Running AI Coding Agents Across Several Machines
How I run Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity and Muse Code across a mini PC server and a workstation: one rulebook, a router for delegated work, hard safety gates and real numbers.
Karl NyenHome Lab
Home lab architecture and hardware builds, including Unraid storage servers, network switches, Untangle firewalls, and power management.
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VMware After Broadcom
Three years after Broadcom bought VMware: what changed for licensing and home labs, why 90% of surveyed customers are looking at alternatives, and where the lab went.
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Scaling down the home lab, slightly
Since my last post about my new Zion 4U storage server I have been more and more impressed by Unraid and have started using Docker and KVM virtualization on it.
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ZION - 4U Unraid Storage Server
I am excited to reveal my latest 2020 custom server build - ZION. See my previous planning post for Zion here.
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2020 Home Lab Upgrade (Unraid 4U)
It's a new year, and that means it's time for some home lab upgrades! The last few upgrades I did were some hardware hacks to my old Thecus N5550's to support…
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NAS3 SSD Upgrade
This week NAS3 got a storage upgrade from 128GB SSD's to 500GB SSDs. NAS3 is my SSD NAS which is used for hosting virtual machines.
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New Synology DS1817+ NAS & ISP Switch
By the end of 2017 nearly all my NAS servers were close to reaching full capacity. I had already pre-decided on getting a Synology DS1817+ but it was just a…
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Home Lab Rebuild
It's been long overdue for some changes to my home lab. The latest full outage on Sept 4, 2017 due to a power brown-out had me realizing that some improvements…
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Disaster strikes as NAS3 crashes
This past weekend we had a power brownout for about 4 hours. This caused my servers to fail-over to battery power.
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Home Lab Updates: AC Unit, Failed Drive on NAS1
I've been meaning to make a post about all the recent changes to my home lab but I've been quite busy. I've also done some more work on the backend of the…
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Reducing Home Lab Power Usage
I have come to the conclusion that in 2017 I will need to down scale my home lab in order to reduce power & cooling usage.
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Firewall Swap & Windows Telemetry Data
I recently switched over from Sophos UTM to Untangle NG for my personal use firewall at home. During the process I basically had to rebuild all of my firewall…
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Virtual Firewall and Networking - Planning Guide
This is a planning guide on how to create a robust, redundant, virtual network for your home-lab environment including a virtual firewall.
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Firewalls for Home Use
A question I see often is what firewall is the best for a home/residential environment? Before I get into that, we must realize that the majority of non…
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Home Labs: Remote Access and Security
I am sure that most who have a lab environment in their home also have a way of remotely accessing it - either from at work, with friends or family, vacation,…
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Storage Refresh 2016 - Time to Build! (Part 2)
The hard drives have arrived today from NCIX and it's now time to build it out to finally increase the storage capacity in my home lab.
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New ESXi Server Build - VMH02 Replacement
This build was originally meant to be a remote ESXi server for my parents place, but I've ended up liking this new build so much I'm going to have to keep it…
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Storage Refresh 2016 - The Plan
The time has come to increase storage capacity in the home lab. I expect that before the end of this year that I will have less than 1TB of free space left on…
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Home Lab Upgrades, Network Standardization
A quick update here for May 2015: Yesterday I upgraded from a 24 Port NetGear GS724Tv3 Switch to a 48 Port Netgear GS748Tv3 switch.
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SSD Emulated Virtual Disks for Nested ESXi
I came across a gotcha scenario when trying to deploy vSAN in my home lab. When adding disks to the nested ESXi server all of the disks are detected as regular…
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