that you read about VMUG Advantage from vExperts in the community is how great a value it really is. This is due to the fact that for the…
Create a VMware vSAN 6.7 U1 Nested ESXi Lab
For those who may not be running VMware vSAN in a home lab using physical hosts, or who are running VMware vSAN on physical hosts for “production” but who want…
Create Samsung NVMe SSD RMA Return Request Online
As I had recorded in a previous blog post, I had a Samsung EVO 960 cache drive fail in my home lab VMware vSAN cluster. Since the drive was still…
Installing and Configuring Palo Alto PA220 Home Lab Firewall
I have been running a new Palo Alto PA-220 on a TAP interface mirroring my WAN traffic coming into the home lab and loving the visibility to applications that I…
VMware Site Recovery Manager SRM added to VMUG Advantage
I am all about learning products and technologies. Technologists however need access to products to become proficient in using them. I have covered the VMUG program in many previous blog…
Automating a Home Lab Windows Server with Chef
In a previous post, Basic Chef Workstation and Server Installation and configuration, we took a look at how to get up and running in a basic sense with a working…
VMware vSAN Learning Resources
With the wealth of resources available on the Internet, we all have a ton of learning resources at our fingertips when taking a technology and pulling it apart to see…
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…