Controlling Home Lab DNS Resolution with Windows Server 2016
Let’s face it, DNS is critical everywhere. Even in our home labs, DNS plays a major role in many services we may want or need to run as it does…
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Monitoring Home Lab Network like Production
Most of us die hard geeks are running home labs as part of the never ending learning process AND because, well, we LIKE doing it enough, we want to tinker…
Windows 10 launching browser automatically after login
I ran into a peculiar issue the other day in a lab environment where workstations that others were remoting into, were not able to remote in any longer. Well, thinking…
How to flash Avago LSI RAID controller firmware with boot disk
In working on provisioning a new Supermicro lab server that is outfitted with an Avago LSI 9380-4i4e SAS RAID controller, one of the first tasks I wanted to complete was…
Change VMware NSX Controller Settings
If you are looking into NSX especially in a lab environment, the resource requirements for the NSX virtual infrastructure is quite costly. Especially with high availability, you are looking at…
Nested VMware Mobile Home Lab
I wanted to write up a post about the specifics of my nested VMware mobile home lab, which is running on a Dell Precision Workstation laptop M4800. This post is…
Home Lab Create a DMZ VLAN
A really cool fun project I have been wanting to take on at home for a while now is to create a DMZ environment using my Cisco SG300-20 switch, VLANs,…