Shortly after VMworld 2020, VMware released (after years of announcing and demoing) the ESXi On ARM fling (*1). On Social media and the community ESXi on ARM is a very hot topic. The ESXi ARM fling makes it possible to run the VMware ESXi hypervisor on ARM platforms such as: Avantek Workstation and …
Continue ReadingFor my home lab I needed a new host that replaces my Intel NUC (link ) that act as management host. The hardware resources (CPU and memory) on the NUC were limiting my lab activities. I had the following requirements for the new home lab host: Ability to run the latest VMware ESXi 6.7 U1 version …
Continue ReadingAfter putting my NAS in a separate storage VLAN I noticed that my network throughput was slow to and from the NAS. The throughput of a simple file copy from a windows laptop (wired at 1 GbE) to a SMB share on the NAS was only 17,7 MB. The Windows laptop was on a different VLAN then the NAS. After …
Continue ReadingWith my company I work for (Ictivity ), we decided to develop a mobile Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) and End User Computing (EUC) lab environment. This mobile lab environment will be used to demo the VMware SDDC and End User Computing (EUC) stack with integration of third party solutions. One …
Continue ReadingFor a couple of months I’m searching for an extra whitebox host for extending my home lab environment. My current lab whitebox is a Haswell based whitebox (see: link). Here is an overview of the new lab environment: For the new whitebox I had the following requirements: Hardware such as NICs must be …
Continue ReadingI was searching for a new whitebox for my home lab. I had the following requirements for the new whitebox: Low power consumption for 24x7 running >16 GB memory Expansion slots for PCI(-E) cards Good performance Low noise A couple of weeks ago Intel released the new 4th generation Haswell CPUs …
Continue ReadingI have a lab at home to test for example VMware vSphere and Microsoft stuff. Running your home lab for 24/7 will result in a high electricity bill. For a couple of months I use the Internet Control Station ICS-1000 (ICS-1000) to power on my home lab when needed from anywhere. The ICS-1000 controls …
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