In this series, I’ll go over the lab environment, which I share with https://www.simplygeek.co.uk/ History: My home lab started at home with two servers and https://www.simplygeek.co.uk/ having the same setup. In 2020, the UK saw a huge increase in electricity and fuel costs, so these systems couldn’t be run 24/7 due to sheer cost. Having … Read more
Lessons LearnedHow did i fix it?Conclusion Lessons Learned: I have been using the Mikrotik CRS326-24S+2Q+ switch/router for approx 6 – 8 months and have been using it exclusively for my home lab. Over the last few months, I have been experiencing timeouts, packet drops and in general network slowness that you wouldn’t expect from a … Read more
Step one: taking a Network Interface Card inventory on an ESXi host Step Two: Collect NIC Vendor and device ID numbers: Step Three: Decode the NIC Vendor and device ID numbers into the format VID:DID SVID:SSID Example: VID = Vendor Id = 14e4 DID = Device Id = 165f SVID = Sub-Vendor Id =1028 Max SSID = … Read more