Category Archives: Lab Infrastructure

Homelab Power Outage & Recovery – Lessons Learned

Posted on March 17, 2023 by brian.wuchner

My homelab has a small UPS to help carry through short power ‘blips’ that occur from time to time — it is not sized for prolonged outages. As such, I don’t have any automation to detect/respond to these on battery … Continue reading →

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Keep it secure: Automate Skyline Collector admin password changes

Posted on March 2, 2023 by brian.wuchner

Too frequently I login to my Skyline Collector and am immediately required to change the password. Follow along with me as I explain how I figured out how to use automation to reduce the frustration of this process. The Skyline … Continue reading →

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Helpful Docker Container Images for a Homelab

Posted on February 12, 2023 by brian.wuchner

In a previous post, I described setting up a docker host for some containers that I need to run in a lab. This post will focus on a couple of those containers and how I use them. One service that … Continue reading →

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Learn how to monitor Pi-hole with vROps using the Management Pack Builder

Posted on February 2, 2023 by Andy Bidlen

Learn how to build a vROps Management Pack to collect data about your Pi-hole servers Continue reading →

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VMware Workstation lab: Photon OS Container Host and NFS Server

Posted on December 29, 2022 by brian.wuchner

In a previous post (https://enterpriseadmins.org/blog/virtualization/nested-vmware-workstation-lab-using-linked-clones/) I mentioned a nested ‘smash lab’ using VMware Workstation. This post will focus on a Photon OS VM with docker and nfs-server services enabled. Occasionally there is a service that I may temporarily need in … Continue reading →

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