For the past few weeks I have slowly begun to build a working InfiniBand infrastructure on my vSphere cluster hosted in the office. I’m still missing some cables. With VMworld 2013 EMEA in Barcelona behind us, I’ve now got the time to publish the...
Introducing the new VSAN.info website, This website is not aimed at Corporate vSphere VSAN infrastructure, butthe people implementing VSAN in the homelabs. We have noticed an new interest in build labs to test out VSAN, but many questions on configurations and...
This is just a quick follow-up on my previous “Using VSAN Observer in vCenter 5.5” post. As mentioned recently by Duncan Epping (@DuncanYB) in his blog entry Virtual SAN news flash pt 1. The VSAN engineers have done a full root cause of the AHCI controller...
“VSAN observer is an experimental feature. It can be used to understand VSAN performance characteristics and as such is a tool intended for customers who desire deeper insight into VSAN as well as by VMware Support to analyze performance issues encountered in...
Update 20 March 2014. With the release of VMware ESXi 5.5.0 Update 1, this blog post is once again very popular. A lot of other articles, blogs and forum discussions have been using the Realtek R8168 driver link to my website, and this is starting to take an impact on...
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...
