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• Help setting up a laboratory at home using Cisco kit and a blank Superhub

  

  Hello world

  I just started my CCENT class and so I try to create a laboratory that is separate from my LAN House, initially using a blank Superhub and a Cisco 1841 router.  Please keep in mind that I am a beginner, so it may not make sense or be completely illogical...

  The superhub for those who don't know, is a renamed netgear, limit VMDG480.  It's basically a cable modem and router wireless combined.

  The normal daily LAN side of the network was the default installation to receive an IP address via DHCP from the superhub in range 192.168.0.1/24.

  At first, I thought I could put things in preparation for my lab installation, by configuring the LAN subnet using 192.168.0.0 and superhub of/16 mask rank for my 'everyday' network and 192.168.1.0 rank for my "laboratory at home." (Good or bad?...)

  Unfortunately, I'm unable to do so because the superhub only allows the last byte in the mask to be changed, so I changed the mask and it now reads 255.255.255.128, with the idea that I can always have 2 separate networks.

  In the photo above you can see devices on the right side are all directly related to the superhub and continue to work as usual.

  On the left side is where I've implemented a Cisco 1841 router and a laptop computer to test.

  The details of each device are;

  Blank Superhub
  LAN:192.168.0.1
  The DHCP scope: 192.168.0.2 - 192.168.0.126

  Cisco 1841
  Fast Ethernet 0/1: 192.168.0.126
  255.255.255.128

  Fast Ethernet 0/0: 192.168.0.129
  255.255.255.128

  PC2 (mobile wired connected to FE 0/0)
  IP: 192.168.0.200
  255.255.255.128
  Default gateway: 192.168.0.126 (the address IP of Cisco 1841)

  Someone would be kind enough to look at this and tell me where I'm wrong please?

  I thought about pulling the superhub completely, but I am bound to her by my ISP :(

  Hello

  It of a little early in your studies for this :) but implementation of your knees it should work:

  1841 router:

  int fa0/0 (interface connected to the hub)
  IP 192.168.0.126 255.255.255.0
  NAT outside IP
  No tap

  int fa0/1.2
  encapsulaton dot1q 2
  IP 172.16.0.1 255.255.0.0
  IP nat inside
  No tap

  int fa0/1 (interface connected to)
  No tap

  NAT configuration:

  access-list 1 permit 172.16.0.0 0.0.255.255
  IP nat inside source list 1 interface fa0/0 overload

  Add a default route:
  IP route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 (so your router knows where to forward DNS queries to 8.8.8.8)

  Connect your 3560 to the second port on the router and configure a trunk on the switch port and add vlan 2:

  int fa0/0 (connected to the 1841 router)
  switch to trunk encapsulation dot1q
  mode trunk switch

  VLAN 2
  name Home_Lab

  Connect your PC to the second switchport and add vlan2:

  int fa0/1
  access mode switch
  access switch vlan 2
  No tap

  Finally, give your PC an address in the subnet of vlan 2:

  IP: 172.16.0.2
  Mask: 255.255.0.0
  Gateway: 172.16.0.1
  DNS: 8.8.8.8

  You should be able to ping the address of the router on the subnet in 172.16.x.x 192.x.x.x. I don't have a Virgin hub to test this, but it worked well with two 1841 routers.

• Problem with server Supermicro laboratory at home, ESXi sets in not as server restarts always

  Dear community,

  I'm having a problem that makes me nuts and I was wondering if you can help me with this.

  While trying to set up a laboratory at home (I think it's often referred to a "white box" system)? I don't get the operational ESXi installation. For three days, I was not able to install ESXi.

  Problem:

  ESXi 5.5U3 installation fails and immediately restarts the host until it starts doing anything... specific.

  Using IPMI my motherboard I recorded (and also attached) a video and tried to integrate it here:

  In case you don't see it please look at the attachment.

  For those who do not see the host starts and begins to extract the files in memory. When he goes to the grey-yellow screen it shows the following lines and then - BOOM - restarts the host and it again:

  Initialization of the moment...

  Initializing Scheduler...

  Initializing power management...

  the user successfully loaded.

  RESET

  I tried several options, such as the boot via USB, both internally and externally, to change between USB 2.0 or 3.0 port or IPMI ISO loading but nothing, all this goes down with the same problem or even f * cks up to my output video when you attach a file ISO storage KVM. Disabling USB legacy support also solves nothing and even had to reset the BIOS thereafter. Also to make sure that it is not related to the RAM, I changed the memory and tried with 8 or 16 GB or 32 GB full and also tried different banks, no change.

  It is the material that I use:

  • Supermicro X10SLL-F
  • Kit of UDUMM 240-pin ECC Kingston 32 GB (4 x 8 GB)
  • be quiet 400W power
  • SATA 250 GB HARD drive (or without)
  • Lexar 8 GB USB stick (formatted with Rufus) / anonymous 4 GB USB Stick

  As described above, nothing I tried quite fix it and I start to feel the distress of one.) "(ne pas pouvoir continuer et b.)" After spending a lot of money on things that don't work (and I'd rather not things).

  I know that, currently, this motherboard is not himself but factually have seen several blog posts of people who use this motherboard with success. Why am I the only one who can not do?

  Oh any by the way, the ESXi version is this: VMware-VMvisor-Installer - 5.5.0.update03 - 3116895.x86_64.iso

  I hope that someone out there is able to help me.

  Thank you in advance for your help!

  Believe it or not, it was the power supply.

  All those who try and random restarts as beds me days were due to the poor being quiet power, hopefully, at some point this will help everyone.

• Question of laboratory network home

  I recently acquired a couple of HP DL360 G4s and a NAS I think to support NFS and want to set up a laboratory at home using ESXi 4.1. I also acquired a couple of NIC dual port to add to the servers for additional physical network adapters. I'm a bit confused on the side network, I do not have a GBit 8 port switch I could connect all this, but it is unmanaged and that means no configuration of VLAN. How can I make this work if I want to put the SIN in NFS on my network with internet access?

  Any help would be greatly appreciated

  .. Since I have a switch and can not do VLAN for the time being, I have several uplinks on the standard vSwitch connected to the same subnet?

  As long as you use the 'Road' default vSwitch strategy based on the source port id, it should work.

  André

• Conditions of installation of laboratory at home to study for VCP

  I just purchased a Lenovo think TD 230 server with Xeon processor and 2 gd of ram. I confirmed that it meets all of the requirements in the HCL on the VMware Web site. The server contains up to 32 GB of ram, but until I buy the second processor I'm only will be upgraded to 16 GB which will give me a nice amount of memory to be distributed to the virtual machines. I'm looking for some documents with details on how to set up a laboratory SCNET using workstation as host. I know that I have I have an msdn account have access to tons of operating systems and of AMENDMENTS to build the vm with. I'm just trying to understand how to structure the environment using esxi, vsphere, vcenter server and build it in the workstation 8

  Material looks enough to VCP5 virtual lab, you can go through the links for more details information & installation below

  http://www.vhersey.com/2011/12/my-home-VMware-Lab/

  http://boerlowie.WordPress.com/category/ultimate-vSphere-lab/

  http://communities.VMware.com/message/1874529#1874529

• Need advice with a laboratory at home

  What is your opinion with this laboratory to the House vSphere: 2 servers with 16 or 32 GB of RAM from Newegg or Amazon PowerEdge T110 II (Xeon 1230 v2 w/3 NIC) Dell (Dell RAM is of $$), switch (Cisco SG300) managed gigabit, box of i3 intel not expensive with 3 or 4 discs running openfiler or Freenas for storage and a UPS am I missing something? I don't want to build a white box and don't want a RAID controller (for now). Thanks for your advice. (I'm studying for my VCP)

  Welcome to the community,

  If the purpose of this study, I would not even spend a lot of money on server hardware, but try to have a decent PC (e.g. I7 CPU, 16 + GB RAM, SSD and HARD disk) and build a virtual lab with which you will have a much better flexibility in what you have installed. For example look at building the ultimate vSphere lab to see if this might be an option for you.

  André

• Laboratory at home - will this work?

  I'm not familiar with ESXi capabilities or it is that I've never experimented with a bare metal hypervisor. I would like to know if what I have in mind will work before investing my time and money into this project

  Objectives - build a ZFS NAS bases / syslog server under a card for my lab at home

  Material

  N40L - Dual-core 1.3 GHz AMD Athlon Microserver HP 2 - NC107i PCI - e Gigabit NIC. I'll add one extra gigabit NIC as well.

  I'll put the max 8GB DDR3 ECC RAM

  For storage, I have to make a minor mod so I can get 5 x HD machine comes with 4 drive bays, so I'll put disks SATA 4 x 2 TB to use as storage RAID-Z. I want to add a shopping cart to drive for 5.25 inch optical drive to install an additional SSD used for these two VMS operating systems. Here is a link for someone who has done the mod - http://paulroberts69.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/installing-a-hdd-in-the-optical-drive-bay-on-an-hp-microserver-n40l/

  Configuration

  In the end, I want to have 2 virtual machines running on this computer.

  VM1 - FreeNas 8

  VM2 - FreeBSD or Linux used as mainly a syslog / web server

  Questions and concerns. Will it be possible?

  I want to start ESXi on internal USB port of motherboards.

  I'll be able to install the operating system of these two virtual machines if I partition the SSD added that I installed in the optical drive Bay?

  The FreeNas VM will be able to configure the RAID-Z among the 4 SATA physical disks?

  Each virtual computer will be assigned it's own physical NIC because they will run on 2 separate behind my pfSense firewall network segments. I don't have any image it will really be a problem if I used it in network bridge.

  If this is not possible, I'll probably install FreeBSD on its own and try to get my setup above to work. I'm not familiar with FreeBSD and I want the nice interface of the FreeNAS GUI to manage my storage and Samba shares, so that is why I want to virtualize.

  Advice or advice is greatly appreciated.

  dafunkphenom wrote:

  I think I'll have to sacrifice the RAM. It looks like buy sticks of 2 x 4 GB RAM ECC would cost me about $450. The box already comes with a 2 GB module, so if I buy another 2 GB directly from HP module I can get it for $70. I doubt I need 8GB to my config anyway.

  Try to search in Kingston or other compatible memory instead of HP original.

  I was looking here (Europe, Switzerland) locally and them found for about $ 40. Kingston is the list this memory as KTH-PL313E / 4G

  $600 tax Inc. for the Microserver.

  $400 for 2 x 3,5 "SATA 2 TB + 1 x 120 GB SSD (I have already 2 x 2 TB drives kicking around and I have a PCI-e Gigabit NIC to an old box)

  $70 for 2 GB ECC memory module

  So probably all said and done between $1000-$1100 taxes. I'm from good old (Ontario) Canada.

  Ah, got a few distant relatives in and around London (Ontario).

  Greetings from nightly from Bern, Switzerland

• Reviews for laboratory at home: Q9300, 8 GB DDR3, 1 TB SATA, 1 Gigabit NIC memory

  Given this machine for $620 (delivered) by grazing web.  That would be enough for ESXi and vCenter Openfiler?  Seems that I should be able to get at least the majority of the running vSphere components.  It would be a complement to a better job laboratory machine lot.

  Thanks in advance,

  Mark

  CPU is good enough: http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=33922

  And is capable of VT - x (to run the x 64 guests).

  If you motherboard a good chipset, maybe you can also test VMDirectPath (chech for compatible with VT - d chipset).

  On the RAM, that could be enough to operate 2 ESXi, vCenter a small and small VMs system... but, if you can, give 10 or 12 GB.

  A teddy bear unique is a limit, but you can work with it. Maybe look for a switch supporting at least VLAN.

  Subject of HCL (if you plan to install ESXi in the physical system), make sure your motherboard is:

  http://www.VM-help.com
  http://ultimatewhitebox.com

• Which NAS drive do you use? -(laboratory at home)

  I think about buying a new NAS box for my house testlab.  Are there any major recommendation for the brands and models?

  The most important factors: -.

  1. it must be cheap

  2. you have to work with ESXi 5 - didn't need to be on the HCL

  3 speed would be nice

  4. it doesn't have to have a lot of storage, just big enough to run than some average sizes servers.

  I'm open to other ideas (iSCSI etc.) if they are affordable.

  Take a look at the features of Synology

• How to create the laboratory home

  Hello

  I'm new to vmware, I learn to vmware, I want to know how to create the laboratory at home to vmware.

  Thanks in advance.

  I found this very informative article

  http://techhead.co/VMware-ESXi-home-lab-why-what-and-how-considerations-when-building-your-own-home-lab/

• CONFIG for VMWARE ESXi 5.1 LABORATORY home

  Hello

  Is below configuration good enough to set up the VMware ESXi 5.1 laboratory at home?

  
  

  CPU - Intel® Core™ i7-4770 processor (8 M Cache, up to 3.90 GHz)

  Motherboard - Intel DQ87PG

  SAS hard drive - SEAGATE BARRACUDor

  SEAGATE BARRACUDA 7200.14 hard drive - 1 TB

  Hard drive SSD - Samsung 840 Evo 120 GB

  Memory (16 GB) - Kingston DDR3 1600 MHz 8 GB * 2

  Monitor - SAMSUNG S19A003N

  Cabinet - battle of Cooler Master HAF 912

  OS - Windows 7 Professional 64 bit

  
  

  I intend to return one of the below links to set up the LAB and I hope the above configuration is in favour.

  
  

  http://boerlowie.WordPress.com/2011/11/30/building-the-ultimate-vSphere-lab-part-1-the-story/

  
  

  or

  http://popravak.WordPress.com/2013/07/26/VMware-vSphere-5-1-lab-on-our-laptops/

  
  

  
  

  Thank you

  
  

  You can find all downloads for VMwre to https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads. What you might want to look for are the links "Download trial" to "VMware Workstation" and "VMware vSphere. BTW. is there a reason you ask for older versions?

  For Windows Server, see download Windows Server 2008 R2 Evaluation (180 days) from the official Microsoft Download Center

  André

  PS: In the past VMware has provided a free license of VMware Workstation after you have completed the requirements to become a VCP - DCV (i.e. necessary training, more exam). I'm sure they'll continue to do that.

• Reference Dell T310 - laboratory home

  Hi all

  I want to buy 2 of the Dell Poweredge T310 server for my laboratory at home to practice and prepare for my VCP certification. Here is the specification I chose and please let me know if this is compatible and I'm good to go set up my lab, I have to make changes to these specifications? I have not ordered any RAID controllers and do I really need?

  PowerEdge T310 chassis with up to 4 hard drives and Quad Pack LED Diagnostics
  Delivery charges for PowerEdge T310
  16 GB 1333 MHz UDIMM memory
  X 3430 Xeon processor, 2.4 GHz 8 MB Cache, Turbo
  PowerEdge T310 heatsink of heat
  No controller
  No operating system
  Gigabit network adapter double built-in
  Controller BMC
  Cable for optical drive SATA for PowerEdge T310
  Integrated SATA, 1-4 hard drives connected to the integrated SATA - no RAID controller

  250GB 7.2 k RPM Serial ATA 3Gbps 3, cable 5po hard drive

  250GB 7.2 k RPM Serial ATA 3Gbps 3, cable 5po hard drive
  Non-redondante 375W PSU

  Thanks in advance,

  I found the focus check tracking if help http://communities.vmware.com/message/1475041

  I am looking in HCL - check result.

  Research: Your search for "Systems" returned 2 results.
  Display:

  Name of the partner	Model	CPU series	Supported releases
  REFERENCE DELL	PowerEdge T310	Intel i3/i5 Clarkdale series	ESX 4.1 U1 4.1 4.1 U1 4.1 ...
  REFERENCE DELL	PowerEdge T310	Intel Xeon 34xx series Lynnfield	ESX 4.1 U1 4.1 4.1 U1

  ? deviceCategory = Server & productid = 10062 & releaseid = 142 & deviceCategory Server = & partner = 23 & keyword = t310 & page = 1 & display_interval = 10 & sortColumn = partner & sortOrder = Asc "> 4.1 ...

  Please, do not forget the points of call of the "useful" or "correct" answers

  Mauro Bonder - moderator

• Problem of Smartphones from blackBerry connection Curve 8250 to WiFi at home (Dyatek Vigor 2710)

  Problems to connect the newly bought Curve 8250 home tips 2710-no WiFi Dray Tek Vigor gratefully received!

  BB can 'see' home network but will not connect. Its as if BB and the router can "see" each other, but can not will not "talk" to each other. Tried to change to Hotspot and off-grid (Vodafone) BB browser and tried all three connection options (PIN, push button and manual by pre-shared key), but all expire without any link with.

  Took a look at other assignments, but nobody seems to have had this problem.

  Help!

  Denis

  If your 802.11 running * N * on your router, this could cause problems. The BB model you are using doesn't support 802.11 * G * and 802. 11 * B *.

  One thing I do to try to eliminate this problem is to check your settings wireless LAN of your router by logging in the cpanel. If it tells you are currently using tape N then try to pass it to one of the compatible bands above and see if your phone makes a connection to UMA. If this does not resolve the problem, by all means, let me know and we can explore other avenues.

• How to set an MTU of 1600 for test Lab at home for the NSX on Vmware workstation

  Hello.

  I'll set up a laboratory at home to build a laboratory to the NSX. I am running 3 on VMware Workstation 11 Esxi hosts. All three hosts of esxi run each 4 Ethernet adapters on them.

  To configure installation VXlan for my lab at home, I have modified the virtual machine's .vmx file and changed the vmxnet3 device and it works.

  Ethernet1. ConnectionType = "custom".

  Ethernet1.virtualDev = "e1000".

  Ethernet1.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE".

  Ethernet1. AddressType = 'generated '.

  ethernet2. Present = 'TRUE '.

  ethernet2.VNET = "VMnet1.

  ethernet2. ConnectionType = "custom".

  ethernet2.virtualDev = "vmxnet3" - change to vmxnet3

  Adapter type VMxnet3 only is not supported for VMware workstation and also one of my hosts broke down several times with the low error message in the log file.

  2015-08 - 02T 13: 37:48.254 + 10:00 | vCPU-4 | I120: Ethernet3 MAC address: 00: 0C: d 29:a4:7: 8 c

  2015-08 - 02T 13: 37:48.261 + 10:00 | vCPU-4 | I120: VMXNET3 user: Ethernet3 pilot Info: version = 16908544 gosBits = 2 gosType = 1, gosVer = 0, gosMisc = 0

  2015-08 - 02T 13: 37:48.527 + 10:00 | vCPU-5 | I120: VMXNET3 hosted: Packet has no eop, 1 scanner, tx ring size 512, txd valid 0.

  2015-08 - 02T 13: 37:48.527 + 10:00 | vCPU-4 | I120: Ethernet3 MAC address: 00: 0C: d 29:a4:7: 8 c

  2015-08 - 02T 13: 37:48.536 + 10:00 | vCPU-4 | I120: VMXNET3 user: Ethernet3 pilot Info: version = 16908544 gosBits = 2 gosType = 1, gosVer = 0, gosMisc = 0

  2015-08 - 02T 13: 37:51.436 + 10:00 | VMX | I120: E1000: E1000 full rx ring, empty packages.

  2015-08 - 02T 13: 37:53.636 + 10:00 | MKS | I120: MKS - SWB: number of MKSWindows has changed: 1 make MKSWindow (s) total 2.

  2015-08 - 02T 13: 37:55.565 + 10:00 | VMX | I120: VMXVmdbCbVmVmxExecState: change of State Exec asked State poweredOff without reset, soft, softOptionTimeout: 20000000.

  2015-08 - 02T 13: 37:55.565 + 10:00 | VMX | I120: Stopping VCPU son...

  2015-08 - 02T 13: 37:56.567 + 10:00 | SVGA | I120: Fate of thread SVGA

  2015-08 - 02T 13: 37:56.571 + 10:00 | MKS | I120: MKS - SWB: number of MKSWindows changed: 0 record (s) MKSWindow of total 1.

  2015-08 - 02T 13: 37:56.575 + 10:00 | MKS | I120: GDI-Backend: HWinMux stopped making the composition of the window.

  2015-08 - 02T 13: 37:56.575 + 10:00 | MKS | I120: MKS - SWB: number of MKSWindows changed: 0 record (s) MKSWindow of total 0.

  2015-08 - 02T 13: 37:56.575 + 10:00 | VMX | I120: Thread MKS is stopped

  Can someone guide me how to set up a lab NSX on VMware workstation and use 1600 MTU for VXlan traffic. Any help is very appreciated.

  Hi all

  I managed to solve this problem by separating the storage traffic to a different vswitch and the traffic to a different VDS NSX.

  ~ # esxcfg - NICS - l

  Name PCI Driver link speed Duplex MAC address MTU Description

  vmnic0 e1000 up to 1000Mbps Full 00 0000:02:01.00: 0C: d 29:a4:7: Intel Corporation 1500 6th 82545EM controller Gigabit Ethernet (copper)

  vmnic1 e1000 up to 1000Mbps Full 00 0000:02:04.00: 0C: 29:a4:7 d: 78 1500 Corporation Intel 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (copper)

  vmnic2 e1000 up to 1000Mbps Full 00 0000:02:05.00: 0C: 29:a4:7 d: 82 1600 Corporation Intel 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (copper)

  vmnic3 0000: 0b: 00.00 vmxnet3 Up Full 00 10000Mbps: 0C: 29:a4:7 d: 8 c 1600 vmxnet3 Inc. VMware Virtual Ethernet Controller.

  ~ # esxcfg - vswitch - l

  Switch name Num used Ports configured Ports MTU rising ports

  1536 5 128 1500 vmnic0 vSwitch0

  Name PortGroup VLAN ID used rising Ports

  The VM network 0 0 vmnic0

  0 1 vmnic0 VMkernel

  0 1 vmnic0 network management

  DVS name Num used Ports Ports Ports configured MTU rising

  dvSwitch 1536 10 512 1600 vmnic3 - for network traffic

  DVPort use customer ID

  7 1 vmnic3

  81 1 NSX 2 controller nsx_controller_4be65643-37ca-468e-b00a-f711d6cc5447.eth0---noeud

  79 1 nsx_controller_8bb60e33-b290-4252-92b1-501aa2f83607.eth0---noeud NSX Controller 3

  110 1 vmk2 - vtep interface for the host

  119 1 Linux1.eth0 - test Linux VM

  This laboratory works fine for me now and my Adviser for laboratory at home will be not to use the same network card for storage traffic that was used for the traffic of the NSX.

  Thank you for all your help.

• Question about the subscription renewal for vSphere lab Essentials home

  First post on the forum here.  My apologies if this isn't the right place for a question like this.

  I have a lab at home that I have set up using the "VMware vSphere 5 Kit Essentials" that I had bought on the VMware online store.  It was a pretty fun because it let me familiarize themselves with the technology that I use at work without the same consequences for the mistakes of the project.

  To be honest though, I have never much thought about support and subscriptions for it... Setup should really just have to learn and be the main server for my house projects.  The cost for me to buy the Kit of Essentials has been a little more than $500 a year ago, and it seems that my still currently active subscription (my account displays "subscription only" for the Essentials Kit) allows me to download the latest patches and maybe even upgrade to a new major version in the future.  I would like to continue the subscription, as this seems to be more profitable that leave on the subscription and then renew... compared to the initial $ 500, a one or three year renewal looks pretty good - and I'd get to continue to be on the latest versions of the vSphere Essentials.

  I thought it would be as simple as clicking on renew somewhere on my account, but that begins to not look like an option.  I think that I am driven to get in touch with a business partner for the subscription renewals (is this sounding right?).  This seems a bit much for me for a small laboratory at home like mine.  Is the only way to renew a subscription via a partner company?  If I'm completely off track here, please let me know.  If I'm here, does anyone know (or recommend) a partner company that manages small renewals as mine would be?

  Maybe I'm hesitant for nothing, but I thought I would ask those who understand the subscription and support better than me.

  Thank you very much for the help!

  Dan

  To answer my own question, I discovered that for users with contracts less than $3,000... is it possible to make a renewal online without the need to go through a partner.  It turns out that the link to the online renewal page is available through the 60, 30, 15 days notice in advance of the emails that are sent to the holder of the account (which is how I found it).  The page renewal me related to this FAQ PDF that I found useful.  I was able to successfully renew my subscription from the link.

  http://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/myvmware/VMware-online-renewals-FAQs-en.PDF

  The important bits for me were the following (from the FAQ):

  ====

  Q: clients access renewals online from VMware.com or My VMware?

  A: access to the online renewal platform is by a "direct link" sent to clients through the electronic communication of renewal.

  Q: when VMware will send me the link of renewal online?

  R: the link for customers to renew online will appear on reminders e-mail sent 60-30-15 days prior to the expiration of the contract.

  Q: can customers renew all contracts renewal online?

  A: customers will be able to renew those contracts to a total value of less than $3,000 USD only. Customers will have the option of

  move to a higher level of service, or a longer term, as you wish.

  ====

  Hope that helps future lab home amateurs like me.

  Dan