When it comes to build a power friendly ESXi host, one of the first things is to think about power supply. Take in mind that the host will be running 7/7 and so power efficiency is parameter to take into account. After all, next upgrade you might be planning for your lab will be 2-3 years […]
Atlantis USX in my lab – Installation and configuration
The Atlantis USX deployment is dead easy. It’s a simple virtual appliance which gets deployed to your host via vSphere client. File > Deploy OVF template is your friend. You’ll chose the obvious network informations and disk types (thin/thick/zeroeagerthick)… That’s the easy part…. but what’s next is not difficult but needs some planning. You’ll need […]
Atlantis USX in my lab – Introduction
After successful test of VMware VSAN in my lab I wanted to try another hyper converged software solution. This time from Atlantis computing. Their solution is called Atlantis USX and it’s currently in version 2.1. In my small lab the only way to test it was basically uninstall VSAN to free the disk space and […]
How to Delete VSAN Datastore – Lab Time
In case like me, you are testing other software solutions in a lab, then you need to destroy stuff to re-claim your hardware for something else. Previously I setup a VSAN cluster in my lab. Now when done, I tested VSAN for some time, I wanted to move on and test something else. So I […]
Install Free Starwind SAN on Free Hyper-V – Part 2
In the first part we have done quite a lot, but there is still more steps to come. We basically have those two Hyper-V nodes installed with Starwind Virtual SAN and we created some volumes on each of the node, which will be mirrored by Starwind. Now I’ll show you how to go further, setup the synchronous […]
Install Free StarWind SAN on Free Hyper-V – Part 1
The title says it all. It’s possible to install StarWind SAN software on a free Hyper-V Server from Microsoft. Yes the one without the actual GUI. And that’s a quite interesting (free) solution that I didn’t really consider so far, being mostly VMware consultant. But clients are clients. Right? The life of an IT consultant is dependant of […]
How-to Flash Dell Perc H310 with IT Firmware To Change Queue Depth from 25 to 600
Now, at first. This it totally unsupported by VMware or Dell, even if the firmware I’m flashing the card with is from Dell’s website. To tell you the whole story you should read My VSAN Journey and understand how the setup in my lab is built and why I’m doing this. I’m basically trying to […]
ESXi 6.x Free – what’s the limitations?
What’re the limitations of the ESXi 6.x Free Edition – the VMware vSphere Hypervisor? The free version of the VMware vSphere Hypervisor – ESXi 6.x, has got some limitations. I know it’s been discussed on many places already, but I’m still getting questions about that and so I wanted to clear this out. Which use cases […]
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