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    HP ProCurve 1410-24g Stacking/Daisy Chaining Question

    Been trying to figure this out, the 1410-24g has two SFP Ports. To stack two of them together, would it be better by SFP vs plain CAT6?
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    Set Up my First ESXI! Need some Advice and Guidence on Storage

    I see that Veeam has a really robust free edition of their backup software for VM's (https://www.veeam.com/virtual-machine-backup-solution-free.html), but I guess the issue is that the free ESXi does not have vSphere which is what Veeam needs?
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    Set Up my First ESXI! Need some Advice and Guidence on Storage

    I understand that the hypervisor is just a layer to interact with the hardware. I was wondering what would be the most resource efficient and speedy way to share that (possibly RAID5) storage volume over the network? What type of backup's are we talking about? The actual virtual machine images...
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    Set Up my First ESXI! Need some Advice and Guidence on Storage

    What are the practical differences between this free version and ESXi? (aside obviously for the unlimited CPU's and RAM) Also, how do other free offerings stack up against those from VMWare?
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    Set Up my First ESXI! Need some Advice and Guidence on Storage

    My NAS is holding a massive collection of photos and other very important files spanning some 11Tb. I have crashplan running on the box and it is always backing up, chewing up all the max available 4Gb of ram. I have looked into using it for Plex and other media applications and decided that it...
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    Set Up my First ESXI! Need some Advice and Guidence on Storage

    That makes sense. I actually have an old Linksys/Cisco NAS with 4 x 2tb drives which I can repurpose into 4 of those 8 bay's and RAID 5 them for media storage and sharing, then use the existing 2 x 1tb for storing the VM's and completely discard those 4 x 250gb drives. All I would need is the...
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    Set Up my First ESXI! Need some Advice and Guidence on Storage

    After posting I did some reading on the SAS 6/iR and discovered that it is handicapped quite badly. First, its throughput is just 3Gbps and not 6. Then, it is limited to just RAID 0 or 1 plus one support a total of two global hotspares - one per volume. So this card seems quite limiting. A...
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    Set Up my First ESXI! Need some Advice and Guidence on Storage

    After much research I finally set up ESXI 6.5 on this Dell PowerEdge T710 that I got (for free). Everything up until this point has sort of played out as I expected; Installed ESXI from a USB Stick to another one internally plugged into the motherboard (this system didn't come with the built-in...
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    PowerEdge T710 w/ Xeon E5530 - Need Tips on Virtualizing for Beginner

    I picked up - for free - an older Dell PowerEdge t710 with a single Xeon E5530 and 4gb of ram (2 dimms) and it has the enterprise iDRAC6 card. It also has 8 hotswapable bays in the front, but it does not have the PERC controller. I have been reading and poking around reading up on the various...
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    Home/Office Network Upgrades - LACP, Dedicated Router, New AP's and NAS Questions

    Never heard of the Zyxel option, I will look into it - but it all comes down to cost in the end as I am on a tight budget. Also, I am not so proficient in many of the advanced networking concepts, I know the basics and kinda make it work. Link Aggregation sounded cool and that it would...
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    Home/Office Network Upgrades - LACP, Dedicated Router, New AP's and NAS Questions

    I finally pulled the trigger on a new Synology 1813 - which comes with 4 internal network adapters - and I think it is time for me to invest in a proper managed (layer 2) switch. The devices I have been looking into is the 24-port variants of the HP Procurve 1810 and Dell PowerConnect 2824 -...
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    Synology DS1812+ or 1813+ - Worth the $300 Price Difference?

    So a little while back you guys helped me settle on getting the Synology 8-bay Unit with WD Red's [against building my own], but I didn't pull the trigger until I had the funds lined up. Now I am ready to go ahead and make my purchase, but I noted a price drop in my Amazon cart (from $1k~ to...
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    Need Help Choosing Network Switches for my Home and Home Office Network Backbone

    I am at a bit of a loss and would greatly appreciate any direction and suggestions. I recently renovated my house and ran all new CAT6 cables throughout. Everything terminates in a closet in my basement, which is also where my Home Office is. The office houses 6 workstations, MFP and TV with a...
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    Need Help Finding a 14" Portable Powerhouse

    I tried getting into 8 and I am much more comfortable with 7. Dont like the idea that I need 'mods' to get the start menu back etc. I guess it is just a matter of preference. Didnt know that IdeaPad was the junk line, an wouldnt have expect a junk line to get Haswell before the better...
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    Need Help Finding a 14" Portable Powerhouse

    Sooooo, I got my new y410 yesterday and after messing around with it I gotta say.... WHAT A PIECE OF JUNK! I am so let down by this purchase and will be returning it today. I will start with the overall build quality - CHEAP and FLIMSY! The screen has a 1.5 inch GLOSSY bezel wrapping it that...
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