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Recent items include:

  • Veeam Backup & Replication 13 - Hardened Immutable Home Lab
  • 3 more homelab projects to try this weekend (May 29 - 31)
  • Part 3 Deploying a Dual-Homed Jump Server for Secure Nested Lab Access

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ithinkvirtual.com /1 week ago

Veeam Backup & Replication 13 - Hardened Immutable Home Lab

<p>Welcome back, friends! It’s been a bit since I dropped a home lab post, but I’ve been heads-down on something</p>

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howtogeek.com /2 days ago

3 more homelab projects to try this weekend (May 29 - 31)

Stop re-downloading Windows updates on every PC—set up a local cache server instead

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vcloud-lab.com /4 weeks ago

Part 3 Deploying a Dual-Homed Jump Server for Secure Nested Lab Access

<p>In this series to access nested ESXi lab I need a Jump Server, which I will setup one using this</p>

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howtogeek.com /3 weeks ago

I built my first homelab from secondhand gear, and it taught me more than a new NAS ever could

Everyone thinks they need an expensive NAS to start a homelab (they're wrong)

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e27.co /1 week ago

The rise of homelabs: Running your own AI server at home

In the battle between Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, a quiet contender is silently encroaching on the battlefield. The homelab, a computing space previously reserved for the...

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androidauthority.com /4 days ago

I manage my entire home lab using Telegram and Discord and it’s the coolest thing ever

Telegram notifications and one-tap updates made my home lab easier to manage.

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blog.ipspace.net /1 month ago

Worth Reading: Lab as Code (containerlab and netlab)

@sjhloco wrote an excellent in-depth description of how you can use containerlab and netlab to manage your labs as code. He also documented a few netlab shortcomings (one of which...

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howtogeek.com /1 month ago

I tripled my power bill building a massive home server before realizing two cheap NAS units are better

3 reasons your homelab needs two NAS devices, not just one

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vstellar.com /1 week ago

VCF 9.1 Home Lab Series – Part 2: High-Level Design

<p>Welcome to part 2 of the VCF-9.1 home lab series. The previous post in this series discussed the platform capabilities.</p>

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vstellar.com /1 week ago

VCF 9.1 Home Lab Series – Part 3: Pre-Deployment Planning

<p>Welcome to part 3 of the VCF-9.1 home lab series. The previous post in this series discussed the VCF 9.1</p>

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fojta.wordpress.com /2 weeks ago

Downscaling VCF Automation 9.1

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">My <a href="https://fojta.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/deploying-vcf-9-in-a-minilab/">VCF homelab</a> runs on GMKTec...

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vstellar.com /1 week ago

VCF 9.1 Home Lab Series – Part 1: Introduction

<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">VCF 9.1 was released last week and created quite a buzz in the VMware community wor...

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vstellar.com /1 week ago

VCF 9.1 Home Lab Series – Part 4: VCF Offline Depot

<p>Welcome to part 4 of the VCF-9.1 home lab series. The previous post in this series discussed the pre-deployment planning</p>

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williamlam.com /1 month ago

Automating Lab Optimizations for Post-Deployment of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)

After deploying a new VMware Cloud Foundation environment in my lab, I typically apply a set of post-deployment configurations across

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fojta.wordpress.com /2 weeks ago

Building Nested Labs in VCF Automation 9.1

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">About two years ago I wrote <a href="https://fojta.wordpress.com/2024/07/19/building-nested-labs-in-vmware-cloud-director/&quo...

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opvizor.com /1 month ago

Testing vSphere and Proxmox Integrations With vcsim and mock-pve-api

<div class="hs-featured-image-wrapper"> <a href="https://opvizor.com/blog/testing-vsphere-and-proxmox-integrations-with-vcsim-and-mock-pve-api" title...

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vstellar.com /1 week ago

VCF 9.1 Home Lab Series – Part 7: Deploy Workload Domain

<p>Welcome to part 7 of the VCF-9.1 home lab series. The previous post in this series discussed setting up network</p>

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habr.com /2 weeks ago

Дорожная карта домашнего мини-ПК в 2026: что развернуть, в каком порядке, и зачем — план апгрейда от инфраструктурщика

Каждый месяц с карты списываются деньги за подписки. Spotify, Яндекс Плюс, Notion, Obsidian Sync, Google One — суммы небольшие по отдельности, в сумме набегает заметно. Параллельно...

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vstellar.com /1 week ago

VCF 9.1 Home Lab Series – Part 5: Management Domain Bringup

<p>Welcome to part 5 of the VCF-9.1 home lab series. The previous post in this series discussed setting up an</p>

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blog.ipspace.net /1 month ago

Generate Partial Device Configurations with netlab

At ITNOG 10, I’ve seen something that I haven’t seen in a very long time: a mini-Interop-style physical lab using a dozen devices from different vendors. The network core was a lea...

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vladan.fr /1 month ago

How-to Update Lab with XCP-NG and Xen Orchestra built from sources

<p>A couple of months ago I installed a lab (a nested virtual lab running under VMware Workstation) with XCP-NG and</p>

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howtogeek.com /2 weeks ago

Your old gaming PC is the ultimate homelab NAS

This is why I turned my old gaming PC into a home server instead of buying a NAS

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fojta.wordpress.com /1 week ago

VCF 9.1 in a Minilab

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This is follow up to my previous blog post <a href="https://fojta.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/deploying-vcf-9-in-a-minilab/"...

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howtogeek.com /1 month ago

This is the one Raspberry Pi project I leave running 24/7 in my homelab

Any Raspberry Pi will do to start, even a Pi Zero.

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