After spending a bit of time tidying up cables in my rack, I figured I’d take the opportunity to write about my current setup. Here it is in all its glory: Not the greatest picture. From top to bottom: Here’s a diagram of how it’s all connected together. Not in the diagram is a UniFi … Read more
I’ve been experimenting with VCF 9 in my homelab recently and I’ve been trying out some day 2 activities. Invariably, with homelabs you end up having to rebuild some (or all) of it as you experiment, and I found myself in that position. I do intend on writing a blog covering how my lab is … Read more
My homelab currently comprises of 3x Intel NUC Extremes (11th gen, 1x i9, 2x i7) along with 2x Xeon workstation based hosts. Whilst I like the NUCs, I’ve been wanting to replace the Xeon workstations. They started off in a Dell SFF workstation, but due to heat management issues I removed the CPUs and I’ve … Read more
I recently upgraded my Domain Controller to the Server 2025. Not long after the upgrade, I noticed I could no longer sign into vSphere with AD accounts. Under Single Sign On in vCenter Server, against my domain I saw the following error message: A vCenter Single Sign-On service error occurred Under the configuration for LDAP … Read more
With the release of HCX 4.8 comes in my opinion one of the biggest new features released since Network Extension High Availability went IA in 4.3. In previous versions for any given Compute Profile pair, while it was possible to deploy more than one Service Mesh, only the first one would be used. I previously … Read more
HCX OS Assisted Migration (OSAM for short) is a VMware tool where VMs hosted on either KVM or Hyper-V or can be migrated into vSphere. It’s designed to work at scale and can do 50 concurrent migrations per Service Mesh and will scale up to four Service Meshes; allowing up to 200 total parallel migrations. … Read more
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
VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery (VCDR) is a relatively new product, certainly compared to Site Recovery Manager (SRM) which has been around since 2007; to put that into perspective, vSphere 5.0 didn’t go GA until 2011. The basic premise of the products are similar in that we configure protected sites, recovery sites, as well as folder … Read more