The parts have all landed (finally) including the extra fans I needed.Here’s the install pic showing the extra CPUs, fans, memory and 25Gbit RNDC card installed. Luckily the RAM from the old Gibson was also compatible with the new hardware, so I’ve pulled some extra memory. ESX installed, hosts cut over and the old ones…
THE HARDWARE HAS LANDED. Well some of it anyway, and I was ready to build but… (there’s usually a but with IT projects). There’s some stuff I forgot/overlooked/got blindsided by. 1: Since I bought single socket servers, I forgot about the CPU heatsinks.2: The single socket servers don’t have fans in front of the empty…
The time has come to upgrade the Gibson, for two main reasons. I’m running out of resources for the projects I’m trying to simulate, and the Broadwell CPUs in my existing hardware will be deprecated with VCF 9, which is on the horizon. There’s going to be a lot of labbing and learning required when…
In this article, I’d like to talk about some advanced networking use-cases when deploying a VLC Holodeck environment into your lab. The supplied documentation only covers deployment onto a single host – this can be restrictive due to the amount of compute resources required to spin up a nested VCF environment. By following this guide,…
When I was purchasing SSDs for my Home Lab, there wasn’t a lot of useful benchmarks out there for my use-case. I started out with the cheapest, they are all the same right? Wrong. My main use-case is nested VMware Cloud Foundation which is already very resource intensive, but hammers the storage due to the…