Home Lab Alerts with a Legacy Google Apps Domain and Synology Notifications
Although the Legacy Free edition of Google Apps does not support IP white lists for SMTP relay, you can still use device authorization for Synology alerts!
Licensing Options for your vSphere Home Lab
Looking to snag VMware licenses for your home lab adventures? Check out what I'm using, plus other options that don't break the budget!
The Design Decisions Behind Selecting Meraki as a Security Appliance
It's been nearly a year since I've replaced my Untangle firewall with the MX60w from Meraki - let's see how it's been doing!
Configuring Shared IPMI Ports on Supermicro Servers for the Home Lab
Running low on network ports in your home lab? Learn how to share the IPMI connection on a Supermicro server to free up additional ports!
How to Configure a PowerShell ISE Theme and User Profile
The PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) has come a long way over the years. Here's how I prefer to set up my options and profile.
Off-Site Backup Strategy for the Home Lab
Ever wonder what I use to protect data in the lab and home? Here's my four stage backup strategy and topology!
Automating and Enforcing a Consistent vSphere Configuration
Here's a little bit of PowerShell code that can be used to enforce a consistent set of configuration values for your vSphere environment.
Building a Dashboard with Grafana, InfluxDB, and PowerCLI
Looking to get your hands dirty with Grafana? Check out my walk-through using InfluxDB and PowerCLI to build a vSphere Lab Dashboard.
Active Directory 2012 R2 Upgrade and DHCP Services Migration to Meraki
Can the Wahl Network lab survive another round of my constant fiddling? Find out in my latest Active Directory Upgrade and DHCP Migration project!
Cloud Sync to Google Nearline with Synology’s DSM 5.2 Beta
Learn how to be an early consumer of Google's Nearline storage tier via Synology DSM 5.2 beta and Cloud Sync