I’ve long been an advocate for using Distributed vSwitches (dVS) in vSphere. The single point of management, coupled with added functionality such as load-based teaming and NIOC, is a huge advantage over Standard vSwitches.
However, there’s always Continue reading
VSAN
My (self-inflicted) VSAN nightmare
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
Upping my homelab game
Recently 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
