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Intel X79 whitebox for vSphere 5 and Hyper-V 3

Ivo Beerens
Date : March 13, 2012
Categories : hardware ,homelab ,homebrew ,hyper-v ,vSphere ,whitebox
Tags : hardware ,homelab ,hyper-v-2 ,vSphere ,whitebox

In an earlier blog post (found here ) I mentioned that it is time for a new homebrew whitebox based on the Intel X79 chipset. With the X79 chipset it is possible to install 64GB of memory (8 x 8 GB). Because the 8 GB DIMMs are expensive on the moment, I decided to use 8 x 4GB DIMMs (total 32GB). I …

What about VMware Virtual Machine hardware versions

Ivo Beerens
Date : December 29, 2011
Categories : hardware ,tools ,VMware ,vpshere
Tags : hardware ,tools ,version ,VMware

It depends on the features you need. If you want for example use the “Changed Blocked Tracking (CBT)” feature, you need at least hardware version 7. In ESX 3.x hardware version 4 is introduced, in vSphere 4.x hardware version 7 is introduced and in vSphere 5 hardware version 8 is introduced. Here is …