Previous case was fugly so figure to standardize it using Fractal cases. Oh boy are they pretty!! Also threw in some MAX5 Quad Bay and Tougharmor so I could hot-swap 2.5 Disk via the 5.5 Bay. MAX5 (5.5 to 4x 2.5SSD) are for my ESXi Tougharmor (5.5 to 6x 2.5SSD) is for my FreeNAS box
Over the weekend, I wanted to try VMware’s SDN solution: NSX… and being the lazy guy that I am- i didn’t read any documentations before going thru the installation. As result – installation wasn’t pretty. Here are the things that stopped me during the setup: IP Pools for the Network Controller not being deployed The IP Pool should relate to the dvPort Group that you chose. Also, the IP s
*start just geeky things* Don’t you just hate the USB sticking at the back of your home built ESXi box 🙁 Moving it is a bummer (I know, you can just plug-it out – but I’m lazy) as you need to make sure not to touch the USB stick. ENTER: Internal USB Header (woop woop) I just grabbed this baby off of ebay and now I don’t have to worry bumping the USB at the back. Look at the before and after p
First off …whats so special with Realtek NIC card? The Realtek NIC card is commonly seen in consumer motherboard. If you intend to run a whitebox ESXi for homelab use, tough luck as starting ESXi 5.5 VMWare has removed support to it. But do not fret. There are numerous ways to make it run. A simple google search would yield numerous results pointing to guides on how to side slip the ESXi 5.1 drivers to a ESXi 5
One advantage in living in a 1st world country: access to cheap 2nd hand hardware! Lurking in HW forums, I manage to snag some nice gear to build my ESXi Lab. I wanted to make it as close as what production setup would like configuration wise. In the end, here’s my configuration I used to prepare for my VCP-CLOUD certification: ESXi Host 5.1 (installed via USB): i3 2100 16GB Memory DDR3 Shared Storage: Synolog