Category: Home Lab

3D Printed Intel NUC Rack Mount

Post author By Matt
Post date August 8, 2024
Categories In 3d Printing, Home Lab
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The compute in my home lab consists of six Intel NUCs. I hope to describe my rationale for choosing these PCs in greater detail in a future post, but for my purposes they work well. I’m fortunate enough these days to have a closet in which I run my entire lab environment, and which will […]

“Exception occured in postInstallHook” Updating vCenter With a Custom EVC Mode

Post author By Matt
Post date March 5, 2023
Categories In Home Lab, VMware
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Follow these steps to avoid or fix the “Exception occurred in postInstallHook” error in upgrades to vCenter 7.0u3 instances with custom EVC modes.

ASIX USB NICs and A Massive Home Lab Performance Improvement

Post author By Matt
Post date February 27, 2023
Categories In ESXi, General, Home Lab
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My ESXi USB NIC storage performance was far below expectations. I finally identified the culprit. This is what I found — and how I fixed it. ASIX USB NICs vs Realtek USB NICs