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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 [..]
Software Defined Storage Virtualisation – How useful is that then?
Ignoring the buzzword bingo post title, storage virtualisation is not a new thing (and for my American cousins, yes, it should be spelt with an s! 🙂 ). NetApp [..]
Storage, Tech Field Day
data gravity, Data Inertia, IOPS, IT Strategy, Latency, NetApp, NFS, ONTAP, Oracle, Primary Data, QoS, RMAN, SDS, Single Pane of Glass, SLO, SMB, SPoG, Steve Wozniak, V-Series, VMware, vSphere, VVOL, VVOLs
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 [..]
Fix for VMware Remote Console unrecoverable error: (vmrc)
Uber quick post here with a very simple fix. I got the following error when upgrading my C# viclient from 5.5 to 6.0 and connecting to my new [..]