These are my build notes of my last server. This server is based around the Supermicro X10SDV-4C-7TP4F motherboard that I already described in my previous article (Bill-of-Materials). For the Case I select a Fractal Design Node 804 square small chassis. It is...
Another new host has joined the Home Datacenter (#HomeDC). This one is my first low powered Intel Xeon D-1500 server I get my hands on. There have been some great install guides about other Supermicro X10SDV motherboards on many sites, and I would recommend that you...
While deploying a vRealize Automation (vRA) appliance at a customer yesterday, I wanted to setup the monitoring from vRealize Automation to the vRealize Log Insight (vRLI) solution with the new vRA 7 Content Pack. This Content Pack is available for download from the...
As part of my ongoing expansion of the HomeDC, I was excited to learn about the availability of the latest Quad-Core Intel NUC a few months ago. Last friday I received my first Intel NUC Skylake NUC6I7KYK. I only started setting it up this afternoon. I usually do...
I’ve recently finished upgrading the Home Datacenter (#HomeDC) to vSphere 6.0 with four hosts running VSAN 6.0 with dual 10GbE networking for each host. Even running a few large virtual machines on the VSAN Datastore like VDP 6.0 with a 4TB backed disk, I found...
