
🗓️ Nov 13, 2017 · 3 min read
Yesterday morning I discovered that my Synology NAS had an unexpected shutdown in the middle of the night while my homelab VMs/workloads were still running. This caused both of my Domain Controllers databases to become …

🗓️ Aug 14, 2016 · 4 min read
Create A VMFS5 Datastore On A USB Drive
Ever wondered if it was possible to use a USB Drive as a VMFS5 datastore in VMware vSphere 6.0? I sure know that I have! Not that I would like to run any VM’s on said datastore, as …

🗓️ Aug 6, 2016 · 5 min read
PernixData FVP Freedom Woes With Missing System UUID
Recently, I’ve been wanting to give PernixData FVP Freedom a run in my HomeLab Datacenter to better familiarize myself with the product and see how much of a …

🗓️ Mar 22, 2016 · 4 min read
Intel NIC Not Detected by ESXi
In this post I am going to cover a random issue I encountered after installing ESXi 6.0 Update 2 on one of my new Home Lab 2016 hosts. The actual installation of ESXi was extremely easy and …