I touched on this a few months back, but getting closer to actually moving ahead with it at long last. At home, I currently run a ZFS storage array (Box A) as a guest on an ESX host. I've now acquired ...

I'm looking to build a single ESXi server (Free Edition for now) for home lab usage. I know the basics of what I'll be getting (Quad-core Ivy Bridge or Haswell / 32GB mem / quad-port NIC), but storage ...

Earlier this year, I wrote that I was going to start a next-generation home lab. Alas, I haven't made any significant progress on the topic. But I did have a power outage that made me realize that my ...