About LabLand

Labland is a blog that i started to record projects that I have personally undertaken, along with interesting anecdotes from my experience labbing and working within the technology industry.

My Lab is comprised of two halves- one onsite, that function as my own mini “datacenter”, the other on Cloud, for publicly facing services (such as this site). The majority of my lab is setup onsite, with a room in my house being set up to host kit.

My lab’s network has a mix of Cisco, Brocade, Dell and HPE equipment. For compute, I have nodes from Dell and HPE as VMware hosts, and some intel Whitebox builds for other projects. Storage is provided by a mixture of NetApp and ZFS nodes, along with a Synology NAS for VMware and Bare-Metal backups.

My lab is mainly used to run internal services, along with projects for my professional learning and development. Every once in a while, a side project comes along, and these may end up on here too!

LabLand will hold posts on various projects, covering content such as:

• VMware products
• Cloud hosting
• Containers and Kubernetes
• Hardware systems and modifications
• Networking and Fiber Channel

All posts on this site are my opinion only, and do not represent those of my employer. No content on this site will be sponsored or paid-for, unless explicitly stated on the article. Linked items from third party sites may have affiliate codes that generate revenue to allow the continued funding of this site.