Home Lab – The Virtual Buddha

September 24, 2013

vSphere 5.5 QuickTip: Upgrading vCenter 5.1 to vCenter 5.5

So I did my upgrade of my new environment and began using Chrome (native Mac Browser) to access vCenter. As I was doing was I was being innodated with “Unable to create the managed object for ” kinds of errors. I thought at first it was a browser issue so I tried Safari and Firefox. Still didn’t work. So I...

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September 20, 2013

A moment of Bazinga: SQL Server and View Events configuration

This past week I’ve been working on a variety of projects, including my home lab. I’ve been wanting to have a lab I can “use and abuse” to find all the ins and outs I can for the whole Horizon suite. For me, a lot of it centers around View and its configuration. Within our Education classes a lot of...

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September 12, 2013

Home Lab Notes: Networking Face Palm Moment

Every now and again, I run into weird things that just never occurred to me. It’s that one main danger of having too much experience. You start making assumptions as to how things should be configured and how they should work (a dangerous combination at times). Today was no exception. I wanted to finally finish building my environment by having...

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August 16, 2013

YAY! I have a working home lab

It’s really cool to have this lab setup at home. I ended up doing a traditional install (DVD) of ESXi on each of the MacMinis. Trying to create bootable USBs didn’t seem to work. What’s even better is that the KVM worked like a charm, even during install. This means that if I decide to get a 3rd MacMini for...

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August 14, 2013

Figures..

I have all my bits for my home lab.. except blank DVDs. Sigh. Too many meetings today and too much work requiring me to be home to pick up even a cheap one at the dollar store so I’ll have to wait until tomorrow at some point to start the project. And the USB option is just eluding me because.....

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August 12, 2013

Home Lab: The Start

So I’ve started building a home lab. I have my MacMinis, my Gig 16-port switch, a new power surge bar and a DVI 4 system KVM (includes support for USB, sound and MIC). All that’s left is the keyboard, mouse, monitor and the new home NAS I ordered (12TB of space). From this, I’ll be able to play with pretty...