Now that I’ve moved jobs and consequently lost access to all the toys that constituted the original vSpecialistLabs, I am starting a rebuild project with vSpecialistLabsv2! This will be entirely hosted as a true ‘home lab’ (i.e. not in a DC), and will be the basis of my lab testing for the foreseeable future.
These are my posts related to the new vSpecialistLabsv2:
- Home Lab Build: vSpecialistLabs v2 So, time to update the home labs information, and yes, this time I may have overdone it a little in one or two areas. I spend most of Sunday rebuilding my home lab (christened some time ago as vSpecialistlabs v2), adding some elements, changing and tweeking some hardware, and removing other hardware I wasn’t using at ...
- Configuring QNAP for VMware iSCSI As part of the vSpecialistLabv2 set-up, I recently purchased a QNAP 459 Pro II NAS, with the purpose if connecting it via iSCSI to the physical and virtual hosts in the rest of the lab. The main part of the configuration of this device is to configure the QNAP storage for iSCSI for use with ESXi. Pre-requisites: Do ...
- Home Lab Build: vSpecialistLabsv2 Overview Now that I’ve moved jobs and consequently lost access to all the toys that constituted the original vSpecialistLabs, I am starting a rebuild project with vSpecialistLabsv2! This will be entirely hosted as a true ‘home lab’ (i.e. not in a DC), and will be the basis of my lab testing for the foreseeable future. I wasn’t very dilligent in documenting ...
- Home Lab Build: vSpecialistLabsv2 Hardware Choosing your home lab hardware can and will be a trade-off between many factors. Capacity, speed / performance, cost, intended use and physical space available all play a part in considerations for what you want vs. what you can get away with for your home lab. There are also some other factors that are maybe ...
These are my posts related to the original vSpecialistLabs:
- vSpecialist Labs: Roadmap Part Two – Roadmap In the hardware post for the vSpecialist Labs, we listed the hardware we have to play with to construct the Lab. Now is the challenge of what to do with it. Here is a scratch list of the projects we will be running in the Labs over the coming months. Status: Testing (T), ...
- vSpecialist Labs: Hardware Part One – Hardware I’ve been fortunate to get my hands on some pretty decent hardware (for a ‘home’ lab setup anyway) to build this lab. The servers are as follows: Servers: - 2 Servers @ 2 x Quad Xeon 2.0GHz / 16GB RAM - 2 Servers @ 2 x Dual Xeon 2.66GHz / 16GB RAM - 1 Server @ ...
- vSpecialist Labs: Overview So, after several months of procrastination and searching for build information, my ‘home lab’ build begins which will grow over time into the new ‘vSpecialist Labs’ sandbox infrastructure. With this, I plan to do test and research work for configurations for production deployments, as well as have an environment which we at www.vspecialist.co.uk can use ...
