home lab
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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…
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VMware Site Recovery Manager SRM added to VMUG Advantage
I am all about learning products and technologies. Technologists however need access to products to become proficient in using them. I have covered the VMUG program in many previous blog posts here on VHT and have stated many times that…
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Home Lab UPS Power Management and Notifications
When operating a home lab, we often get attached enough and depend enough on their stability and resiliency that they often become like a “pseudo production” environment. With that being said, generally speaking there are definitely the basics that need…
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Asus XG-C100C 10G NIC Windows Server 2016 VLANs Jumbo Frames
Moving to 10 gig in the home lab environment, can potentially be an expensive undertaking. Ten gig hasn’t really come down as dramatically as all of us would have hoped, but things are getting better. If you are looking for…
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Automate Documenting Used IP Addresses on my Network
When you are running quite a few VMs in your home lab environment, it can get tricky to keep up with the IP address that are in use and which virtual machines you have running on which IPs. While most…
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10 Gig Switch for Home Lab
For quite a while now, I have been wanting to get the lab up to 10 gig connectivity especially for purposes of vMotion, vSAN, etc. Unfortunately, 10 gig ports are still relatively expensive although they have come down in recent…
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Veeam NFR Licenses for Home Labs
For most of us running home labs, having access to actual fully featured production software is a great way to increase skills and familiarize ourselves with software used in the industry. Veeam has certainly taken great strides to empower those…
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Easy SSL Certificates for Lab Environments
In a home lab environment, we often want to test various functionality as we would use in production or otherwise. Nowadays, SSL connectivity is for the most part the standard when it comes to connecting to any type of web…
