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    Virtualisation upgrade

    Hi My current machine is approaching the 6 year mark and although it's still going pretty well it could do with an upgrade considering how much I use it for my work and studies. Currently I have: Intel i7 3770 3.4ghz with BeQuiet BK017 CPU cooler 32GB DDR3 1600mhz (4 x 8GB) Asus P8Z77-V...
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    CyberPower CP1500EPFCLCD

    I am interested in purchasing the UK version of this UPS: http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/products/19056-cyberpower-cp1500epfclcd-uk/specifications/#content In the product description it says all 6 power outlets are on battery. When I emailed them to confirm they said it APPEARS that way. I...
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    Netgear XS708T

    Also, can I use the following cable with this Netgear switch: Cisco 3M SFP+ Cable 10Gb 37-0961-01 SFP-H10GB-CU3M Will it work? Or do I need a Netgear SFP+ cable?
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    Netgear XS708T

    Hi All Next month I'll be purchasing the Netgear XS708T which is a 10Gb switch with 8 RJ45 ports and 2 SFP (which are shared). I'll be connecting my ESXi 6 hosts to 6 of the RJ45 ports. I currently have a server that I will be setting up as an iSCSI SAN. It has the following NIC: Intel...
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    Cisco console cable

    Thank you all but was able to connect via the swiitches IP in the end so didn't need to purchase any kind of serial/IUSB cable!
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    Cisco console cable

    Hi All I have just bought the Cisco SG300-28 switch but it didn't come with a console cable. I am looking for a serial to USB console cable that can be used with this switch. Can someone recommend a cable that will work with this particular switch? After looking online I am a bit confused...
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    SFP+ question

    I'm about to purchase the following 10Gb switch: XS708T | Product | Support | NETGEAR It has 8 10Gb RJ45 (copper) ports and two SFP+ ports. My knowledge of SFP+ ports is minimal so I have some questions about this switch. Two of my servers have two 10Gb RJ45 Ethernet ports each on them so...
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    Fiber Channel SAN

    Thanks for the links! I've been giving this some more thought and maybe I should be considering iSCSI (again!) over 10gb NICs using MPIO. The two Supermicro servers I am considering come with Dual 10G SFP+ so would the following work and be a good setup: 1) Use Windows Server 2012 R2 as an...
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    Fiber Channel SAN

    Ok, lets tackle this from another angle ;-) What software can I use for my SAN at home that will work with FC in my lab? I have a Supermicro X10SL7-F motherboard with 32GB of ECC RAM and a Xeon 1230v3 CPU. I'll have 8 SSD drives and one SATA HDD. I'd really like to give FC a try as I have read...
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    Fiber Channel SAN

    How would I use the Intel X520 cards without a 10GB switch? In the long run I am looking to have 3 ESXi nodes and shared storage. The reason I actually got interested in FC was due to the (from what I can tell) relative ease of setting it up and cost: Fibre Channel SAN on the Cheap(ish) -...
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    Fiber Channel SAN

    Hi All I'm about to setup a lab environment at home for my VCP6 studies. It'll consiist of two ESXi6 servers and a FreeNAS server for storage. Most of the storage in the FreeNAS box will be SSD based (to store the VMs) and there will proabably be no disks in the ESXi6 servers (except for a...
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    Citrix XenDesktop 7.9 vGPU

    I'm about to setup a vSphere 6 server at home for my Citrix studies. One of the things I would like to experiment with is HDX 3D Pro and vGPUs. Can anyone recommend a low profile (this is a must) video card that is compatible with HDX 3D Pro/XenDesktop 7.9 and vSphere 6? Thanks!
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    IBM M5015 - poor performance with ESXi 6

    I pretty much have given up on my RAID card so I removed it and connected the drives back to the LSI 2308 onboard controller. I noticed that the ESXi driver being used was version 19 for the LSI-2308. After visiting: VMware driver for LSI 2308 I noticed that version 20 was available so I...
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    IBM M5015 - poor performance with ESXi 6

    I have installed the latest ESXi vib driver for the card and in health status its all showing "normal" in the vSphere client (the drives are showing as RAID0 and optimal). I think the card is running in "write through" mode without the BBU so is there a way to FORCE the card to use "write...
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    IBM M5015 - poor performance with ESXi 6

    Because the write perforamce with ESXi is awful without a RAID card and cache.
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