
🗓️ Oct 12, 2026 · 9 min read
With the management domain upgraded in Parts 1 to 5, this final part covers the cleanup tasks that round out the upgrade, and then the workload domain. (As always, the series overview has the environment and …

🗓️ Oct 10, 2026 · 7 min read
With NSX Manager and vCenter upgraded in Part 4, it’s time for the hosts. Part 5 covers the ESX host upgrade with vLCM image-based remediation, and then completing the NSX upgrade. My management domain …

🗓️ Oct 5, 2026 · 20 min read
In Part 1 I upgraded VCF Operations to 9.1, watched the old Fleet Management appliance decommission itself, and let the Cloud Proxy auto-upgrade along the way. With the operations layer on 9.1, next up is SDDC Manager …

🗓️ Oct 1, 2026 · 8 min read
This is Part 1 of my VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0.2 to 9.1 upgrade series. The series overview covers my lab environment, what’s changing in 9.1, the prerequisites that gate the whole upgrade, and a cert and …

🗓️ Sep 30, 2026 · 12 min read
VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 dropped on May 12th, and since most of my focus these days lives squarely in the VCF world, I figured there’s no better way to put it through its paces than to upgrade my own lab from …

🗓️ Mar 24, 2023 · 4 min read
Intro Hey there! I’d taken a hiatus from writing as my personal life got in the way…got married, had a child, and changed employer(s), just to name a few!

🗓️ Jan 21, 2019 · 3 min read
Intro Welcome to Part 2 of my NSX-T Home Lab Series. In my previous post, I went over the installation and configuration of a Sophos XG firewall for my nested NSX-T Home Lab. In this post, I will cover the setup and …

🗓️ May 2, 2016 · 8 min read
Creating a Single-Node VSAN
Many of us homelab enthusiasts tend to build “whitebox” systems from spare PC parts and a few internal hard drives for local storage that we’ve either ordered or had laying around in order …