Category: Home Lab

Home Lab Stage VIII
4. March 2024

irgNET – LAB 8.0 U1

I want to start my 8.0 HomeLab U1 Update with a full lifecycle, which means that all my 13th Gen Dell PowerEdge servers have been replaced by 14th Gen Dell PowerEdge servers and my Datacenter has even grown. But that’s not all – I’ve implemented 2 new Data Protection solutions in my Datacenter – Dell PowerProtect & Cohesity and I’ve replaced my HPE 1GbE switches […]

Blog Dell Dell PowerEdge Home Lab Stage VIII
7. February 2024

irgNET – LAB 8.0

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 […]

Home Lab Stage VII VMware
9. February 2023

irgNET – LAB 7.0 U3 – VMware SD-WAN

New month; new HomeLab update! This update is about changing my WAN architecture and I will use from now on the SD-WAN solution of VMware. But – What is behind Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN)? We are not talking about a hardware addition or a software application in vSphere, but about a fundamental modification (improvement) of the WAN. Before we take a look at the GUI of […]

Dell PowerEdge Home Lab Stage VII
4. January 2023

irgNET – LAB 7.0 U2

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 […]

Dell Dell PowerEdge Home Lab Stage VII VMware vSAN
7. December 2022

irgNET – LAB 7.0 U1

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 […]

Dell Dell PowerEdge Home Lab Stage VII
15. November 2022

irgNET – LAB 7.0

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 […]

Home Lab Stage VI
1. October 2022

irgNET – LAB 6.0 U2

Welcome to Update 2 of Stage 6 of my HomeLab. Since we have completely physically converted my environment to 10GbE in the last update, the ports became scarce at some point. So a second 10GbE switch was needed, especially since I also include future expansions in Datacenter01. Everything is getting more expensive, so it’s better to purchase as a precaution. 🙂 You can see here, […]

Blog Stage VI
24. August 2022

irgNET – LAB 6.0 U1

Welcome to Update 1 of the 6th Stage of my HomeLab. Back from my vacation and in full swing. It is official guys – Datacenter 1 and Datacenter 2 are finally connected via 2x 10GbE fibre optic cables through the two Ubiquiti UniFi 8-Port 10 Gigabit SFP+ Aggregation Switches . As you can see in the picture below, there was quite a bit of work to […]

Home Lab Stage VI
22. June 2022

irgNET – LAB 6.0

Welcome to the 6th stage of my HomeLab. My entire datacenter is restored with the newest vSphere 7.0 U3e, in the meantime, I have performed DryRuns with my backup, everything is as it should be. I have removed a few services and added new ones, some services that were active before, will be implemented in the future. But let us take a look at the […]

Home Lab Stage V
19. April 2022

irgNET – LAB 5.0 U4

Welcome to the least hoped for state of my HomeLabs Stage 5 Update 4. As you will notice, I have added a lot of red icons to the drawing. Now this is the BIG DISASTER state, which happened as described here: I will be brief, it is extremely annoying and I do not wish it on anyone. Nevertheless, I am still in the rebuild process […]