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jameskilbycouk

Some ramblings usually about computers

Month: December 2022

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Category: Homelab/Networking/Storage/VMware

100Gb/s in my Homelab

Posted On December 19, 2022November 11, 2023 By James

For a while, I’ve been looking to update the networking at the core of my homelab. I have had some great results with the current setup utilising a number of DAC’s but there were a couple of things that were annoying me. Then MikroTik dropped the CRS504-4XQ-IN and if the Continue Reading

Category: Homelab/VMware/vSphere

Forcing an Upgrade to vSphere 8

Posted On December 14, 2022November 11, 2023 By James

I run a reasonably extensive homelab that is of course built around the VMware ecosystem. So with the release of vSphere 8 I was obviously going to upgrade however a few personal things blocked me from doing it until now. The vCentre upgrade was smooth however knowing that some of Continue Reading

Category: Docker/Homelab/Hosting/Kubernetes

Use Portainer in a Homelab with Github

Posted On December 9, 2022November 11, 2023 By James

Late to the party or not, I have been using containers in my lab more and more and that has led me to Portainer…. I use it for managing the docker containers on my Synology but it can also be used for managing lots of other things. In their own Continue Reading