Home Lab – Update & Diagram
For many years, I had a Dell PowerEdge 710 as the compute node of my home lab. In 2021 I finally decided to cross-grade to a cluster and reduce power consumptio...
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Icinga 2 Quick Start
My lab network has been missing monitoring for its entire existence, and a week ago, I would have considered it the only major software category not present. So...
Blog Migration / Setting Up WordPress on nginx
Recently, I have begun hosting several web services on my home network, and have a few projects I’d like to be able to host. I have been hosting my sites ...
Using HAProxy to Host Multiple Subdomains
I was recently given cause to find an alternative to Dropbox for syncing files and creating a basic backup. I wanted to host this on my own systems on my home n...
VNC through SSH Jumpbox
Work decided to send me on a trip, but I am working on projects on my home computer, that I need graphic access with. So over the weekend in preparation for thi...
Icinga Install
I would like to get in to a more SysAdmin role, so I’ve been using a home lab to try to learn new tech. So I spent a few days putting together a step-by-...
Quick Lab Update
I’ve been ignoring the blog, not the work. Took a bit more time than I would have liked, but I’ve got everything up. Well, except the switch. Not co...
New Home Lab Ordered
Well, I ordered hardware for my new lab Wednesday night. Several packages should be arriving today, but it will be Wednesday next week til the rest of the packa...
vSphere Essentials Kit
I’ve been looking into some upgrades for my home lab. I’ve talked myself out of hardware (for the minute) but started looking into vSphere improvem...