Recent content by awesome_kyl3

Okay, so it looks I have it working, thanks to all of your help and suggestions. First thing I did was replace my Airport Extreme with pfSense. Once I had that out of the picture, and an actual configurable router, it was significantly easier to set up. I enabled DHCP in W2K12, then disabled...

So should I turn on DHCP on my Windows Server? If my clients could still use my router (if it hears it first), will it make a difference? I'm using Google's: 8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4 Default Server: UnKnown Address: ::1 Not sure what that means... I agree. I can understand the concept of DNS...

I thought about that. I'd like to eventually replace my Airport with something like pfSense or a better dedicated router, but I'd like to take it one thing at a time. I can see that I can enable a DHCP server on Wndows, but how would my clients know to use that instead of the router? In order...

I'm working on setting up a more robust and capable homelab, but I'm a bit confused how to set up my network. Right now I have a very simple setup: cable modem goes into my consumer router (Apple Airport Extreme) providing DHCP and NAT. I also have my own domain and use dyndns to point my domain...

It's a Supermicro X10SL7-F, Intel E3-1275v3, 32GB RAM, and I'm using a 16GB Sandisk Cruzer Fit as my ESXi storage.

I'm in the process of setting up my new server with ESXi, but I'm having a strange error. When I boot from my USB stick (where ESXi is installed) in UEFI mode, it first boots to the UEFI shell. If I type 'exit' to exit the shell, it does, and goes to my ESXI installation. In my BIOS, I have my...

I think for now, 250GB should be enough. I don't have very intense VM needs (for now) and many of the things I will use them for I can use an external share to store the data on (like Windows Updates, etc.). Once I have more VMs and a need for more space, I can then upgrade my VM storage. I'm...

Right, I meant napp-it with OmniOS (using his preconfigured VM). RAIDZ is really that slow? I'd considered just a bunch of mirrors, but I'm not sure it's worth losing half my storage capacity. I have a fair amount of data (mostly media) to store and the reason I was leaning towards RAIDZ2 is...

So I'm in the process of building an ESXi all-in-one so I can teach myself about virtualization and various networking technologies. To save space/money for now, I'm starting with an all-in-one centered around NAS4Free with a ZFS pool. You can read about my build here...