by Tom Fenton | Feb 25, 2021 | virtualization and cloud review, VMware
After installing, configuring my TM-431K NAS and creating an iSCSI target and NFS share on it I installed QNAP applications replace Dropbox to stream video and music from it. Read the full article at Virtualization & Cloud Review . Related Links: Home Lab NAS...
by Tom Fenton | Feb 25, 2021 | virtualization and cloud review, VMware
I decided to go with the QNAP TM-431K for my home lab NAS. Here is my writeup of installing and configurint it. Read the full article at Virtualization & Cloud Review . Related Links: Home Lab NAS (QNAP TS-431) Part 1: Intro and Specs Home Lab NAS (QNAP TS-431)...
by Tom Fenton | Feb 24, 2021 | virtualization and cloud review, VMware
After loosing a few VM’s due to lack of backups I decided to invest in a NAS. I this article I go through my thought process on why I decided to buy one rather than build one. Read the full article at Virtualization & Cloud Review . Related Links: Home Lab...
by Tom Fenton | Feb 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
If you use temporary licenses from MS technet you can examine, modify and extend (rearm) them using the slmgr command. Below are some of the commands that you can use. You will need to execute these commands from an Admin command prompt. slmgr.vbs /rearm ## renew your...
by Tom Fenton | Feb 10, 2021 | virtualization and cloud review, VMware
The Argon ONE M.2 case for a Raspberry Pi has a place to put a M.2 SATA SSD drive. I installed ESXi on it and used a Ubuntu VM to use it. This article details that experience and my thoughts on it. Read the full article at Virtualization & Cloud Review . Related...
by Tom Fenton | Feb 4, 2021 | virtualization and cloud review
In a previous article, I discussed how I used an inexpensive ($25) video capture card to capture HDMI output from a physical system. Unfortunatly the screen captures from that system were fuzzy. In this article I used a different device and was able to capture far...
by Tom Fenton | Feb 1, 2021 | virtualization and cloud review
If you ever have tried to capture screen caps during installs when you don’t have the ability to do screen caps you might want to try using an inexpensive HDMI to USB Capture Card. Mine was ~$20 and did a OK job. In another review I found one that did a better...
by Tom Fenton | Jan 29, 2021 | VMware
The other day I needed to download my script to automount a USB drive on a ESXi server from my GitHub repository. To do this I opened the Http Client port for the ESXi server and then executed wget...
by Tom Fenton | Jan 27, 2021 | Dell, HCI, Review, Storage, StorageReview.com, VMware
In this article I look at Dell new line of midrange storage devices PowerStore. This line should help them consolidate their existing storage lines (Unity XT, Compellent , XtremIO, and EqualLogic ) under a single platform. Read the full article...
by Tom Fenton | Jan 14, 2021 | dHCI, HCI, HPE, VMware, vVols
In this article I look at HPE’s implementation of disaggregated hyperconverged infrastructure (dHCI). dHCI is like to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) as it allows the management of compute and storage from a single management plane: vCenter Server, but dHCI...