Over the last few weeks, I've been doing some spring cleaning in my home network. Whilst poking around in my datastores of my two ESXi hosts it was evident I had a case of virtual machine sprawl. It was time to be a bit ruthless and delete the

Due to the fact that my Cisco UCS M4 [https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/servers-unified-computing/ucs-c220-m4-rack-server/index.html] is such a beast of a server, it's mega loud! So I had no choice but to tuck it away in my workshop. I needed to come

Now that my Cisco UCS labs server is purring away, I have been exploring ways to automate certain tasks, for instance, being able to power the server using Tapo P110 Wifi enabled power sockets [https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-Tapo-Monitoring-Required-P110/dp/B097YBXHTW/ref=sr_1_1?adgrpid=126376539782&gclid=

My Cisco UCS lab server is nicely tucked away in my workshop as it's super loud! I didn't want to have to keep going outside to power the server on and off, especially when it's cold and wet. I did some research on a

Now that I have VMware ESXi installed on my Cisco UCS C240 [/cisco-ucs-esxi-usb/] lab server, I'm moving on to the fun stuff! So the first job I needed to do was install EVE-NG pro within ESXi 7.0, buy a license and fire it up and start building

Yesterday I bought a VMUG advantage membership [https://www.vmug.com/membership/vmug-advantage-membership/] so that I can use the 365 day evaluation licenses. Next stop ESXi vSphere 7 USB Installation on my new UCS C240 M4 lab server. I downloaded the iso and fired up Rufus [https://rufus.ie/en/

Over the last few weeks, I've been having a few frustrating technical problems with my home lab setup. I decided to bite the bullet and pulled the trigger on a used Cisco UCS C240 M4 [https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/servers-unified-computing/ucs-c240-m4-rack-server/index.html] server

For 12 years I owned my own business, I was a self-employed Network Security Consultant, it was evident that owning a lab environment to design solutions, perform proof of concepts, and replicate customer environments was really important to me. I didn't have the luxury to attend regular technical

Just recently I had the need to move my Palo Alto Networks lab Virtual machines to another hard drive on my Windows 10 PC,  The disk was slowly but surely  running out of space. To be honest It's a pretty straight forward task, never the less I thought