I tried just about everything I could find online to try and extract that IOS from the switch, but nothing worked. I was finally able to get the same IOS, because I work at a place that is able to...

I know I had said that I would stay away from older gear for a little bit, but this gear is a bit newer than 10+ years old. I was able to get 2 Cisco Catalyst C3850 48P with POE (WS-C3850-48U-S) fo...

In my current position, there is not much work for me to practice my networking skills, so I feel as if I might lose some proficiency with Cisco’s CLI and all the regular commands. I started up my ...

After that last post I really had to step back and evaluate what I was doing with my homelab. While I really enjoyed working with that Optiplex, the thought of buying more old tech (that might catc...

Let this be a warning when buying second-hand gear because the stability might not be all the way there anymore. The Optiplex 7010 caught fire! (just a few components on the motherboard started sm...

In my last post, I mentioned that utilizing an R720 24/7 for my mission critical services was: Being far too underutilized Pulling more watts when idle than I’d like I really needed it just ...

As great as having a powerful R720 as my hypervisor host, I think I’ve hit the point where it’s too much to have on 24/7. I was able to get my idle power to around 98W which is very respectable an...

Now that I have a hypervisor host with enough CPU cores and RAM to run a decent sized network simulation software, I’ve decided to take look into creating an EVE-NG VM. I wasn’t quiet sure how muc...

I have been working on setting up my new-to-me Dell Poweredge R720 to become my new hypervisor host, and with that comes not wanting to lose the past data from my previous hypervisor host. This was...

It’s been a while since my last post, but I have not stopped working on my homelab since. In fact I’ve been quiet busy with onboarding on a new job as a Network Operations Center Tech I. I was ab...