Introduction In the part 1, part 2 and part 3 of this blog I looked at my reasons for setting up a quite meaty SAN in my home lab for my ESX infrastructure and went through part selection. Over the last couple of weeks most of the parts have arrived and I’ve started the build. … More SAN for Homelab – Part 4 – Starting the Build
Introduction In the first two part 1 and part 2 of this series I covered the ground of what I wanted to use a SAN for in my environments and what I actually needed. This time I’ll look at the finite details of exactly what I’m buying to build it. Hardware Selection I have spent … More SAN for Homelab – Part 3
Introduction In part 1 I covered the subject that I was looking at building a SAN for my homelab. Last year I built a homelab ESX using a single drive to store the data and I’ve been looking at moving this to something more resilient. I’ll pick-up where I left off – deciding exactly what … More SAN for Homelab – Part 2
Introduction A decade ago I used to work as a software engineer at Hewlett-Packard in the team that wrote the support utilities for their enterprise storage. It was pretty cool as part of my role involved managing our lab which consisted of plenty of racks of kit worth in excess of a million dollars to … More SAN for Homelab – Part 1
I was doing some work on my ESX and setting up the Mac OS server that I started work on months ago. In the process of setting it up as a LAN software update server the disk ran out of space and needed increasing. After increasing the volume size in ESX MacOS didn’t detect the … More Resizing a Mac OS Disk after Resizing VMWare Disk
Ever since I’ve got my new ESX home lab setup I’ve been wanting to get some Mac VMs running. My wife and I have Apple laptops and desktops as well as a plethora of Apple devices in the house. Whilst they’re working fine being managed through Windows at the moment I wanted an attempt to … More Mac OS VMWare ESXi Woes
All the bits for my home VMWare lab have arrived and I’ve been building out the ESX host over the weekend. The hardware build went reasonably well apart from a few cables I needed to pop down and get from Maplin. The Build This was my first time installing VMWare ESXi 5.5 which should have … More My Home Lab ESX Host is Online
I’ve been working on a few projects recently in my spare time. Since I rarely get the chance to keep track of everything I’ve worked on I thought using a blog may be a nice way to maximise my commute time every day whilst keeping track of what I’ve been up to. Recently I visited … More Starting a Home ESX Lab
