The Great Rack Migration – X10SRH-CLNF
This post continues my migration into my new rack. The X10SRH is my primary hypervisor. It holds a Xeon E5-2640v4 and is full of 32 gigabyte sticks of RAM. Fractal…
The Great Rack Migration – D1541
This post continues my migration into my new rack. As more and more parts arrived, it became time to migrate my Supermicro 5028D-TN4T. This tiny little server packs quite the…
The Great Rack Migration – D1521
As part of my continued rack migration, it was time to move the D1521. My Supermicro D-1521 host is my "whatever I need it to be" server. As I test…
The Great Rack Migration – D1518
So after a number of years labbing, I decided it's time to graduate to a rack. This is my series of posts documenting the migration. I deal with a lot…
Hacking a serial port into an EdgeRouter X
Although I'm not a huge fan of Ubiquiti stuff, some of the EdgeRouters hold a special place in my heart. The CLI isn't terrible, mostly like the VyOS CLI that…
10 gigabit inter-VLAN with a Mikrotik RB4011
Something I see pop up fairly regularly on a few of the forums, Discords, and subreddits that I hang out on is that the RB4011 is not capable of 10…
Battle of the Virtual Routers
This is going to be a bit of a long post, so I'll be brief in the intro. Over the last few years, I've become enamored with routing. As…
A New Switch for a New Day
I am constantly on the hunt for new switches. Between finding the right combination of power consumption, noise, and 10Gb, it seems like there is always something new on the…
Let’s Play with Routing – Part 1
In this series of posts, we'll be working through building a routing lab-within-a-lab featuring VyOS. If you are unfamiliar with VyOS, you can read more about it here. Over the…
Building a ZFS on Linux Fileserver
After my recent migration back to ZFS on Linux, I decided to roll my own GUI for server reporting/management. Unfortunately, as referenced in the above linked post, I recently picked…
