I’ve been back at work for 4 days since the winter holidays, and I’m already feeling burdened by how much I need to learn to stay relevant, and how much I am letting this impinges upon my personal life outside of work.
I have a lot of good things to say about VMware and I am grateful they have the new Lab environment. And… I must admit that I haven’t been doing myself service since I haven’t really been using them.
If I could move all my vSphere, Horizon, K8s learning to their labs… what would I gain, and what would I lose?
Gains:
- I would move to my phone as my primary device significantly faster
- This would encourage finding a really good backup solution
- I could donate the T20, z220 and not have to cry about TPM upgrade woes, or CPU incompatibilities when using vMotion
- Although this would lose that nice (but dated) GTX 780 card.
- I could return the really nice, but not really useful Intel NUC from work
- My work remains… my work!
- My personal tech burden is significantly reduced
Cons:
- I would still need to care and feed for the same same VMs I have now
- I would end up re-emphasizing my need to move from Google Workspaces over to O365
- I would lose everything if VMware pulled the plug on my lab for whatever reason.
I think its about time I do something about this and start building in the labs. I’m never going to get where I want to be if I keep getting bogged down in trying to resurrect old hardware.
