The HP C7000 is being decommissioned, in favour of something more economical to run, quieter and able to run all year round.
Ubiquiti Journey Part 2
In Home and Lab Network Infrastructure I outlined some issues I was having with the home network and how I planned to fix them. Then in Ubiquiti Journey Part 1 I went through setting up the UniFi network controller. I…
Ubiquiti Journey Part 1
Following Home and Lab Network Infrastructure, I put out a request on Twitter asking where in the UK people got their hardware from. From this, I received a list of vendors and after reviewing them, only NetXL.com had everything I…
Home and Lab Network Infrastructure
Reviewing the network infrastructure, planning a massive overhaul and improvement. Thoughts and problems.
AD Monitoring and Dashboards
Monitoring Active Directory is a vital task to detect issues before they impact users. Some older protocols are known to be insecure, so lets identify them so we can rectify them.
Upgrade ESXi/vCenter to v7
Trials and tribulations of upgrading the homelab to vSphere 7. Joys of running older hardware meant CPUs are unsupported, but there is a way around this!
Tenable Nessus deployment
Basic deployment of Tenable Nessus vulnerability scanner. Real basic and need to go back and start fixing things.
Rebuilding the home lab – Part 5
Further progression and ramblings on the rebuild of the home lab. It’s now in a state where it’s working as I would expect it to be.
Graylog central logging
I have heard a lot of good things about Graylog for central logging within an AD environment. Decided to deploy and see what’s what. The dashboards/alerts are still to come but the core is there.
Rebuilding the home lab – Part 4
Further progress on the home lab rebuild. It’s getting there. Still a little way to go though.