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    VMware Home Lab and Learning Goals 2022

    As we are beginning to wrap up the 2021 year, like me, you may be starting to think about the year ahead and what technologies and other skills you would like to develop. What is on your plate for the…

  • KubernetesEditing the kubernetes dashboard service for nodeport connectivity

    Kubernetes Home Lab Setup Step-by-Step

    Have you wanted to get a Kubernetes Home lab setup to start learning Kubernetes? It can be an intimidating subject if you simply start Googling around and looking at various Kubernetes documentation. However, once you put together the actual steps…

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    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 posts here on VHT and have stated many times that…

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    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 how it works and learn how to administer and operationalize…

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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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    VMware Hands On Labs Learning Resource

    All of us who are virtualization engineers are constantly trying to acquire new skills and polish the skills we already have.  If you are like me, you are looking for learning resources or trying to find good ways of test…

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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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    VMUG Advantage EvalExperience NSX package hinted

    I was excited to see that a recent update from VMUG I received a couple of days ago hinted at the possibility of VMware NSX being included in a future “package” of the VMUG EvalExperience membership.  This is exciting news…

  • home labhomelabDNS01

    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 in production.  At first, many in home labs may tend…

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    Autonetkit not working VIRL

    Recently, I decided to get my hands on VIRL which is the Virtual Internet Routing Lab software from Cisco.  Being a long time GNS3 user, I wanted to see how comparable or superior VIRL is to GNS3.  So far I…