Home Lab 2016 – Part 3

April 23, 2016/ No Comments

Home Lab 2016 – Part 3 Hello all! My sincere apologies for the brief hiatus, but I am back to continue my Home Lab 2016 series. In my previous posts, I covered the components that make up my new Home Lab. In this post I will quickly cover my Storage and Network solutions that connect my […]

Configure OpenDNS on Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite

March 27, 2016/ 2 Comments

I recently picked up a new router/firewall for my home, and chose the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite (ERLite-3). This device comes with a lot of bells and whistles and if you would like more information on it, please see here.I am a huge fan of speed and security, and for this purpose I always choose to […]

Intel NIC not detected by ESXi

March 21, 2016/ No Comments

Intel NIC Not Detected by ESXi In this post I am going to cover a random issue I encountered after installing ESXi 6.0 Update 2 on one of my new Home Lab 2016 hosts. The actual installation of ESXi was extremely easy and painless (I may cover that in another post). After I had completed the installation, […]

Home Lab 2016 – Part 2

March 15, 2016/ 2 Comments

Home Lab 2016 – Part 2Welcome back for Part 2 of my Home Lab 2016 Series. I hope that you enjoyed my previous post, Part 1 from last week, where I covered the basis of my home lab and presented the Bill of Materials (BOM) for my mini-datacenter environment.Today I am bringing you Part 2 and […]

Home Lab 2016 – Part 1

March 4, 2016/ 4 Comments

Home Lab 2016 – Part 1 Having a home lab is every IT enthusiasts dream come true, and now I can finally say that I have fulfilled that dream! I previously was (and currently still am…) using a 1-node “white box” system I had built from a spare gaming machine I had laying around, running on […]