VMware Site Recovery Manager SRM added to VMUG Advantage
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Tag: home lab
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…
Selected host is an external witness for another vSAN Stretched cluster
As VHT readers have seen lately, I have been doing a lot of home lab work with VMware vSAN and thoroughly enjoying it. The advancements that have been made in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
