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vSphere Homelabs in 2014 – scale up or scale out?

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Quite a few cool posts on home labs lately triggers this post concerning vSphere Homelabs in 2014 – designs and evolution. There was the first one I spotted on Erik Bussink’s blog yesterday which talks about Shift in homelab designs. Erik is right when saying that the requirements for homelab are exploding.  And now he just […]

Check out the TOP vBlog 2014 Results

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Last night I was watching (or trying to) the TOP vBlog 2014 voting live with @ericsiebert @jtroyer @RickVanover and @davidmdavis. Awesome event, great competition and excellent motivation for the future. This year there was 320 blogs participating. The list is just huge….-:) There was over 1400 votes this year compared to around 1300 last year. The number of […]

My VSAN Journey Part 3 – VSAN IO cards – search the VMware HCL

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I’m in a phase to build my own VSAN home-brewed cluster. I’m using mostly consumer parts, but where I probably won’t, it’s the IO card. Because it’s the IO card which make the disks visible to VSAN. It’s the card which will affect your system’s stability and reliability, so even I’m planing for homelab, I […]

My VSAN journey – Part 2 – How-to delete partitions to prepare disks for VSAN if the disks aren’t clean

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In part one of My VSAN journey I outlined the possibility to “clean” your disks if they were previously installed with VSAN or had partitions of different OS on it. You could also see my thought on going cheap on a homelab VSAN nodes with a Haswell low power node. As I was the part […]

VMware vSphere 5.5 Fast Track Training Available

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The latest Fast Track training is available from VMware Education. It’s 5 day’s in depth training which availability has been announced last week by VMware. It’s one of the possible trainings which is necessary to become a VCP certified – VMware Certified Professional. You can find the required (or) recommended trainings on each of the links […]

VMware vSphere 5.5 Update 1 Released

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VMware has released their latest update to vSphere 5.5 Update 1. This update includes most of the vCloud Suite products, including VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN). VMware VSAN (detailed post here: VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) 1.0 GA – FAQ, Pricing and Design Options) has been long awaited storage feature which is “baked” into the hypervizor and which enables […]

Synology Disk Station Manager 5.0 download available

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Many homelabs do use Synology NAS devices for virtualization, but not only. Synology has just released a new update enhancing the DiskStation Manager to version 5.0. It’s the latest operating system that is used all range of NAS devices. One of the new features is a new user interface that comes with a high-resolution mode for Ultra […]

VMware released Horizon Mirage 4.4 with Windows 8.x support and new Mirage Gateway

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VMware released Horizon Mirage 4.4 which supports management of endpoints running Windows 8.0 and Windows 8.1, in addition to existing OS starting with Windows XP. Additional new feature called Mirage Gateway allows secure centralized management of remote endpoints without the need of VPN. Additional enhancements integrates even more the Horizon Mirage product with Horizon View offering […]