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My (self-inflicted) VSAN nightmare

May 2, 2016May 2, 2016 / Mark Brookfield / 7 Comments

A few weeks back I completely refreshed my homelab to include three new hosts and VMware VSAN. Despite being initially pleased with the setup, there was one job I forgot to do before configuring VSAN.

And it has been pain all the way since. Continue reading →

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Upping my homelab game

April 13, 2016April 18, 2016 / Mark Brookfield / 22 Comments

20160413 - 1Recently I’ve been toying with the idea of a homelab refresh. My current Dell and Cisco hardware has performed well over the years, and is still very powerful. However new technologies such as All-Flash VSAN and Azure Stack require enterprise-level hardware such as 10GbE and vast amounts of memory. Continue reading →

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Mark Brookfield is a technical architect, specialising in cloud automation and end-user computing. Other tech interests include dabbling with NetBSD Unix on Cobalt Qube hardware.

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