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Originally Posted by Proven Guilty
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If you're using configuration management at home for practice, Salt or Chef are both excellent. You can also make a single box Hyper-V and another box VMWare to keep yourself experienced in both areas. They both work fundamentally the same and it was a fun challenge creating business continuity scenarios between the two hypervisors using configuration management to quickly replaced failed hosts (as you won't be using licensed features to allow fault tolerance/active failover).
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That is actually a great idea; I think I'll reload the current box with VMware after I create/promote my new box as PDC. I know in essence nothing of VMware as all I've ever done has been Hyper-V. Not a problem in the current job, but you never know...
For my PXE boot solution I'm using WDS to supply images for not only my VM's but my physical boxes as well. When my girlfriend riddles her PC with adware, I just blow it out and redeploy. Works like a charm and I don't have to go through the hassle of cleaning that crap off. With the images for 2012r2, win7/8 and all the drivers already sitting in WDS it's actually faster to reload than "clean."
I'm know enough about vlans to be dangerous; at the office I have my phones segmented off from the rest of my network and my cluster talks to itself over its own vlan on the virtual switch. Maybe it's time to buy some better switches and do it at home as well...
For media I'm just using the extra download they released for 2012r2. It's a DLNA server that lets me stream to my consoles. What is PLEX? Does it have a "pretty" interface? Right now it's kind of like navigating a Windows folder structure to launch a movie. Functional, but not ideal I guess.