HomeLab Part 10 – Sophos SG Appliance Replacement
I was working with Sophos SG Appliances (formally known as Astaro UTM) since 2005 (version 5.x). In the beginning I used white boxes with 2-4 NICs as my personal firewall. In January 2013 when...
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HomeLab in 2020
My homelab changed a lot since my last refresh in 2014 which you can find here. The reason for this is that my requirements for a homelab changed drastically since I joined VMware in...
HomeLab Part 9: Gigabyte BRIX s – A new challenger (in 2017)
I have this post now more than two years in my drafts and it will be really outdated after publishing but still I had to release it! My homelab needed some extension in form...
HomeLab Part 8: Cooling and AirFlow
In my last post I had a problem with the onboard 10GBit NICs. My assumption is that they were overheated and therefor failed. I read some blog posts of other blogger and some of them...
HomeLab Part 7: SuperMicro X9SRH-7TF & 10Gbit onboard NIC Problem
After running the new homelab for several month now I encounter a really annoying problem with the onboard 10GBit NICs (TX540-A2). I had the problem that an application was not correctly syncing across the direct...
HomeLab Part 6: Install most recent driver for the LSI2308 controller
After I upgraded the onboard LSI controller to firmware P19 I recognized some strang behaviour. After a few days I saw that all of the disks connected to the LSI become inactive or better said APD...
HomeLab Part 5: Upgrade LSI2308 Firmware
After building my new ESXi hosts I have to upgrade the onboard LSI 2308 firmware to IT mode so I can use it for VSAN in the future when I will get my third host....
HomeLab Part 4: Summary and Final decision
This is now the forth part of the design process and now you can imagine why it took me so long to choose an adequate design for my new homelab. All of the presented...
HomeLab Part 3: Design Process – High End Design
In Part 1 and Part 2 I covered low power designs and medium designs of my homelab design process. In this part I cover one high end design which was inspired by the builds from...
HomeLab Part 2: Design Process – Medium Designs
In Part 1 of the Homelab series I went through the low power designs. In Part 2 I will concentrate on the medium designs, which means that these designs will consume more power but also...