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Category Archives: NanoLab
NanoLab – Index of Tekhead.it Posts on Intel NUC VMware vSphere Homelabs
Starting in January 2013, my Intel NUC series is now over has reached the heady heights of double digits over the past few years, so I figured it [..]
Open Homelab Project – Preview – Part Deux
For those of you who keep a regular eye on my ramblings and mutterings, you may have noticed that since my presentation at the London VMUG a couple [..]
NanoLab – Part 10 – Your NUCs are nice and cool, but what about your stick?
I have been running a variety of Intel NUC nodes in my vSphere homelab over the past 3 years now, including the D34010WYKH, DC3217IYE & DC53427HYE. In that [..]
NanoLab – Part 9 – Installing VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5 on Intel NUC
I successfully ran my VMware vSphere ESXi 5.1 Nanolab for 18 months on my pair of Intel NUC DC3217IYE hosts. Early this year I got around to upgrading to 5.5. I [..]