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VMware ESXi Home Lab – Intel NUC 12 (Wall Street Canyon)

10/08/2022 by Andrew Roderos 15 Comments

If you follow me on Instagram, you know that I recently installed ESXi 7 on Intel NUC 12 (Wall Street Canyon). It will join my existing ESXi hosts in my home lab I assembled in 2012, 2016, and 2020. The Intel NUC 6th generation has been showing its age. Most of my Windows VMs, if not all, are running slow now. I can still use the VMs, but it is not ideal. With that said, I decided to buy yet another Intel NUC to run ESXi on. Hardware I wanted to get …

Recovering the EdgeRouter Lite

07/06/2020 by Andrew Roderos Leave a Comment

My original EdgeRouter Lite (ERL) that I started using since March 2016 crapped out last year. Earlier this year, I received a tip about replacing the USB flash drive to recover the router. A few days ago, I tried recovering the EdgeRouter Lite. I am happy to report that the recovery was successful! This article will discuss my experience with the EdgeRouter recovery and what I did to recover it. The Issue For most of the day, I was connected to the Internet just fine. Then, …

Upgrade NUC10i7FNH to ESXi 7

04/26/2020 by Andrew Roderos 2 Comments

Note: If you're going to run EVE-NG on this host, then do not upgrade to ESXi 7.0 Looks like EVE-NG is not compatible with ESXi 7.0. Need to downgrade to ESXi 6.7U3.— Andrew Roderos (@andrewroderos) May 4, 2020 Earlier this year, I wrote an article about my new ESXi host, the Intel NUC 10 - Frost Canyon. The article covered how to install VMware ESXi 6.7 on the NUC. Since VMware released the new ESXi version, I decided to upgrade my Frost Canyon NUC to ESXi 7.0. This guide describes how …

VMware ESXi Home Lab – Intel NUC 10 (Frost Canyon)

01/19/2020 by Andrew Roderos 16 Comments

If you follow me on Instagram or Twitter, then you know that I recently installed VMware ESXi on Intel NUC 10 (Frost Canyon). It will join the existing hosts in my VMware ESXi home lab that I assembled in 2012 and 2016. While these hosts are old, they're still useful for what they currently do. Eventually, I'm going to repurpose the ESXi 2012 build and will talk about it in a future article. The ESXi 2016 build will continue to host my current virtual servers and future …

Deploying vQFX on VMware ESXi

11/12/2019 by Andrew Roderos Leave a Comment

Several weeks ago, I started deploying vQFX on our VMware ESXi lab environment. At this time of writing, Juniper still does not have OVA files for both PFE (Packet Forwarding Engine) and RE (Routing Engine). That means deploying vQFX10K is not as easy as the vMX and vSRX. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Andrew Roderos (@andrewroderos) on Sep 16, 2019 at 5:00pm PDT Since it took me a few tries, I thought I'd share the steps on how to deploy multiple vQFX10K …