As requested here are some (larger) pictures of the home network lab. Once I find some spare time Phase 2 will begin which will include replacing the spinning disks in the x86 servers to SSD’s and moving to using vSphere essentials licencing. A licenced version of VMware ESXi will enable me to move to automated
Here is an overview of the Home networking lab setup. You might ask why even have a home lab these days? You can build a fairly grown up enterprise grade topology using virtulization? Agreed, especially if you have high spec workstation or choose a cloud provider for the compute. Why I built a home lab
I was approached recently by friend requesting some help with a very difficult situation. A member of their family had sadly passed away. The deceased was a husband and father of two young children. My friend was trying to assist the wife of the deceased with various financial issues that arise when a someone passes away. The
I’ve spent many years working in operational roles supporting complex architectures. Almost everyone one of them had a high degree of Technical debt. Network architectures that have been poorly designed, do not scale well or too complicated to support without an armada of highly trained and skilled engineers. This picture I came across on twitter
Solarwinds posted something on twitter recently, a picture of a T-Shirt which had printed “I find your lack of backups disturbing”. Being a star wars fan myself this did make me chuckle. I don’t have a great deal of experience with storage other than providing connectivity for storage platforms to the network. Since a recent
I recently replaced my faithful and much loved Toyota Celica with a Lexus IS 250. The Celica had a manual gear box, a noisy but superb 1.8L VVTi ‘with lift’ engine which was naturally aspirated (no turbo). At 190 BHP the engine delivered over 100BHP per Litre of engine capacity which put’s some higher priced
