{"id":1518,"date":"2022-01-06T22:22:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T03:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/brd\/wp\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2022-01-06T22:24:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T03:24:16","slug":"if-all-my-tech-work-could-be-done-in-a-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/2022\/01\/06\/if-all-my-tech-work-could-be-done-in-a-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"If all my tech &#8220;work&#8221; could be done in a lab&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been back at work for 4 days since the winter holidays, and I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>I have a lot of good things to say about VMware and I am grateful they have the new Lab environment. And&#8230; I must admit that I haven&#8217;t been doing myself service since I haven&#8217;t really been using them.<\/p>\n<p>If I could move all my vSphere, Horizon, K8s learning to their labs&#8230; what would I gain, and what would I lose?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gains:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I would move to my phone as my primary device significantly faster\n<ul>\n<li>This would encourage finding a really good backup solution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>I could donate the T20, z220 and not have to cry about TPM upgrade woes, or CPU incompatibilities when using vMotion\n<ul>\n<li>Although this would lose that nice (but dated) GTX 780 card.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>I could return the really nice, but not really useful Intel NUC from work<\/li>\n<li>My work remains&#8230; my work!<\/li>\n<li>My personal tech burden is significantly reduced<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I would still need to care and feed for the same same VMs I have now<\/li>\n<li>I would end up re-emphasizing my need to move from Google Workspaces over to O365<\/li>\n<li>I would lose everything if VMware pulled the plug on my lab for whatever reason.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I think its about time I do something about this and start building in the labs. I&#8217;m never going to get where I want to be if I keep getting bogged down in trying to resurrect old hardware.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1519\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1519\" style=\"width: 1672px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/brd\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Inkhundla-computer-repair-2012-04-11-003-resized.jpg\" alt=\"Brian and Sikhumbuzo working on a computer\" width=\"1672\" height=\"1254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Inkhundla-computer-repair-2012-04-11-003-resized.jpg 1672w, https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Inkhundla-computer-repair-2012-04-11-003-resized-744x558.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Inkhundla-computer-repair-2012-04-11-003-resized-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Inkhundla-computer-repair-2012-04-11-003-resized-420x315.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Inkhundla-computer-repair-2012-04-11-003-resized-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Inkhundla-computer-repair-2012-04-11-003-resized-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1672px) 100vw, 1672px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don&#8217;t forget the wisdom of the Professor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been back at work for 4 days since the winter holidays, and I&#8217;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 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[341,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1522,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions\/1522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}