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...
This post will explain how to use the vCenter Update Manager to create a custom Hewlett-Packard Extensions baseline, so that you can install the HP Drivers on your ESXi install and the HP CIM Management Tools. Having just purchased a set of HP Proliant ML110 G7, I...
Last friday, I came across this very interesting deal, Two HP ProLiant ML110 G7 with Xeon E3-1220 (Quad-Core @3.1Ghz) for the price of one. So Two HP ML110 G7 for $960 seemed a great bargain to me. I got some extra Kingston memory and I should have some decent lab...
I’ve been deploying a Cisco UCS Chassis with multiple Cisco B230 M2 Blades. Yet the uplinks switches of the Fabric Interconnect are medium-Enterprise sized Switches, and not some Nexus 5K or better. In a vSphere 5.0 cluster designs you add one or more NICs to...
