There is many ways to install ESXi hypervisor. Homelab enthusiasts runs ESXi from USB stick most of the time. Why you might ask? There are several reasons for that. One of them is because it saves one SATA port (in case your motherboard is limited). Another reason is that you can actually go “disk-less” and have only […]
Top Three Lightweight Linux VMs for VMware vSphere Lab environment
For VMware vSphere Lab testing you need testing VM. I’ve gathered Top Three Lightweight Linux Distros which can be used as testing VMs in a VMware lab environment. A testing VM is a VM which is not a filer or other type of VM that provides core network services for your lab environment (DC, DNS, […]
Supermicro Single CPU Board for ESXi Home lab – X10SRH-CLN4F
It’s time to do another home lab build! This time I want to break the RAM barrier for Homelab white box. In the past when I use to build a white boxes at the end I got always stuck not by CPU performance, but RAM limit. With 24Gb, 32Gb or 64Gb RAM respectively. No matter how […]
ESXi Home Lab – Get a quality and comfortable case
One of the mistakes in the past that I’ve done when building ESXi Home Lab was that I wanted to stay cheap as much as I could on choosing an entry level PC case. Or once I took an option to build a NAS in mini PC case. It’s possible, but I remember that the […]
Building Power Efficient ESXi Server – Start with an Efficient Power Supply
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 […]
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