You've been on r/homelab. You've seen the photos of 14-rack-server setup running all sorts of virtual machines. Maybe you have an idea of the lab you want to create, but you're not quite sure where to begin.As you may know from our previous blogposts, a homelab can be an incredible resource for hands-on learning and experimentation. But with so many options, it's not always clear what equipment...
When you consider data mirroring through RAID, Hot-Pluggable PSUs, and Hot Swappable hard drives, there is no question that Enterprise servers – with their mission-critical applications – are built with redundancy in mind.
To that end, we thought it would be helpful to share what we suggest to keep on hand in terms of spares and the basics of hot-swapping vs. hot-plugging; and hot spares vs....
If you are a seasoned veteran in the world of networking, servers, and home labs, then Virtualization or Virtual Machines (VMs) are nothing new. But if you are new to this exotic new digital world, then here are some introductory uses for Virtualization. We're focusing on servers since Virtualization is optimal for servers – they are designed modularly with the capacity to upgrade their proc...
In previous posts, we’ve looked at identifying RAM by looking at your system specs and how to identify RAM by looking at the specs on the RAM module, with an emphasis on laptop and desktop RAM.
This post will do the same exercise, but we’ll be looking at workstation and server RAM. If you are asking, “What’s the difference?” as you’ll see, workstation and server RAM has some additional featu...
In a previous post, we shared how to find compatible RAM for your computer by looking at the system specs. In this post, we’ll cover how to find compatible RAM in your system – but here we’ll take a different tact – we’ll show you how to determine what type of RAM you have by breaking down the specifications that are listed on the installed RAM modules for both laptops and desktops.
We’ll fo...
The world of IT Acronyms is unquestionably robust, and frankly, can border on the ridiculous. (For example, did you know if you say "CSS," you could be referring to Cascading Style Sheets, Content-Scrambling System, Closed Source Software, or Cross-Site Scripting?). While we're not going to pretend to describe every IT acronym and abbreviation, here are some common ones that you possibly use ...
