And before getting into the server upgrade details, I started to consolidate and optimize the space usage of my home lab; all the devices I had in the rack were short-deep appliances, between 9" deep and some of them even less. While researching, I found an interesting fact, pro audio equipment also uses the 1U …

Now its time to share the experiences I had while building my home lab. Keep in mind that I began this project back in March 2016. First, I set a group of criteria during the planing of the build of the equipment I wanted to use in the first iteration of my server. The main ones was: RAM Capacity: Because the primary …

To continue with the previous post about home labs before I started to plan and build mine, I would like to recommend a set of topics or skills to learn or improve the knowledge that I consider where very important to have when I started to build my home lab. Learning Linux If you are in TI or you plan to do it, there …

So, as I mentioned in the first post of the blog, the homelab topic is going to be frequent in this blog. And I would like to start sharing my experience of why I decided to start a home lab. There are many ways to gain or maintain knowledge, and it may be theoretical or practical, in the best-case scenario both. I …