A Technology Journey
The Domain Name System, or DNS, service is probably one of the most critical services to run in a network. Setting it up in the best available configuration is just as important to ensure there is no downtime.
In my lab, I am running two Microsoft Windows Server 2022 guests with the Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services role installed. This also installs the DNS Server role.
Since I am a big fan of VMware, all of my lab will be built using VMware technology. I am using ESXi 7.0 U3 on my base host to build up a nested virtualized environment.
Continue reading “MyLab: The Virtual Machine”From time to time, I completely wipe out my lab and just start over. This keeps me fresh on the technology and allows me to discover new puzzles as software is always changing. The one thing that is consistent in my lab is a VMware host, a PowerEdge R730xd, and a Synology DS1511+ Network Attached Storage (NAS).
These new posts are going to allow me to capture any details and be the living documentation. My lab may come up and go down, but a lot of the times I use similar Group Policies or names. These posts will be the information that stays current while the lab is ever changing.
In the future, I would like to get this as code (infrastructure as code), where possible, so that the process is more defined. Rather than build and configure, I would rather configure and build. That is likely a little ways off, however.
To keep things simple, I am going to preface the posts with MyLab: and then include whatever technology I am documenting at that time. The goal for my lab is usually a fully secured and operational VMware Horizon implementation.
Continue reading “MyLab: Overview”