Welcome to the…
“12 days of Home Labs”!
Over the course of the next twelve days, we will be sharing with you some fascinating home lab projects, ideas, and tips that will take your lab to the next level. Whether you are just starting or already an experienced home labber, we have something for everyone. So buckle up and get ready to explore the wonderful world of home labs with us!
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Day 1
On the 1st day of #12DaysOfHomelabs, let’s start off on the right track and figure out what’s needed to build your home lab. 🖥️
More to come tomorrow!
- Blog by Marc Hubbert
- Video by Matt Mancini
- VMware Community Homelabs List by William Lam
Day 2
On the 2nd day of #12DaysOfHomelabs, let’s build a nested home lab! We’re going to build ESXi within ESXi 🤯
- Video by Jeffrey Kusters
- Nested ESXi Networking Requirements by William Lam
- Deployment Blog by Brandon Lee
Day 3
On the 3rd day of #12DaysOfHomelabs, let’s explore a different way of deploying a nested home lab using VMware Workstation.
- Video by Rahul Dhawan
- Video by Matt Mancini
Day 4
On the 4th day of #12DaysOfHomelabs, let’s deploy vCenter!
- Blog – vNoob
- Blog (Espanol) – Jose Ramirez
- Video by vCloudBitsBytes
Day 5
On the 5th day of #12DaysOfHomelabs, we’re dipping our toes in some automation.
- Blog by Ashutosh Dixit
- Video by Virtualtrainee
- Blog (Japanese) by Masahiro Irie
- From PowerCLI to API – Taking Your Automation Skills to the Next Level – Joe Hughes
Day 6
On the 6th day of #12DaysOfHomelabs, let’s deploy some NSX!
- Blog by Manuel Billmaier
- Blog by Brandon Lee
Day 7
On the 7th day of #12DaysOfHomelabs, let’s learn about Project Keswick!
- Blog by vNoob
- Blog by Manuel Billmaier
Day 8
On the 8th Day of #12DaysOfHomelabs, let’s slow down a little and admire what you’ve learned and built! Solid work so far and kudos for sticking with us. 👏
Before we go too far, I wanted to turn to the vCommunity for some lessons learned to help our environment and minds happy 🍵
- Lessons learned: upgrading homelab from 8.3 to 8.8 by Kristof Asaert
- Homelab Power Outage & Recovery – Lessons Learned by Brian Wuchner
- Top Home Lab Mistakes to Avoid by Brandon Lee
Day 9
On the 9th day of #12DaysOfHomelabs, let’s explore some VMware Tanzu! Go Watanabe is doing a killer job of documenting their process and I feel like we could learn a lot.
The 2nd link will point back to the inspiration of this post, where there are 12 more days of learning! 🖥️
- Blog by Go Watanabe
- #12DaysofKubernetes by Corey Romero
- Join the Tanzu Vanguard Program
Day 10
On the 10th day of #12DaysOfHomelabs, how about we deploy an Alarm Clock with PowerShell!
I love learning from Mike Nelson and I’m sure you will, too. Shout out to #vBrownBag!
Day 11
On the 11th day of #12DaysOfHomelabs, let’s create documentation and learn some Automation along the way.
- vSpeaking Podcast: Top 10 VMware Admin Tools with Pete Flecha
- Create your own with LucD and his posts/replies in VMware Technology Network (VMTN)
- RVTools – Rob de Veij
- vCheck by Alan Renouf
- vDiagram by Tony Gonzalez and Jason Hopkins
- AsBuilt Report by Tim Carman
Day 12
First off, on this 12th day of #12DaysOfHomelabs, we celebrate you, the #vCommunity for sharing your knowledge, and making it possible to make a post like this. Let’s get to learning!
This final project is Awesome. Let’s deploy an entire VCF (VMware Cloud Foundation) environment! If you meet all of the hardware requirements, I truly hope you give this a try and share your project with us.
- Self-Contained & Automated VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) deployment using new VLC Holodeck Toolkit – with William Lam
- VMware Holodeck in a #Homelab by Gareth Edwards
- Bringing VMware Cloud Foundation Holodeck to my Homelab – by Manuel Billmaier
- Holodeck Toolkit Overview (Video)
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