Today is a sad day. After just over fifteen years of having a computer lab environment at home, I have decided the time has come to decommission it. The bandwidth and energy requirements have become too much, and I can no longer justify having one in my current role. Continue reading
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My (self-inflicted) VSAN nightmare
A few weeks back I completely refreshed my homelab to include three new hosts and VMware VSAN. Despite being initially pleased with the setup, there was one job I forgot to do before configuring VSAN.
And it has been pain all the way since. Continue reading
Upping my homelab game
Recently I’ve been toying with the idea of a homelab refresh. My current Dell and Cisco hardware has performed well over the years, and is still very powerful. However new technologies such as All-Flash VSAN and Azure Stack require enterprise-level hardware such as 10GbE and vast amounts of memory. Continue reading
