Here is my new network core switch for the Home Datacenter, a Cisco Nexus 3064PQ-10GE. But before I speak more about the Cisco Nexus 3064PQ-10GE, let me just bring you back in time… Two years ago, I purchased a Cisco SG500XG-8F8T 16-port 10-Gigabit Stackable...
I’ve recently finished upgrading the Home Datacenter (#HomeDC) to vSphere 6.0 with four hosts running VSAN 6.0 with dual 10GbE networking for each host. Even running a few large virtual machines on the VSAN Datastore like VDP 6.0 with a 4TB backed disk, I found...
I’ve been looking for a while for a new more powerful homelab (for home), that scales and passes the limits I currently have. I had a great success last year with the Supermicro X9SRL-F motherboard for the Home NAS (Running NexentaStor 3.1.5), so I know I loved the...
This isn’t really a blog where you will get a recipe on how to implement VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) or InfiniBand technologies, but more a small account of my troubles I experienced yesterday with my infrastructure. I did publish a picture yesterday on twitter,...
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...
