I’m a big beliver of Defense in Depth, when it concerns to Information Technology Security. As such I always leave the default Windows Firewall activated, in my configs. Every so often I install a SQL Server, and I need to open the port. It’s not just...
Okay, the original title was going to be ‘InfiniBand in the lab… who can afford 10/40 GbE’. I’ve looked in the past at 10GbE switches, and nearly pulled the trigger a few times. Even now the prices of the switches like the Netgear Prosafe or...
Before I start on a blog on how I implemented InfiniBand in the lab, I wanted to make a quick backstory on my lab which is located in the office. I do have a small homelab running VSAN, but this my larger lab. This is a quick summary of my recent lab adventures. The...
This is to give you a quick insight in my 2013 Homelab that is running vSphere 5.5 and has a running version of Virtual SAN (VSAN) in Beta code. I have been quiet on the blog for a while, as I’ve been doing some tests with vSphere 5.5 and VSAN, but the NDA has...
I’ve created a simple Microsft SQL Server Transact-SQL script to configure the database for vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.1 . This allows you to quickly create the database on the primary site and the recovery site. I’m not too impressed by the...
