Building a New Network Design for the Lab
Tune in to find out how the Wahl Network lab underwent a migration into a new network design
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 world of a home lab. Typically, we’ll chat about design, use case, and cost, with a few questions that are…
The Easy Button for Supermicro BIOS Upgrades
Supermicro makes some really amazing motherboards and are a key piece of my home lab whitebox strategy. I’m incredibly happy with the built-in IPMI and remote KVM / Media abilities that come standard with the…
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 the other pool of compute. Much like a tug boat pulling along some massive tanker, it exists as a separate…
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 heat dissipation that will radiate from the systems. These two are usually coupled together: a system that is hungry for…
vSphere Home Lab Network Configuration
I’m diving head first into a “network craze phase” of my career, in that I find the ways to plumb things into other things quite interesting and worthy of study. It is because of this…
Using VLAN Tagging with VMware vSphere [Video]
The use of VLANs are rather common in most data center environments as a method to control traffic and partition off pieces of the network. Historically, ports on an access switch or fabric extender, such…
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 a fellow blogger and sharp fellow Hans De Leenheer at the Veeam booth for a discussion on the product and…
VMware Lab Connect – Reducing Some Home Lab Pressures
I’m a big advocate of having a home lab for tinkering with various technologies related to a field of work and study. There’s something about having your hands on the gear that really helps garner…
Protecting vSphere Guests with Veeam Backup and Replication
A lot of work goes into the guest virtual machines within my home lab, so it makes sense to protect that time investment through the use of backups. Much of my lab does actual “production”…