Although I have previously documented my homelab, there have been some changes as well as a housemove. This is part 1 of my 2023 update. This is how it was around a week ago, and as you can see it’s a bit of a mess. The Lack ‘Rack’ was only tempoary and I’ve had it … Read more
This is a post covering some things which I regularly see in the field. I’ll endeavour to keep this updated as new releases come out. The below is currently correct (as far as I know) with HCX 4.6. Always refer to the HCX documentation for the source of truth. This is not an official VMware … Read more
I’ve been using a HP Z640 Workstation as the core of my homelab for some time. It’s been excellent – it’s quiet, it’s easy to work in, it’s certainly not slow but then it’s not going to set any records. It has become tiresome only having a single host, such as managing updates as I … Read more
I’m currently working with a customer and we are leveraging HCX’s ability to vMotion VMs between their legacy datacenter and a brand new VCF on VxRail platform. HCX doesn’t require Enhanced Linked Mode between the vCenter servers and can work back to vSphere 5.0 U3 (caveat being you require vCenter Server 5.1+ as HCX requires … Read more