This post will serve as the 10,000 ft overview of my environment and what it all consists of. I plan to follow up this post with a series of smaller posts breaking down my Home Lab into the following sections: (as I update these blog posts, links will appear and become active) Home Lab Servers…
This past week, I had a failed port one one of my C2100’s. The specific part was a Intel PRO/1000 VT Quad Port Gigabit PCI-E Ethernet Network Adapter (HM9JY). Now just one single port failed and I was using all 4 ports for iSCSI from my FreeNAS C2100 to my esxi cluster. Luckily I have…
Set a Static IP on your ESXi Host V5.5 Assigning a static IP to your ESXi host is extremely easy to do, and is highly recommended as you will always want your host to have the same IP. Notes: If your network is set up without DHCP, then you will have to do this from…
Would you like to be able to have a Datastore full of all your .iso’s and other bootable files? Well we can accomplish that by setting up an NFS Share in Windows! First off we are going to need to set up an NFS Share on your Windows Server. To do this you need to…