VMware After Broadcom
Three years after Broadcom bought VMware: what changed for licensing and home labs, why 90% of surveyed customers are looking at alternatives, and where the lab went.
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10GbE and Storage Server Upgrades
Since the swap over to my new 4U storage server ZION it has already had a number of upgrades and I have used it quite heavily.
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ZION - 4U Unraid Storage Server
I am excited to reveal my latest 2020 custom server build - ZION. See my previous planning post for Zion here.
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2020 Home Lab Upgrade (Unraid 4U)
It's a new year, and that means it's time for some home lab upgrades! The last few upgrades I did were some hardware hacks to my old Thecus N5550's to support…
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unRAID on Thecus N5550 with 6 drives
This post is specific to owners of the Thecus N5550 but will apply to almost all of the Thecus NAS lineup as well.
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Disaster strikes as NAS3 crashes
This past weekend we had a power brownout for about 4 hours. This caused my servers to fail-over to battery power.
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Home Lab Updates: AC Unit, Failed Drive on NAS1
I've been meaning to make a post about all the recent changes to my home lab but I've been quite busy. I've also done some more work on the backend of the…
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Reducing Home Lab Power Usage
I have come to the conclusion that in 2017 I will need to down scale my home lab in order to reduce power & cooling usage.
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Firewall Swap & Windows Telemetry Data
I recently switched over from Sophos UTM to Untangle NG for my personal use firewall at home. During the process I basically had to rebuild all of my firewall…
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Virtual Firewall and Networking - Planning Guide
This is a planning guide on how to create a robust, redundant, virtual network for your home-lab environment including a virtual firewall.
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Firewalls for Home Use
A question I see often is what firewall is the best for a home/residential environment? Before I get into that, we must realize that the majority of non…
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Home Labs: Remote Access and Security
I am sure that most who have a lab environment in their home also have a way of remotely accessing it - either from at work, with friends or family, vacation,…
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Storage Refresh 2016 - Time to Build! (Part 2)
The hard drives have arrived today from NCIX and it's now time to build it out to finally increase the storage capacity in my home lab.
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New ESXi Server Build - VMH02 Replacement
This build was originally meant to be a remote ESXi server for my parents place, but I've ended up liking this new build so much I'm going to have to keep it…
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Changes to the Home Lab Directory
Hello readers, I have made a few tweaks to the home lab directory and the submission form based on some feedback I have received.
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Web-Based IP Address Management - phpIPAM
For those of you still using a spreadsheet for tracking IP addresses - it's time to graduate! A couple of months ago I was looking around for free web based…
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