I’ve been looking for a while for a new more powerful homelab (for home), that scales and passes the limits I currently have. I had a great success last year with the Supermicro X9SRL-F motherboard for the Home NAS (Running NexentaStor 3.1.5), so I know I loved the...
I believe that we are at a point of time where we will see a shift in the vSphere homelab designs. One homelab design, which I see as becoming more and more popular is the Nested Homelab using either a VMware Workstation or VMware Fusion base. There are already a lot...
This isn’t really a blog where you will get a recipe on how to implement VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) or InfiniBand technologies, but more a small account of my troubles I experienced yesterday with my infrastructure. I did publish a picture yesterday on twitter,...
Tomorrow, the London VMUG will happen in London. I will give a Lightning Talk about InfiniBand in the Lab, and why for small labs, the InfiniBand is a solution that can be more performant and much cheaper than 10Gb Ethernet. Here is the Presentation that will be given...
As part of my VSAN Cluster that I’m building, I wanted to dig deeper and test hte LSI Host Bus Adapters. These cards have been used extensively in past few years with storage appliances that migrate the mangement, compute and error handling to the operating...
