The Little R620 that Could – 40TB ZFS/ESXi in 1U!? Part 1
Check out this article where we build a 1U box capable of housing 40TB worth of storage while also serving as a serious ESXi host!
Dude you’re getting a Dell, again! My “brand new” R710!
Dude you’re getting a Dell, again! This blog entry documents the brand new Dell R710 I found on eBay and how I prep it to be a second host in my vSphere 6 cluster!
Dell Customized ESXi 6.0 Update 1 released
Dell releases their customized ISO for ESXi 6.0 Update 1!
Breathing some life into my R710
I recently picked up a (a few months ago) Dell R710 in order to leverage its higher memory and CPU capacity compared to the 2950 III’s I run from time to time in my lab. I bought it with dual Xeon E5530 CPUs which are 4-core CPUs clocked at 2.4 GHz. It only came with 12GB of DDR3 RAM, however, which is a bit limiting for an ESXi host. My plan is to swap the E5530’s with E5649 (6-core, 2.53 GHz) or X5670’s (6-core,...
Dell OpenManage Server Adminstrator and vSphere 6
Dell recently released a version of OMSA agent/provider compatible with ESXi 6.0 and it works really, really well. More details inside!
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I am a Sr. Systems Engineer by profession and am interested in all aspects of technology. I am most interested in virtualization, storage, and enterprise hardware. I am also interested in leveraging public and private cloud technologies such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and vRealize Automation/vCloud Director. When not working with technology I enjoy building high performance cars and dabbling with photography. Thanks for checking out my blog! 
