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Home Lab Server and Storage Consolidation using ESXi 4.1 and Solaris 11

Posted on 2011/05/30 by wolf

It’s been too long since my last post, so without further ado… Recently I was doing some performance testing of my storage server.  Last I wrote about it, I was using OpenSolaris, but I’ve since moved on to Solaris 11 … Continue reading →

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New Super Quiet Supermicro X8SIL VMWare ESXi Server

Posted on 2009/10/22 by wolf

Update: VMWare ESXi 4.1 detects the SATA controller just find.  The separate SAS card is no longer necessary. The novelty of having a 1U server in my small apartment has worn off. Even on the workstation setting, the tiny fans … Continue reading →

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OpenSolaris on Gigabyte GA-P965-S3

Posted on 2009/06/07 by wolf

Now that I have a new box to run ESXi, I’ve repurposing my GA-P965-S3 based system for OpenSolaris.  I had a lot of trouble getting this to work.  I was initially using OpenSolaris 2008.11.  I could get it installed.  Reboot, … Continue reading →

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VMWare ESXi: GA-P965-S3 and Supermicro AS-1021M-T2+B

Posted on 2009/05/31 by wolf

I have now built a couple ESXi machines at home and it can be tough finding hardware that you know is going to work with ESXi.  I thought I would contribute a couple working configurations. Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P965-S3 rev 1.0 … Continue reading →

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