Category: Stage IV

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 […]