Generac Advanced Wireless in-home Remote Generator Monitor
Monitoring your home automation and devices across the home network is a great way to ensure your devices are functioning correctly. Many have invested in a home generator as standby…
Author: Brandon Lee
Brandon Lee is the Senior Writer, Engineer and owner at Virtualizationhowto.com, and a 7-time VMware vExpert, with over two decades of experience in Information Technology. Having worked for numerous Fortune 500 companies as well as in various industries, He has extensive experience in various IT segments and is a strong advocate for open source technologies. Brandon holds many industry certifications, loves the outdoors and spending time with family. Also, he goes through the effort of testing and troubleshooting issues, so you don't have to.
Rancher Desktop v1.0 Features Installation and Configuration
The world of Kubernetes and especially Kubernetes development is a fascinating one with many different solutions and tools available for running Kubernetes locally on your Workstation. I have written several…
NAKIVO Backup – Synology NAS Installation Configuration and Features
There is no shortage of cybersecurity threats. New risks seem to be uncovered daily/weekly and keep organizations struggling to keep up with patching the security vulnerabilities. Take Log4j for example.…
Proxmox iSCSI target to Synology NAS
Not long ago, I wrote a quick blog post detailing how to install Proxmox inside a VMware virtual machine. However, to really play around with the hypervisor, it is great…
Rufus Alternative for Linux and Windows installing ISOs – Ventoy
Most of you are familiar with the Rufus utility that is a great way to “burn” an ISO to a USB key for installing various OS’es. It works great, and…
iSCSI Synology VMware Configuration step-by-step
One of the lab additions made in the past couple of weeks is a new Synology DS1621xs+ 6-bay NAS device. I have been wanting to add a NAS device for…
Pihole Local DNS Records synchronized from Active Directory
If you use Pi-hole in your home network, and you should, the local DNS provided by Pi-hole is a great way to house DNS services for your home network. However,…
Nested Proxmox VMware installation in ESXi
In working with clients and different environments, you will definitely see many different hypervisors used across the landscape of enterprise organizations. While I recommend VMware vSphere for business-critical enterprise workloads…
Kubernetes Bare Metal Load Balancer configuration with Nginx
Creating a new Kubernetes cluster in Portainer
Virtualization vs Containerization in 2022 home lab
I have been revisiting many of the infrastructure components and services running in the home lab environment. You can read my VMware Home Lab and Learning Goals 2022 post to…