Welcome to my Blog Series page. This page will enable readers to easily find my blog posts around specific topics – Enjoy!
Home Lab Gen V (01/2020 – Current)
- Home Lab GEN V: VIDEO The Quest for More Cores! – First Look
- Home Lab GEN V: BLOG The Quest for More Cores! Design Considerations
- Home Lab GEN V Build: Part 1 – VIDEO Build Components Overview
- Home Lab GEN V Build: Part 2 – VIDEO Case Selection
- Home Lab Gen V Build: Part 3 – VIDEO Motherboard Overview
- Home Lab Gen V Build: Part 4 – VIDEO First Install Steps
- Home Lab Gen V Build: Part 5 – VIDEO Motherboard Install
- Home Lab Gen V Build: Part 6 – VIDEO Final Steps
- Home Lab Gen V Build: Part 7 – VIDEO: Wrap up, Outcomes, and Design Changes
Home Lab Gen IV (10/2016 – 2019)
- Home Lab Gen IV – Part I: To InfiniBand and beyond!
- Home Lab Gen IV – Part II: Design Considerations
- Home Lab Gen IV – Part III: Best ESXi White box Mobo yet?
- Home Lab Gen IV – Part IV: Overcoming installation challenges
- Home Lab Gen IV – Part V Installing Mellanox HCAs with ESXi 6.5
Gigabyte MB31-SB0 (01/2017 – 2019)
- Gigabyte Firmware / BIOS update for MergePoint Embedded Management Software and Motherboard
- Home Lab Gen IV – Part III: Best ESXi White box Mobo yet?
vSAN (06/2014 – Active)
- vSAN – Working with the vSAN HCL Database
- VSAN – What’s new in vSAN 6.6 Video Demo
- VSAN – vSAN 6.6 Release resources
- Honeywell Next Generation Platform with Dell FX2 + VMware VSAN
- VSAN – Performance Degradation of Hybrid disk groups on VSAN 6.2 Deployments (2146267)
- VSAN – Setting up VSAN Observer in my Home Lab
- VSAN – The Migration from FreeNAS
- vSAN 1.0 Released Home lab update here I come!
GOLDMine Items (Always Active)
- Create an ESXi 6.0U2 installation ISO with Realtek 8168 Drivers
- How to pinpoint ESXi hardware devices with vmkchdev
- Home Lab: A List of uncommon or niche products
- P2V GOLD – Remove all Windows Non-Present devices at once via GUI and CLI!
- Turning a ‘No you cannot attend’ to a ‘Yes’ for VMworld
- Quick ways to check disk alignment with ESXi and Windows VM’s
- HP PSP, SmartStart, and Firmware Matrix – PURE GOLD
freeNAS (10/2013 – 08/2014)
- VSAN – The Migration from FreeNAS
- Home Lab – freeNAS build with LIAN LI PC-Q25, and Zotac M880G-ITX
- Home Lab – VMware ESXi 5.1 with iSCSI and freeNAS
- Home Lab – Adding freeNAS 8.3 iSCSI LUNS to ESXi 5.1
Xsigo in the Test Lab (01/2011)
- Day 1 – End of Day results
- Day 2 CLI with the Xsigo!
- Day 3 ESXi 4.1 Setup with Xsigo, NFS, and the ix12
- Day 4 Xsigo Redundancy testing with ESXi
- Day 5 Expanding the IOMega ix12-300r
- Day 6 Xsigo Redundancy testing with ESXi under load (Final Post)
