Planning my home lab

Planning my home lab

My home lab build has been taking rather a long time to materialise. Due in part to some incomplete planning and research on my side. I originally was excited by virtuallyghetto‘s post on a Mac Mini ESX cluster using VSAN which he then later upgraded to Intel NUCs. I thought great but as I researched into how to actually build such a thing I found his posts a little lacking on details.

So a spent a few days on ITPro TV watching the VMware Certified Professional VCP5-DCV course videos and I have a much better idea of how this is going to come together. But a worry started to percolate into my conciousness…

How would I license the damn thing?

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Something about VMs

Something about VMs

I recently got inspired by one of my instructors to build a better way to host my VMs. He mentioned he built an ESXi cluster using six i7 Mac Minis which sounded totally cool to me. After some initial research, the hardware bug bit me and I decided I gotta try building one.

Then I remembered my other instructor’s advice — Information Security is a small industry and members should contribute in some way to the overall body of knowledge.

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