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…
Tag: homelab
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,…
Upgrades
Recently, I was looking over how much storage space I have, and more specifically, how much SSD storage do I…
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.
Unexpected Illness
Plans, why do I even attempt to make them? Whenever I plan anything, something happens. My plan to start learning…
Transitioning The Ghetto Homelab to Kubernetes using Talos Linux for Orchestration.
I, like many others run Docker in my home lab. Containers make things so much easier – not having to…
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,…