lab – Jase's Place

June 27, 2025

vSAN Witness Appliance 6.7 P01 on Workstation 15 (& Fusion 11)

by Jase McCartyJanuary 16, 2020February 16, 20200

I haven’t posted here in a while, but I figure this is the best spot a very quick post on for this given it isn’t …

Backup or Recover SPBM Profiles with PowerCLI

by Jase McCartyDecember 19, 2016February 16, 20200

I work in the lab a lot. One of the tasks that I often perform is: Blowing away my VCSA (or Windows vCenter Server), Redeploying …

vSphere 5 Lab Hosts – A Year Later

by Jase McCartyAugust 2, 2012March 6, 201317

So I have had my lab hosts for about a year. I have to say that they have done pretty well. Because of the cost …

Nested vSphere Lab in VMware Workstation – Faster/Affordable/Portable Storage Alternative

by Jase McCartySeptember 18, 2011December 30, 20114

Pre-lab days Before I had access to a lab, it was difficult to test nested vSphere configurations due the performance. With vSphere 4.1, I could …

Home Lab Hosts – Could it have been leaner? ($$$)

by Jase McCartyJuly 30, 2011August 20, 20126

I’ve had the lab running for a couple of weeks and I have made a few observations in relation to the configuration of each host. …

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