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,...
Looks like I’m little bit into Lifecycle managers, but this time it’s the vRealize Lifecycle Manager (vRLCM). I’m running the vRLCM now for quite a time in my lab to play around with different...
I have this post now more than two years in my drafts and it will be really outdated after publishing but still I had to release it!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...
The Story It was approx. 6am when my little girl woke me up on Dec. 24th, the day we in Austria celebrate Christmas. Just a small side note. Unlike US and other countries in...
I bought some month ago three Gigabyte BRIX GS-BSi3HAL-6100 boxes to run vSAN on top of it in my home lab. These boxes were running 24/7 for the last couple of month without doing...
One of the not so well-known features in vSphere is the VMware Update Manager Download Service or in short UMDS. In this post I will cover what UMDS is, use-cases for UMDS, the installation and...
I was working on a blog post and I needed a nested lab for it. So I deployed one on my newly created 2 node VSAN cluster. I used the templates from the Content...
For my remote homelab access I’m using a virtual machine where the Horizon View Direct Connection plug-in is installed. I have chosen this configuration because a complete View environment only for remote accessing of...
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...