I’ve had a few questions about my Homelab 2014 upgrade hardware and settings. So here is a follow-up. This is just a photo collection of the various stages of the build. Compared to my previous homelabs that where designed for a small footprint, this one...
In my previous post, I described the building of two Linux virtual machines to benchmark the network. Here are the results. The first blip, is running iperf to the maximum speed between the two Linux VMs at 1Gbps, on separate hosts using Intel I350-T2 adapters....
Last summer, while reading the ServeTheHome.com website, I saw a great link to Ebay for Mellanox ConnectX-3 VPI cards (MCX354A-FCBT). These cards where selling at $299 on ebay. I took three of the awesome cards. These Mellanox ConnectX-3 VPI adapters where simply too...
Tomorrow, the London VMUG will happen in London. I will give a Lightning Talk about InfiniBand in the Lab, and why for small labs, the InfiniBand is a solution that can be more performant and much cheaper than 10Gb Ethernet. Here is the Presentation that will be given...
A followup to my adventures of InfiniBand in the lab… and the vBrownbag Tech Talk about InfiniBand in the lab I did at VMworld 2013 in Barcelona . In this post I will cover how to install the InfiniBand drivers and various protocols in vSphere 5.5. This...
