Okay, okay I know I’ve just done a write-up about my home labs, and now I already start with a new version? Well, the idea for the write-up came to me since I was already thinking and working towards this new version. So this will be it! A huge upgrade for my (not so) home…
For a while now I’ve been thinking about building a new, more beefy, version of my home lab. I’m running some nested VMware labs, which require a lot of hardware. This renewal will involve, once again, replacing the underlying hardware. Thinking about this brought me back to the good old days when I bought my…
The hardware is now in the datacentre but there are various ways that the servers could be connected. This means planning the connections between the servers, from the server to the internet, and connecting power. In this blog, I’ll take you along in the design that I made on how to connect the servers. The…
On the 24th of September 2017, I’ve placed a single Dell PowerEdge R710 in the XS4ALL datacentre in Amsterdam. Now, three years later, it finally came to an upgrade. I already bought two newer servers (two Dell PowerEdge R720’s) and had them laying around since the end of 2017. Sadly, I never found the money…
