home lab
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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…
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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…
