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....
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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...
HomeLab Part 1: Design Process – Low Power Designs
This post or rather this series was in my queue now for about 5-6 months. Sometimes I didn’t have time and sometimes I didn’t have passion to finalize it. During this months I created my...
HomeLab
Here you find everything about my homelab and how it evolves over the years. pre-2014 HomeLab pre-2014 2014 HomeLab Part 1: Design Process – Low Power Designs HomeLab Part 2: Design Process – Medium...
HomeLab pre-2014
I’m currently using no Cluster in my Home Lab, because my current approach is to use the minimum of electricity which is possible. The MicroServer N40L is running 2 HP VSA with 1.67 TB each....
How to restore VMs using Synology Active Backup for Business
Restoring virtual machines (VMs) is a crucial task for any homelab enthusiast or IT professional using a VMware vSphere environment. Whether due to data corruption, accidental deletions, or hardware failures, having a reliable and...
Synology DS723+ Introduction and Setup
As some of you know, I’ve been a Synology fanboy since 2014. My journey with Synology began with a single NAS for hosting my virtual machines on ESXi, and over the years, my homelab...
Running firewalls on vSphere
Everyone with a homelab runs some sort of firewall in their environment. Either as a physical box (Ubiquiti Dream Machine, Sophos SG/XG appliances, pfSense appliances, whitebox firewall) or as a virtual machine on vSphere,...