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...
These are my build notes of my last server. This server is based around the Supermicro X10SDV-4C-7TP4F motherboard that I already described in my previous article (Bill-of-Materials). For the Case I select a Fractal Design Node 804 square small chassis. It is...
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 recently redesigned my network configuration from a single /24 address range to multiple /24 ranges with routing done on my core switch. Part of this change meant shutdown the vSphere cluster, and the storage arrays (Synology) and reassigning new IP addresses and...
Here is a resume on how to upgrade a LSI SAS3 HBA 9300-8i card to the latest BIOS & Firmware using the UEFI mode. This is applicable to my homelab Supermicro X9SRH-7TF or any other motherboard with UEFI Build-In EFI Shell. I’ve found that using the UEFI mode...
