home lab
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Virtual firewall vs Physical firewall in the home lab
So, in thinking about the direction of where my home lab is headed, I find myself using less and less discrete physical devices as opposed to running things as virtual machines. As a topic of interest for my home lab…
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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 see a few of the specific learning objectives that I…
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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…
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Add a TPM card to VMware vSAN Host
Security is an extremely important part of server technology these days. With the sophistication of malicious attacks, supply chain hacks, and other risks to business-critical data, security contains several layers of protection. Security not only must be applied to software…
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VMware Home Lab Network Design
Many of us run VMware home labs and these no doubt have many different architectures and hardware configurations across the entire landscape, and that is great! There is no one single way to configure a home lab the “right way”…
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vSAN Lab on VMware Workstation: Step-by-Step
Home labs comes in many shapes and sizes. One of the first types of labs that many are able to invest in is running VMware Workstation on top of a workstation PC or even a laptop. VMware Workstation is a…
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DNS Conditional Forwarder Multiple Internal Domains Setup
I do a lot of work in the home lab environment and this includes building up Active Directory domains for various types of testing and building out of test environments. If you do build out different environments for testing and…
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Copy VMware Workstation VM to ESXi: Home Lab
When it comes to building your first home lab, there is nothing wrong with starting out with VMware Workstation. Realistically, this may be all you need. Having a decent workstation or laptop with a good bit of RAM running VMware…
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Nested ESXi Lab Build Networking and Hardware
Many who are learning VMware vSphere and those who may already work with VMware vSphere products each and every day benefit from having a lab environment. I have always been a proponent of lab environments. Even with many touting moving…
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Windows Server Home Lab Build and Configuration
I talk a lot about home labs on the site as I think they are a great way to get your hands “dirty” with learning new technology and skills from servers, networking, storage, automation, troubleshooting and many other great foundational…
