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 […]
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 […]
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 […]