Month: July 2016

(For the introduction post : Rebuilding the Test Lab v2 ) Before getting into the actual planning let me describe the environment and restrictions. Hardware Dell 2950 w/ 2 Xeon 3GHz CPUs, 32 GB RAM, 12 TB JBOD Direct attached Software Windows 2012 R2 (full install), Hyper-V role, with Windows Deduplication running on the JBOD to keep file…

Last year I wrote an article for Powershell.org extolling the benefits of a home lab and how it didn’t cost much to build a basic one. You can read it here. That lab has done me well, but things change and needs increase and opportunities arise. The needs changing obviously is ” I want to be…