Building a New Network Design for the Lab
Tune in to find out how the Wahl Network lab underwent a migration into a…
Designing A Home Lab? Here’s My Three Favorite Tips
I’ve had countless conversations with technology enthusiasts and professionals who wish to step into the…
The Easy Button for Supermicro BIOS Upgrades
Supermicro makes some really amazing motherboards and are a key piece of my home lab…
Three Reasons To Have A Management Cluster For Your vSphere Home Lab
The idea behind a management cluster is to form a pool of compute that manages…
Designing An Entire Rack of Home Lab Gear for 400 Watts
Two major challenges when building a home lab is figuring out the power consumption and…
vSphere Home Lab Network Configuration
I’m diving head first into a “network craze phase” of my career, in that I…
Using VLAN Tagging with VMware vSphere [Video]
The use of VLANs are rather common in most data center environments as a method…
Veeam Announces 3PAR SAN Snapshot Recovery and Dream Lab Giveaway
While at the HP Discover EMEA 2012 conference in Frankfurt, Germany, I met up with…
VMware Lab Connect – Reducing Some Home Lab Pressures
I’m a big advocate of having a home lab for tinkering with various technologies related…
Protecting vSphere Guests with Veeam Backup and Replication
A lot of work goes into the guest virtual machines within my home lab, so…
SuperMicro Advanced Features for Home Lab Servers [Video]
While it’s all good and well to talk about the advanced features that I enjoy…
The All Flash Synology DS2411+ Array
I’ve long since selected Synology to be the cornerstone piece of storage hardware in my…
Loading Up Your HP N40L MicroServer With 16GB Of RAM
For those using an HP ProLiant N40L MicroServer as a home lab for their ESXi…
Synology DS411 vSphere Home Lab Storage – Protocol Bakeoff
If you’re an owner of a Synology NAS array, you might find some value in…
Creating a Link Aggregation Group for a vSphere Lab [Video]
In this video, I review the creation of a Link Aggregation Group (LAG) on my…
A Few Pointers When Upgrading VMware View to 5.1
I recently had the opportunity to upgrade my lab’s VMware View 5.0 installation to version…
Efficient Virtual Networking Designs for vSphere Home Lab Servers
Although we’d all like to have a plethora of NICs in our physical home lab…
The HP ProLiant MicroServer N40L – VMware Home Lab Review [Video]
The newest member of my home lab collection is an HP ProLiant MicroServer, model N40L.…
Building A Green Performance Desktop
After upgrading my home vSphere lab to 2.0, which included a shift towards booting from…
Review: Supermicro ESXi 5 Whitebox Home Lab Servers
Now that my new vSphere lab is up and running, I wanted to write up…