So, my plan for this blog was to journal my adventures in homelabbing. Talk about projects I’m working on, things going on in my lab, ideas, etc. A place to keep track of what I’m doing, and maybe help someone out. I haven’t really had a chance to do that, and thus, have not really spoke about this blog. So I made some New Year’s resolutions. I had good intentions, plans, everything sorta mapped out. But then, as happens more often than not, life started well, lifing. Things got busy at work, then got busier. There started to be less and less time to do anything other than general maintenance. All my plans, out the window.
I haven’t forgotten about my plans, my wants. But I have been able to think, revise, plan, and come up with new plans and wants, expanded on ideas, etc. I’ve also made some decisions about what I want to do going forward. What does that mean? It means I will begin using my lab for planning and testing things for a business I would like to start. Time to start researching what’s needed to starting an MSP. Planning my offerings, the services I will provide. Setting up infrastructure to support it. The homelab will be a development, testing, staging, and proving playground.
This is also going to force me to start learning Proxmox, as part of my plan is running things on-prem. I really do not think I will be able to afford ESX (since they are dropping the ‘i’ in future versions and just in case some people did not know, the ‘i’ stands for Integrated. It was the first version released that was not using the RedHat Linux to boot the so-called Service Console OS (or short COS) of ESX. Once the Linux kernel loaded, it loaded the VMkernel as a module and then passes complete control over the system to it.) since Broadcom has made vSphere unaffordable. 72 core minimal, if you can even get a quote. I would have to get vSphere Foundation+vSAN Add-on, which I do not think they offer anymore. So if I wanted to use vSAN, I would have to, at a minimum VVF which would be, list about 10k (VCF would be 25k). Nutanix is just as expensive.
So yeah. More things, more planning, more posts coming soon. It’s time to get this journey started and bring everyone along for the ride!