Bays for days: Intel S2600CP2J meets Supermicro 24-bay SC846
A quest for more drive bays comes to an end with an affordable, redundant, hot-swappable solution from Supermicro. Check out this Intel/Supermicro hybrid!
DIY SAN/NAS – quest for fast, reliable, shared storage with a twist of ZFS! (Part 1)
Choosing prebuilt SAN is cheating – let’s build something from nothing and learn ZFS on the way! Read more about my FreeNAS/ZFS adventure using a Dell R510.
ESXi Embeded Host Client to work with ESXi Free License in 6.0 Update 2
A technical lead from VMware suggests that the Embedded Host Client fling will support the free ESXi licenses with the release of ESXi 6.0 Update 2!
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!
Updating ESXi host w/ latest ESXi Embedded Host Client
With the release of v4 of the ESXi Embedded Host Client we can now perform ESXi upgrades from within the UI itself. There’s a couple caveats but they are easily overcome. Read more!
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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! 
