Installing Hyper-V - Full Windows Lab

So after the past few weeks of playing around with VMWare/ESXi in my homelab, and the spotty power here due to the weather (I really...

   Sep 20, 2022     5 min read
VMware Setup Part 3 - VM Templates, Cloud-Init, Setting up the barebones, and Terraform (Again)

As a note: I am using the evaluation/trial license of VMware/ESXI (upgrading to VMUG later) currently, if you use the Free License for this portion...

   Sep 6, 2022     8 min read
VMware Setup Part 2 - Diagrams using Draw.io (Now Diagrams.net) and Documentations

One important part of setting up a #homelab, or any architecture/network infrastructure, is properly diagramming, is figuring out what direction you want to go, and...

   Sep 5, 2022     4 min read
VMware Setup Part 1 - Installing ESXI 7.03

Installing ESXI 7.03 on these HP 800 G3’s is actually much easier than I expected since I had already activated and set up the Intel...

   Sep 4, 2022     6 min read
Upgrading Homelab Hardware - Revamping and going back to VMware

So after spending the past few weeks of tinkering with Proxmox/KVM, diving into Kubernetes/K3S (building, destroying, and doing that probably 20 or so times), using...

   Sep 3, 2022     4 min read