Virtualizing pfSense in ESXi 6.5

Pardon the interruption. Once I got things up and running in my last post I got a little carried away with getting things up and running. I think it’s a good time to take a break to catch up on things here. Like so many homelabs these days, mine begins with…

Roll Out

I didn’t forget about this blog or this project. Quite the contrary, in fact. Since my last post ten months ago I’ve gone fully through the five stages of grief. At first I was absolutely denying the reality of the situation with my eBay-purchased Lenovo ThinkServer 140. I don’t know…

Design Decisions

I said my next post would likely be after I installed the next round of parts, but there are a few things I decided that I want to note before that happens. Deciding on a storage configuration for the server has ended up requiring far more thought than I initially…