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 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!
Slight improvements – Network and server upgrades
I’ve had my test/personal VMware ESXi setup running for a bit now on my Dell PowerEdge 2950 III with the upgraded Xeon 5450 CPUs (originally came with E5405) resulting in dual quad-core Xeons at 3.0GHz. It’s pretty snappy especially for how little I spent on it. However, everyone knows you can’t really mess with much in VMware without memory. So, I’ve replaced the 8GB (2GB x 4) of RAM that the system arrived...
Creating a VMware ESXi environment on the cheap
Lately I’ve been wanting to build a VMware environment of my own so I can test various things without any worry. It’ll also give me the opportunity to setup a domain again, a vCenter server, my various Linux projects, etc. I’ll also be able to test the networking aspects as well. The only problem is finding a suitable server to run VMware ESXi on. I started checking out eBay and found Dell 2950 III’s that were...
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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! 
