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Note: I am still investigating this, so whilst it looks like it might be the root cause, I am not 100% just yet.

Authentik is an Open Source Identity Provider which I currently use outside of my VCF homelab.

After spending a bit of time tidying up cables in my rack, I figured I’d take the opportunity to write about my current setup.

I’m not going to run any benchmarks as there’s plenty of information out there, but what I’m going to do is deploy VCF on a single MS-A2 and time it, I’ve included times for deploying onto a single NUC Extreme, as well as a single Xeon host for comparison.

I’ve been experimenting with VCF 9 in my homelab recently and I’ve been trying out some day 2 activities.

My homelab currently comprises of 3x Intel NUC Extremes (11th gen, 1x i9, 2x i7) along with 2x Xeon workstation based hosts.

I previously blogged about how you can get BGP working between a UDM-SE and NSX Edge.

I recently upgraded my Domain Controller to the Server 2025.

Whilst HCX is a perfectly suitable to migrate most workloads, there are some which require careful consideration and planning such as SQL Clusters, Oracle (or other database servers), load balancers, and even Active Directory Domain Controllers.

I see quite a bit of confusion about this internally and with customers, so I figured I would write a quick blog post on the subject.