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...
Preamble It’s now 2013, and it’s time to have a peak at my homelab refresh for this year. Background In the past three years, I’ve ran a very light homelab with VMware ESXi. I mainly used my workstation (Supermicro X8DTH-6F) with Dual Xeon...
