It’s too loud!
Due to situations outside of my control, I’ve had to move my cabinet somewhere else in our home. The location…
Category: General Info
Long Absence
So, my plan for this blog was to journal my adventures in homelabbing. Talk about projects I’m working on, things…
New Year, new goals.
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything. This time of year is hard for me, and I’ve basically just been…
Upgrades and vCenter HA
So I had planned on shutting down my ESXi host that lives outside of the cluster, the one that manages…
Raspberry Pi Cluster
Since I first heard of ESXi-Fling that allowed running ESXi on ARM processers, specifically the Raspberry Pi 4. Why would…
Ghetto Homelab Bill of Materials (BOM) 08.22.2024
Name Manufacturer/Model Description esxi01 SuperMicro SuperServer CSE-836 Intel E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz 14c/28t, 12x16TB SAS HD in 2x raidz2 vdevs,…
vCenter Upgrades
VMware’s new Reduced Downtime Upgrade (RDU) mechanism for vCenter Servers minimizes downtime by deploying a new vCenter instance, then transferring data from the old appliance. The author shares their experience with this upgrade, noting its ease and success. They chose the Automated Switchover, had backups ready, and encountered minimal issues.
Depression
I don’t know what it is, or why it comes. The sadness. The grief. The pain. Out of the blue,…
Ghetto Homelab Bill of Materials (BOM) 07.09.2024
Name Manufacturer/Model Description esxi01 SuperMicro SuperServer CSE-837 Intel E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz 14c/28t, 12x16TB SAS HD in 2x raidz2 vdevs,…
Nutanix… Failure
So, there will be no Nutanix in my homelab, not for awhile. It was an utter shitshow. Let’s begin. First,…