home lab
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Configure vCenter Operations Manager Gmail Email Alerts
For those running a Home Lab at their house on commodity consumer Internet connections, many ISPs block port 25 outbound for obvious reasons. However, what if you are running vSphere Operations Manager in your home lab environment and would like…
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How to Signup for VMUG Advantage EVALExperience
VMUG EVALExperience is a great way to have access to the core VMware vSphere technologies as well as licensing and many other benefits for a very reasonable price. ย If you are wanting to sharpen your VMware skills for certification or…
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Samsung 960 EVO M.2 1TB NVMe in VMware Home Lab
Recently, I made some welcomed additions to my lab environment (more to come), and one of these was the addition of a Samsung 960 EVOย M.2 1TB NVMe in VMware Home Lab. ย I had high expectations of this drive and the…
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Controlling Home Lab DNS Resolution with Windows Server 2016
Let’s face it, DNS is critical everywhere. ย Even in our home labs, DNS plays a major role in many services we may want or need to run as it does in production. ย At first, many in home labs may tend…
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Monitoring Home Lab Network like Production
Most of us die hard geeks are running home labs as part of the never ending learning process AND because, well, we LIKE doing it enough, we want to tinker around with technology at home. ย With that being said, to…
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Update Supermicro BIOS using IPMI SUM
I really like the Supermicro IPMI interface for remotely performing administrative tasks as well as monitoring the health of the Supermicro server hardware. ย One of the really cool things that you can do remotely is update the motherboard BIOS firmware…
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How to flash Avago LSI RAID controller firmware with boot disk
In working on provisioning a new Supermicro lab server that is outfitted with an Avago LSI 9380-4i4e SAS RAID controller, one of the first tasks I wanted to complete was flashing the firmware to the latest version. ย There are a…
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Securing RDP access to Home Lab
One of the cool things about having a home lab is being able to reach it from anywhere. ย Of course, when thinking about how you are going to make your lab accessible from the Internet, we always have to think…
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Windows cannot be installed to this disk 4K drives
With the recent SuperMicro server build, I am utilizing Seagateย ST8000NM0065 drives. ย High density 4K drives are starting to come of age, however, there are still a few tricks required to get OS’es installed to boot from 4K. ย Starting with Windows…
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Mount Virtual Media SuperMicro IPMI
In the previous post here, I walked through the SuperMicro IPMI management interface and a few of the options that are available to administrators there for management of their SuperMicro server. ย One of the more interesting options in the IPMI…
