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
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 spent the last week or so doing some research to figure out what I want to achieve and have built up a hefty list of requirements. By the time I’ve finished this I want to have the following in my home lab: Several VMWare ESXi hosts supporting all commercial features for failover Initially just … More First ESXi Host Decided
