Welcome to update 3 of the fifth stage of my Home Lab. The Big Disaster that happened to me actually after this update. We see everything still resting here in peace. What did I add to the Update 2? Hardware! I got a friendly donation and that is a Dell OptiPlex 9020 mSFF with Intel i5 CPU, I upgraded it a bit to 16GB Ram […]
Well I think the title is telling a lot. Unfortunately, in my main server the RAID 5 array has drifted apart due to 2 defective HDDs. First I got the information from iLO Advanced, the OnBoard Management solution of HPE, that one hard disk failed. Then I went to Datacenter 01 and exchanged the defective disk for a new one. During the rebuild, another disk […]
I wish you all a happy new year and would also like to start with a Home Lab update. Between the last and this update nothing has changed on the hardware-site, but on the software level. Two very interesting VMware products were added: VMware vRealize Automation VMware Horizon Together with my colleague Manuel Billmaier, we run a hyperconverged solution from Dell called VxRail at Computacenter, […]
Welcome to Update 1 of the major Update 5. In this episode, we now separate Site A from Site B completely with fire sections. Nevertheless, both data centers are connected via Fritz PowerLine adapters over the internal power grid. An honest opinion on my part: PowerLine adapters are not suitable for data center throughputs, since I can’t get more than 25 Mbit/s – however – […]
Welcome to the 4th major update of my home lab. In this update I’ve changed the HPE Microserver Gen8 against a HP ML310e Gen8 v2, because it can have 32 GB of Memory and it contains Intel XEON E-v3 CPU just like my DL380 Gen8 servers. In this constellation I have migrated the Veeam Backup VM to the new host, plugged in the external 2 […]
Welcome to the 2nd Update, which is actually quite large, I have added the Microserver Gen8 to the datacenter again because I still want to have a business separation between the production environment and the backup environment. From this update on we differentiate the 3 node cluster as Datacenter 1 and the standalone Microserver as Datacenter 2. I installed VMware ESXi 7.0 U1 on the […]
In this update, I added another HPE DL380p Gen8 to the cluster. The Veeam backup server was virtualized and to have some security I added a USB 3.0 hard drive from Western Digital. I assigned this to the VM via USB passthrough and made it available as a backup repository. The HPE Microserver Gen8 was sold in return and Site A now has only one […]
Welcome to the 3rd major update of my Home Lab. In this update, I took care at the hypervisor, as vSphere 7.0 was finally released. In addition, I added another one to the HPE DL380p Gen8 with similar Specs except Ram. The update from vSphere 6.7 U3 to 7.0 was very easy, both the vCenter and the ESXi could be updated without problems. The new […]
In this update we focus on my wireless network, so nothing major. However, I wanted to have a bit of an enterprise feel in my wifi environment as well. So I replaced the Fritz Repeater 3000 and the FritzBox. The FritzBox now only serves as an internet router, the wireless LAN function is turned off. On recommendation of a colleague I came across Ubiquiti Networks. […]
Following on from the major update, we start with the topic of VMware vMotion. Live migration (vMotion) in ESX allows a virtual machine to move between two different hosts. Live storage migration (Storage vMotion) enables live migration of virtual disks on the fly. For more Information: https://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-server.html & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCenter Since I purchased the larger server, I had the opportunity to finally replace the HP Microserver […]