Last week VMware released vSphere 7. The first thing I did was upgrading my homelab. My homelab has two hosts (Shuttle SH370R6 Plus and a Shuttle SH370R8 Plus). After upgrading my hosts from VMware ESXi 6.7 Update 3 to VMware ESXi 7, the NVMe SSDs are not recognized anymore. I Have the following …
Continue ReadingWilliam Lam has started a great initiative. William asked (link ) everyone who owns a homelab to share there build of materials (BOM) and configuration so the vCommunity can benefit and learn from. I have a simple homelab configuration, the materials I used and configuration are listed below: …
Continue ReadingIn January 2019 I did a review of the Shuttle SH370R6 (link ) using VMware ESXi. A couple of weeks ago the new Shuttle SH370R8 is released. The main differences between the Shuttle SH370R6 and SH370R8 are: Update October 19, 2020: Supports up to 128 GB of RAM! Memory compatibility list: link Ready …
Continue ReadingIn my homelab I use a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite 3-port and UniFi AC Access Points for some time now. After upgrading the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter to the latest firmware (EdgeOS 1.10.1) my WIFI devices where unable to get an IP address. I have different VLANs defined on the EdgeRouter for the WIFI …
Continue ReadingFor my home lab I bought a 6th generation Intel NUC. The Intel NUC has following specifications: Intel NUC6i3SYH Intel i3-6100u (Skylake) 2.3 GHz Dual Core, 3 MB cache, 15W TDP 2 memory slots for DDR4-2133 SODIMM memory, maximum is 32 GB memory Intel HD Graphics 520 GPU Intel I219-V Gigabit network …
Continue ReadingLast month I extended my VMware ESXi and Hyper-V home lab with a Samsung 950 Pro SSD. The Samsung 950 Pro SSD is the next-gen SSD that has the following characteristics: Uses V-NAND memory and the Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVME) protocol. This takes away the 600 MBps bandwidth limit with the SATA …
Continue ReadingIn 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 …
Continue ReadingWhen using a whitebox lab environment at home and like to test for example vSphere 5, vCloud Director, VMware View and MS Hyper-V (nested in VMware vSphere you need a lot of processor power and memory. In almost all whitebox lab environment the processor power is not the problem but the amount of …
Continue ReadingIf you want a low power consumption whitebox motherboard to run some VMs that are not resource intensive the Asus E35M1-M PRO Zacate motherboard is an option. It has an AMD E-350 dual core 1,6 GHz processor with passive cooling, onboard graphics, max 8GB memory support, onboard LAN and 5x SATA 6 …
Continue ReadingFor my home lab i was looking for a home server with NAS functionality. My current Iomega IX2 (2x500GB) NAS is replaced by this server. For this server I had the following requirements Low power consumption (24x7) Low noise Flexibly and room to expand with extra hard drive(s),hardware RAID and a NIC …
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