I know it’s been a long time, almost 1 year (in 2 days), so it’s time for another HomeLab update. In my last HomeLab update I told you about my VMware SD-WAN / SASE solution, this time we’ll take another look at my Data Protection Server. Because I replaced it with a Dell PowerEdge T430 in November 2023. You can find the documentation of my […]
Today I noticed that my ESXi 04 displays the following information: Lost connectivity to the device naa.61xxxxxx backing the boot filesystem /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.61xxxxxx. As a result, host configuration changes will not be saved to persistent storage. So let us open a SSH session to have a look at the mentioned device by using following command: As we can see, there are some Failed Operations, to get […]
Welcome to my next HomeLab Update. Today we will talk about a new Family Member for the irgNET Datacenter. Since irgNET-Lab 5.0 update; I had a HPE ML310e v2 Gen8 as my backup/redundancy server. As the requirements for my VMware vSAN environment grew, the backup size increased and the 4 LFF slots were no longer enough. So I needed an alternative that was up to […]
As I mentioned in the last HomeLab Update, I will post all upgrades in my infrastructre monthly from now on. This time we will talk about the expansion of my VMware vSAN OSA ROBO 2-Node Cluster. My personal VMware vSAN journey started about 1 year ago: Back that time I had a usable capacity of about 3 TB, over time I have converted my single […]
It is HomeLab time again, this update comes with a BIG announcement/change! It is been a while, the last update was in August. Let us get started: I was able to get 3 Dell PowerEdge R730 servers. As you know, a General Availability of vSphere 8 has been announced. My HPE DL380 Gen8 servers and my HPE ML310 Gen8 v2 are getting on in years […]