I had some fun and games setting this up, so I thought i'd blog the process for others in case its useful. Firstly, configuring working...

Firstly, why am i doing this? So I have a VMware Homelab environment and DNS is a very important part of a VMware environment. I've been through a couple of iterations of my Homelab, and in both cases I built an Ubuntu VM running BIND DNS on my VMware Homelab. the problem with this is the DNS VM is dependant on the VMware lab itself, so i needed a better way of doing this. On speaking to a fellow colleague, I realized it would be better to move DNS so it is external to my ho

The following guide uses the Free Edition of ESXi to create a USB bootable installer. Download the Free ESXi ISO You can download the...