As part of my ongoing expansion of the HomeDC, I was excited to learn about the availability of the latest Quad-Core Intel NUC a few months ago. Last friday I received my first Intel NUC Skylake NUC6I7KYK. I only started setting it up this afternoon. I usually do...
Since my last major entry about my Homelab in 2014, I have changed a few things. I added a 2nd cluster based on Apple MacMini (Late 2012), on which I run my OS X workloads, VMware Photon #CloudNativeApps machines, the DevOps Management tools and the vRealize...
I’ve had a few questions about my Homelab 2014 upgrade hardware and settings. So here is a follow-up. This is just a photo collection of the various stages of the build. Compared to my previous homelabs that where designed for a small footprint, this one...
I believe that we are at a point of time where we will see a shift in the vSphere homelab designs. One homelab design, which I see as becoming more and more popular is the Nested Homelab using either a VMware Workstation or VMware Fusion base. There are already a lot...
This is just a quick follow-up on my previous “Using VSAN Observer in vCenter 5.5” post. As mentioned recently by Duncan Epping (@DuncanYB) in his blog entry Virtual SAN news flash pt 1. The VSAN engineers have done a full root cause of the AHCI controller...
