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Home Lab (2025)

robwillisinfo — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 23:10:14 +0000

It’s been a while since I’ve made a video, and even longer since I’ve shown my home lab setup! I’ve been doing some cleaning and thinking about upgrades, so I figured now would be a good time to show where everything currently stands.

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Manually Updating the Firmwares on a Dell PowerEdge R610

robwillisinfo — Mon, 24 Dec 2018 03:44:47 +0000

Updating firmwares yet again… Shortly after the last time I posted on updating firmwares on Dell PowerEdge R610, I found out that Dell dropped support for all 11G servers from the SUU package along with the Lifecycle controller packages which basically broke the entire method I posted. However all hope is not lost, and the […]

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Home Lab Cooling Upgrade!

robwillisinfo — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 03:24:14 +0000

In this video I show off my latest project – Upgrading the cooling system on my home lab in hopes of making it a little more efficient while quieting things down a bit. The original setup consisted of the following: 2 x 6″ Ducts with Fans 6″ Flexible Ducting Originally there was just a single […]

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ESXi 6.5 – Error Loading /xorg.v00 Fatal Error: 33 (inconsistent data)

robwillisinfo — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 10:13:58 +0000

The Error During a recent thunderstorm one of the ESXi 6.5 hosts in my lab environment that was not on a UPS, rebooted from a power fluctuation and when it rebooted I received the following error: Error loading /xorg.v00 Compressed MD5: d04cc03dd29bbe3fe547e9566f79674c Decompressed MD5: 00000000000000000000000000000000 As the error indicates, the file /xorg.v00 appears to be […]

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Installing VMware ESXi on an Internal USB?!

robwillisinfo — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 16:09:07 +0000

One of the things I get the most questions about with my VMware ESXi posts/videos is about installing ESXi onto USB drives and booting it from there, and that question is usually followed by the concern of someone accidentally or even maliciously removing the drive from the chassis. In the case of the Dell PowerEdge […]

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Dell PowerEdge R610 Review – Virtualization On The Cheap

robwillisinfo — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 14:28:05 +0000

One of the things I always find myself telling anyone wanting to build out a home lab, is that it does not have to be expensive. The Dell PowerEdge R610 is a prime example of this and in this case I was able to pick up a matching pair of decently spec’d R610s that are […]

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Home Lab Setup (2017)

robwillisinfo — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 15:51:15 +0000

In this post and video I give a quick run down of my Home Lab – everything from the rack itself, to the hardware and the basics of what everything is being used for. I started this project towards the end of 2012 with a single Dell PowerEdge 2950 GII and was hoping to teach […]

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Installing and Configuring VMware vCenter 6.5 (VCSA)

robwillisinfo — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 13:35:24 +0000

In this third and final part of my VMware series, I go over all of the basics of getting the VMware vCenter 6.5 Server Appliance up and running. Everything that I show in the video can be done with the evaluation version of vCenter, which gives you up to 2 months of time to play […]

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Installing VMware vSphere ESXi 6.5

robwillisinfo — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 13:27:14 +0000

In this video I go over all of the basics of getting up and running with my favorite hypervisor, VMware vSphere ESXi 6.5. Here is a quick run down of everything covered: Where to install ESXi, hard drive or USB drive? Creating a bootable USB drive with the VMware ESXi ISO image and Rufus Booting […]

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What is VMware vSphere ESXi and vCenter?

robwillisinfo — Sat, 08 Jul 2017 12:36:57 +0000

In this video I give a quick break down of some of the key features and differences between VMware vSphere ESXi 6.5 and VMware vCenter 6.5. I also give a quick demonstration of what it looks like when both ESXi and the vCenter Server Appliance are fully booted and sitting at the console screen. Lastly, […]

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