Homelab

End of the Lab

Sep 22, 2023

Hi readers, Today marks the end of an experience for me. Sadly, I’ve decided to cancel the rack I was renting in the datacenter. This means my lab will be no more. I will not be renewing for the VMware vExpert program. The lab is getting too costly and with lack of job security at the end of the year, I cannot afford …

Lab Update 01/08/2023 (with pictures) (hardware only)

Jul 31, 2023

This post serves as a current update on what’s running in my lab, with pictures. Let’s do the front: We see 9 servers. They are all HP ProLiant servers. From top to bottom: DL360p G8, DL380 G7, DL380p G8, DL360p G8, DL380p G8, DL360p G8, DL360p G8, DL380p G8, DL360 G6. Here’s a table, in order from top to bottom. The …

Cost savings in the Lab

Apr 15, 2023

With power pricing getting severely out of hand (well, it has been for months now), I figured I should do my part. Currently, my lab consists of four ESXi servers, two storage servers, one backup server and one personal tinkering server. My ESXi cluster has always ran on about 1.5 hosts worth of redundancy. In order to …

IRL Update Feb 5th 2022 – Hospital, transition, job, lab

Feb 5, 2022

Hi, Happy new year! Even though I am 35 days late for that. This post will be broken up into several sections, but as you can read from the title this is a real life situation update. For those who just come here for the lab update; I wanted to say that I have a dedicated post for that in the works. Hospital and …

My lab Bill of Materials

Jan 12, 2021

Hi everyone, For this post, we’re going to look into all the gear I have in my lab. Note that these are all links and prices that I paid for at the time. Let’s start with compute. I will list a table here of the servers. NOTE: This BoM is outdated and is yet to be updated pending upgrades that I'm saving up for. …

VMware Purple Screen of Death troubleshooting for random crashes with disk errors in the homelab.

Jun 4, 2020

Hi everyone, Time for a new blog post about the adventure I’ve been having for the past two days. On June 2nd, my server, a DL380G6 started to suddenly take-off. The fans were roaring at 70%, and the temperature sensor near the PCI Riser was showing 110 C. Of course this is not supposed to happen, in this blog post, I …

My current lab [Updated June 4th 2020)

May 20, 2020

Hi all! This post will be about the current state (05/20/2020 06/04/2020) of my home lab. Please keep in mind that I also have two ESXi hosts that I rent from a datacenter in Germany that I partially use for my home lab (though they are nowhere near as powerful as my home server). Here are some pictures: The black …