2025 Lab Overhaul: Expanding, Upgrading, and Optimizing
As part of my ongoing efforts to evolve my home lab, the early 2025 overhaul brings a mix of exciting upgrades, optimizations, and migrations. From enhancing game server performance to…
2024 Lab Overhaul Part 3: Transforming the Lab with Proxmox, Home Assistant, and More
In this third installment of my lab overhaul series, I’ll cover some of the most significant upgrades and migrations that I’ve implemented to enhance the performance, reliability, and versatility of…
How to Prevent vCLS VMs from Landing on Temporary NFS Datastores (and Why You Should)
vCenter 7.x introduced the concept of vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS) VMs. These small, lightweight VMs ensure critical cluster services like vSphere DRS and vSphere HA continue to run in the…
2024 Lab Overhaul Part 2 – Enhancing the Smart Home and Media Experience
Introduction In the first part of this series, I covered the significant infrastructure upgrades to my home lab, including new compute hosts, a transition to TrueNAS, and a full networking…
2024 Lab Overhaul Part 1 – Expansion: New Hosts, Upgraded Storage & Networking
Introduction In the last two years, my home lab has undergone significant transformations to enhance performance, scalability, and reliability. In this post, I’ll walk you through the initial phase of…