The little Lenovo TS140 that could! Now with Xeon E3-1246v3!
Helping the Lenovo TS140 pack more punch with a new CPU with a practical explanation of CPU Ready Time and tips to improve it!
Intel Xeon E5-4600 v3-processors – ESXi Awesomeness!
Apparently the new E5-4600 v3 CPUs have been announced and the specs will be great for any virtual host. You can read more about it on Guru3D but the summary is that there are new Xeons coming out based on the Haswell architecture and they will range from 10-core to 18-core models, all with hyper-threading! So, in short, you could have 36 threads on one socket. Pretty awesome! Here’s a chart grabbed from Guru3D: Anxious to...
Dusty ol’ Pro/1000 VT
So in an effort to increase throughput on my ESXi hosts I’ve picked up a few of these Intel Pro/1000 VT quad port adapters. I am going to throw them in my desktop temporarily to make sure that they work and install properly, but I noticed something funny on this adapter: Something tells me port #3 wasn’t used very much – LOL So, here’s hoping it works! I will give an update once I have them installed and...
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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! 
