Home Lab

Unexplored Territory Ep 34 – William Lam Talks Home Labs – Christmas Special

It’s the end of the year, and everybody is winding down from a hectic year, so we wanted to give you...
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53 sec read

Dying Home Lab – Feedback Welcome

The servers in my home lab are dying on a daily basis. After four years of active duty, I think they...
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59 sec read

New Home Lab Hardware – Dual Socket Xeon v4

  A new challenge – a new system for the home lab About one year ago my home lab was expanded...
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1 min read

Home Lab Fundamentals: DNS Reverse Lookup Zones

When starting your home lab, all hints and tips are welcome. The community is full of wisdom, yet sometimes certain topics...
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5 min read

Home Lab Fundamentals: Time Sync

First rule of Home Lab club, don’t talk about time sync! Or so it seems. When starting your home lab, all...
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6 min read

Monitoring power consumption of your home lab with a smart plug

Home labs are interesting beasts, at one hand you would love to have all the compute, storage and network power available,...
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2 min read

Managing your virtual datacenter and home lab with a MAC

The majority of virtual datacenters are managed from Windows systems. When I started with virtualization I also used a windows system,...
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3 min read

DVD Store, the perfect homelab workload tool

DVD Store 2.1, a magnificent tool for all aspiring VCP/VCAP candidates. A great tool for home lab enthousiasts to understand performance...
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9 min read

When your Home Lab turns into a Home DC

A little bit over a year ago I decide to update my lab and build two servers. My old lab had...
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5 min read