Welcome to Part 2 of my Home Lab series (it’s now twice as long!) where I install the Hypervisor. The 6th Generation Intel NUC hardware is all assembled and working, so now it’s time to put some software into the mix. I’ve chosen to start with VMware vSphere ESXi 6- the VMware Hypervisor is the one I’m most hands-on …

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Inspired by the folks at the London VMUG, I finally got round to starting on a proper home-lab for the bits of hands-on IT learning that I can’t do with a Virtual Machine on my laptop, VMware Hands on Labs and the like. I’ve based this around the 6th Generation Intel NUC (“Next Unit of Computing”) platform. Hopefully …

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