home lab
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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…
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Supermicro VMware Home Lab Automatic Power On and Power Off
Running a VMware vSphere home lab is a great way to learn and grow as a virtualization professional. I have a home lab that I have built up over the past few years with Supermicro server hardware. The Supermicro servers…
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VMware Cloud Foundation vCF 4.0 added to VMUG Advantage
I am a big proponent of the VMUG Advantage subscription as I have detailed in many previous posts. VMUG Advantage keeps getting better and better and since I have been a paying member, the price has remained unchanged. The newest…
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Supermicro VMware Home Lab
I have been making some changes and additions to the home lab recently and have added a new little machine to the mix that I will talk about. However, as most of you know if you have visited my Home…
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Prevent Domain Trust Relationship Failed with Snapshots in a Lab
If you have ever worked in a lab environment for any time period, VMware snapshots are a great feature to leverage for quick rollback and testing. As most of you already know, snapshots allow you to have a “picture” of…
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VMware Cloud Foundation added to VMUG Advantage Eval Experience
Have you heard about VMUG? Have you considered purchasing a VMUG Advantage membership? If you have wondered if VMUG is worth the very reasonable price charged for the membership, this post will hopefully help you decide one way or another.…
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New Server Network Rack for Home Virtualization Lab Environment
One of the side projects that I have been working on in the past few days has been migrating away from my old style “bread rack” for the home lab over to a proper server/network rack that consolidates everything, is…
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VMware TestDrive added to VMUG Advantage Subscriptions
Every post that you read about VMUG Advantage from vExperts in the community is how great a value it really is. This is due to the fact that for the price that you pay for a year, you increasingly get…
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Create Samsung NVMe SSD RMA Return Request Online
As I had recorded in a previous blog post, I had a Samsung EVO 960 cache drive fail in my home lab VMware vSAN cluster. Since the drive was still well within warranty, I wanted to see if I could…
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Installing and Configuring Palo Alto PA220 Home Lab Firewall
I have been running a new Palo Alto PA-220 on a TAP interface mirroring my WAN traffic coming into the home lab and loving the visibility to applications that I didn’t have with my previous firewall. Palo certainly gives you…
