vBrisket Career Development Panel on May 1
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VMware Homelab
Thomas Breakiron’s Home Lab talk at WPVMUG
Tom was gracious enough to give me a copy of his extensive “Home Lab Presentation” to post on vBrisket.com, thanks Tom!!! »
VMware Homelab Layout
Now that I have my VMware Homelab built and somewhat configured, I have decided to move it to a new location. The basement is my best logical choice since my daughters both share a room and I am losing my man cave. I said I was never giving it up, but the basement will have to do. Atleast it’s close to my wine racks, I will need to make sure I have a corkscrew handy. I bought a 4-Tier She... »
VCSA Coredumps 100%
I have recently been having issues with the VCSA, the Web Client has been slow to authenticate and load, the interface used to be snappy after the improvements to the flash player settings compliments to William Lam Blog post. I also had issues with the thick client disconnecting and the VUM pluggin disabling. I would have to go to pluggins and enable it after it crashed. I would also get the ... »
VMware Homelab Presentation featuring Michael White
This was the 2nd vBrisket Community get together and it was held at Penn Brewery. Before the presentation, we setup two Raspberry Pi’s and had some fun playing retro video games like Double Dragon, Contra, Mortal Combat and Pacman. This event came together rather quickly, but we felt it was better to keep things rolling than to worry about attendance numbers. Michael White was gracious enou... »
All SSD VSAN Homelab (Part 1)
VSAN has been a pretty hot topic ever since VMware announced the beta program at VMworld 2013 in San Francisco. So I decided that I wanted to build a VSAN in my homelab, but I wanted to keep my homelab as quiet as possible and power consumption per host as low as possible. I have a 3 host setup with 4 SSD Drives in each host with no spinning disks. I remember seeing an article about an all flash... »
The Inaugural vBrisket Recap
We had a great turnout for the inaugural vBrisket event. Here is what I started with before letting the magic of low heat, smoke and time do it’s magic. We purchased 4 bags of charcoal, 2 Briskets weighing in at 15lbs each, 4 pork butts and 9 racks of ribs. It was great to get together with a smaller group of community driven people and discuss what makes us all geeks. The vBrisket crew i... »
VMware Homelab Networking
I bought a Netgear ProSAFE Plus XS708E 10-Gigabit 8 Port Ethernet Switch for my home lab. It looked like it was exactly what I wanted, spanning tree prevention, broadcast storm control, Port trunking, Port mirroring, Jumbo Frame Support, LAG and the price is right for a 10 GB network at $823.99. But the one thing I didn’t notice when I bought it was VLAN routing was not a feature(Layer 2 o... »
vMotion and 10GBE
With the new lab setup and running on a 10 GB network, I was interested to see how fast vMotion was, I was not disappointed. I also wanted to see just how much bandwidth the vmkernal nic consumed so I used Putty and connected directly to the host and ran ESXTOP. To view the network portion in ESXTOP, you hit the “n” on your keyboard to switch to “network”. In the screen s... »
IPMI on Supermicro Motherboard
No need to buy a KVM switch for your VMware Homelab when you buy the Supermicro 1150 MBD-X10SLH-F-O system board . It has a dedicated IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) LAN port that enables you to remotely access your host from a web browser. Go into the BIOS by hitting the DELETE key on your keyboard Scroll over to IPMI and hit the enter key Go down to the “BMCI Network Conf... »