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 overhaul. These foundational improvements paved the way for more advanced smart home and media setups. In this post, I’ll dive…
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 these upgrades, focusing on adding two new lab hosts and transitioning from a single-node Ceph-based storage solution to a more…
Now that some time has elapsed since I built new storage and compute hosts for my lab, most of the work I've been doing has been on the networking, VM, and functionality side of things, though I have made some hardware changes as well. Hardware Updates Storage: Upgraded CPU to…
Earlier in the spring, I began attempting to install and configure NSX-T and VMware Cloud Director in my lab but ran into some hiccups. Namely, my home router does not support VLANs and my lab (a Dell R720xd) is located in my guest room and is turned off every time…