Building a homelab begins with equal parts excitement and ambition. Every freshly unpacked homelab server feels like a ticket to a personal datacenter sandbox; visions of pristine dashboards and automated builds dance in your head. Reality arrives quickly. What you plan to learn often gets overshadowed by what surprises you: a finicky NIC, a hidden power brownout, or an undocumented [...]
Software-defined storage (SDS) is a form of storage virtualization. It significantly improves the simplicity and flexibility of data storage management by introducing a software layer, independent from the physical storage hardware (i.e. disks and SSDs).
Join us for an informative recorded webinar about SvHCI 2.1 and its latest feature, VM import. We discuss the new capabilities in the software product including VM import. VM import enables you to move VMs with ease from a VMware environment and into SvHCI, our hyperconverged infrastructure software. A Live Demonstration of VM import We showcase how easy it [...]
A homelab is more than just a place to tinker. It's where IT professionals build real-world skills, test new ideas, and simulate infrastructure challenges in a safe, flexible environment. Whether you're exploring virtualization, learning how to manage data storage, or preparing for edge deployments, a homelab is one of the most valuable tools you can have. In this guide, we'll [...]
Join us for an informative recorded webinar about our latest SvHCI 2.0 release. We discuss the new capabilities in the software product including VM snapshots. With VM snapshots, users can take point-in-time (PIT) crash-consistent snapshots of their VMs and can rollback, if required. This recovers the VM to a previous state, which is useful in case of system failures, [...]
For many IT professionals, the homelab is where curiosity turns into capability. It’s a place to test ideas, troubleshoot new technologies, and build confidence before putting those skills into production. While it might start with a repurposed desktop and a few virtual machines, a homelab can evolve into a powerful simulation environment that mirrors the infrastructure challenges and projects found [...]
A VM snapshot is a copy of a virtual machine (VM) at a specific point in time (PIT). It captures the VM's data and state, including its memory, disk, and power. This enables administrators to perform a data rollback and revert to the previous state of the VM. VM snapshots are widely used in server virtualization to: Facilitate backup Manage rapid data [...]