BJ300 27MHz Linear Amplifier AM-150Watts; SSB-300Watts

Buck Converter with Output Transistor Regulator powering my Cignus UV-8 @ 8.1VDC

AnyTone AT-778UV Dual-Band Transceiver (25watts)

Kenwood TM-281a VHF 2-meter 144Mhz

Cignus CG-808 VHF 2-meter 144Mhz Monoband Internal View

Icom IC-28H (2020 - Pandemic, Lockdown electronic buffs...)

Insane Compact NAS 2014 - 48TB of Network-attached Storage

Test Dev on Double Take 5.2

My prep for initial test development in my homelab was to create at least two (2) identical servers S2008-A and S2008-B, to install Double Take  5.2 on both. At the moment, I'm planning to to simulate the features of High Availability and DT-Move and as well to practice on P2V & V2V migrate and conversion excercises.

Server installation on esxi for initial prep...

Double Take installation...

Replication Console... S2008A is the target server, S2008B is the Source server to replicate on S2008A server.

...got an error setting up, IPaddress of Source and Target must be properly set.

I got it worked after proper IP configuration was set. Mirroring is now running, it should replicate after mirroring is done from the local set replication folder.

A little view from my Workstation10... waiting for Mirroring to complete.

...to be continued. Test dev in progress...

VMWARE ESXI Virtual Networking

Windows 10 Technical Preview

Here's what I downloaded last night. Also joined Windows Insider Program to gather and share details for the current preview release of Windows 10. My main objective for this install is to rationalize from other previous version such as Win7, Win8 and 8.1- for the enterprise use.

I installed Windows 10 initially on Hyper-V running on my laptop with Win8.1 64bit. The VM for Windows 10 has 2gb memory allocation and a 24gb mSATA SSD for VHD storage. No more 'charms' but still can be used for slate devices.

You have to be very careful if you take the preview install. This preview has a KEYLOGGER! See this article from "The Hacker News".

HomeLAB: Nested ESXi VM's

Installing Hyper-V on ESXi 5.1

1. You need to set Hyper-V to run on ESXi 5.1, it will lead you to an error "Hyper-V cannot be installed: A hypervisor is already running "  when your Hyper-V VM is not properly set accordingly to run on a nested hypervisor. See knowledge base.

2. From my vCenter Web Client I started to create a new VM and configure the CPU settings. This should be marked checked “Expose Hardware Assisted Virtualization to the guest OS”  and then continue up to install Windows Server 2012.

3. Edit the VM's .vmx file and add the following line;

        hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = FALSE

4. Now you can configure your Server2012 to add roles, install Hyper-V on server manager.

5. You can now manage your Hyper-V server from your Windows 8 hyper-v manager or from the Hyper-V server itself.

6. (Optional) My entire homelab has an Active Directory/Domain Controller. I joined all nested hypervisor under one domain.

Across to my existing basic VMware HomeLAB.

1. Nested ESXi and Hyper-V on Esxi5.1
2. Active Directory Authentication of nested hypervisors from Server2012.

3. UTM applications on VM.

4. Migration of VM's to another Datastore with vCenter client.