The current home lab setup consists of an Intel Core i3-2100 with 16GB of DDR3, a USB drive for ESXi (on 6.5 right now) and a 3TB WD for the VMs. While the Intel i3 performs perfectly for my needs, I came across a Xeon E3-1220 (SR00F, Ivy Bridge), which should be even better! For […]
Read MoreAfter four years on an Intel i5-2500, I decided it was time for an upgrade. Also because I want to pass down some components to the other people in the household. I bought my i5-2500 back in 2012 which is four years ago. While it still performs admirably, and the new CPU will not be […]
Read MoreI recently switched laptops from the T440s to the T460s. I’ve long been a fan of the Thinkpads, both during the IBM period and the Lenovo reign of late. The T440s was a bit of a mistake in my opinion. Sure it performed as you’d expect, but the mouse was a huge pile of dung, […]
Read MoreAfter a longish break, here’s the next installment! So the server has been in production now since last September, and is running very well. After the previous post, this is what’s happened: Installed ESXi 6.0 update 1 + some post u1 patches Installed three VMs: Openbsd 5.8 PF router/firewall machine, Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview […]
Read MoreBecause I am impatient, I went ahead and got a motherboard, processor and memory. The components that I purchased were: Asrock H61M-DGS R2.0 (Model: H61M R2.0/M/ASRK, Part No: 90-MXGSQ0-A0UAYZ) 16 GB (2x8GB) Kingston HyperX Fury memory (DDR3, 1600MHz, HX316C10FBK2/16, individual memories are detected as: KHX1600C10D3/8G) Intel i3-2100 (2 cores, with hyperthreading) I ended up with […]
Read MoreFirst an editorial correction to the previous post. An Intel B85 chipset motherboard will not support my current LGA1155 socket i5 processor, because that chipset is meant for the 4th Generation stuff (i.e. Haswell). Forget I wrote that. And meanwhile, back at the content: The case arrived last friday, and it’s a nice one! I’ve […]
Read MoreToday I officially started my new home server build by ordering a case. The requirements for building a new home server are the following: It needs to be physically small It needs to be able to operate quietly It needs to utilize some current hardware to reduce cost It needs to be able to run […]
Read MorePrep work Every single blog probably has a post like this, but I figured it’d be good to recount my Windows 10 experiences. For posterity reasons, if nothing else. I was involved in the Windows Insider program for quite some time (since the 9000-series builds), and have run Windows 10 pretty happily in a number […]
Read MoreNote! This article describes a product that wasn’t released yet, so things might have changed from this to the release version! Some of the screenshots are from the release version of the Recovery Media Note! Some of the images are from a different run than described, so ignore possible inconsistencies. A prospective customer was having […]
Read MoreSo this is pretty basic stuff, but I find myself looking up the exact procedure a few times a year because I forget some minor detail somewhere. The basic premise is that I want to connect to a host, but that host can only be connected to by another host. So the whole chain looks […]
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