Here’s a follow-up to my previous Homelab 2.0 post in which we are going to take a look at an alternative approach – nesting VMware ESXi VMs on an ESXi host. This approach to a nested homelab environment can be much simpler for those lucky enough to have hardware officially supported by ESXi.

As my move to Ireland was quite unexpected and unplanned, I had to sell my homelab. For the past few months I was a refugee, an outcast trying to get something done on an outdated laptop which I was jokingly referring to as mobile-lab. The decision was made to end this and get new gear…

Your lovely 4 x Intel NUC lab burned down. Your only working lab worthy (nah) device is an old i5 8GB workstation running Windows Server 2012 R2. Even though you’d never consider this previously, you now need to run your entire lab off this thing…