Starting a new business(Homelab) is not an easy task. Part of the tasks that might fall into your area. The IT infrastructure for a new Business is challenging. Budgets are generally small, Skills are expensive, time is tight and requirements are ever changing. a Lot of startups might choose to go directly to the cloud. […]
In the final installment of this series I would like to go thru some of the software used in my homelab and how they are used. The following few posts I will go thru the Setup and Building of all the solutions mentioned here. I started with ESXi 7U2 deployed on all 4 of my […]
For my Homelab Network Conceptual Design I split my Home into two Zones, each behind its own firewall. On the Home side I would segregate Devices in to 3 Categories. Dodgy – This would mean devices I do not not trust at all, so any IOT device which I do not have control over. They […]
The design of my new home network design was guided by the requirement for Internet stability and Segregation between HomeLab and Home Network as far as possible. Home Networking Design I decided to have my internet come into my Firewall for the Home Lab. This was to ensure that when I do decide to Expose […]
I will split the Bill of Material between what is used for my House and what is used for my Lab. These two are related but I tried keeping them separate as far as possible. I also reused as much of the Hardware I already own and for which the resale value is really low. […]
After Multiple bad Homelab builds I sat down this time to look at what I Really need and also what fits my Budget and most importantly what my Family Will accept a a Minimum Viable Product. As my Homelab will form part of my home network and there will inevitably be some crossover between the […]
My homelab history started about 7 years ago. My first homelab had little design considerations. Maybe about a week or so of reading blogs and watching some video’s before I decided to go for Intel NUC Systems. The initial build would consist of 3 Core i3 NUC’s with 32GB ram each and no internal Storage. […]