When was the last time you cleared the dust from your Home Lab? I’ve been eagerly anticipating the arrival of my DDR4 RAM, and at the same time, I decided it was a perfect opportunity to give my servers a good cleaning. My cases, the Be Quiet Pure Base 500 and Lian Li LANCOOL II…
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Home Lab 2023: A Snapshot of its Current State
Servers: TOTAL:CPU 84 Core/ 168 + 16 CoreRAM 1.5 TB + 128 GBNVMe 89.44 TBSSD 4.4 TBHDD 4.5 TBNetwork 100 GbE + 10 GbE ESX-1 CPU Intel Xeon Platinum 8176 28C 56T LGA3647 Skylake 165W CPU Cooler Noctua NH-D9 DX-3647 4UMotherboard SuperMicro X11SPi-TFNetwork NIC 2x RJ45 10GBase-T portsNetwork NIC 1x RJ45 1GBase-T ports RAM…
Another Significant Achievement: My Home Lab Just Got 1.5 TB RAM! 832GB Just Arrived!
NB: It arrived in July, and I wrote about it then, but I only made the post publicly available now. I’ve been looking forward to this since I started my Home Lab. I wanted to put as much RAM as possible in each ESXi server. RAM used to be really expensive, about $900, but now…
Resolving the 503 Service Unavailable Error in vSAN After ESXi Host Restart: A Simple, Patience-Based Solution
vSAN Error: 503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint: [N7Vmacore4Http16LocalServiceSpecE:0x00000089b916ed00] _serverNamespace = / action = Allow _po Error: 503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint: [N7Vmacore4Http16LocalServiceSpecE:0x000000a63051bb30] _serverNamespace = / action = Allow _port = 8309) You have vSAN and have restarted your ESXi host. Everything boots up and appears normal, but when you…
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Cloud Gaming: Effortlessly Passthrough keyboard and mouse to Virtual Machine. Enjoy the latency-free gaming experience.
I have enjoyed gaming over VMware Horizon for a few months, and I had a minor issue with the keyboard and mouse. From time to time, during the most critical gaming times when I am fighting, I trigger the macOS keyboard and mouse shortcuts. Here are just a few examples: + Resizing Horizon Client Window…
True Surround Sound with VMware Horizon
I have enjoyed gaming over VMware Horizon for a few months, and I thought it was time to push the limits further. Would I be able to get True Surround Sound or Dolby Atmos, and how would it make a difference in games? Before, I used Philips FW-M55 as my Mac Mini M1 speakers. My…
vExpert Home Lab Gift 2022-NUC the most practical and helpful gift.
All vExperts who signed up at the right time received a NUC as a gift to help them out with Home Labbing and their career, and definitely, this NUC will pass the wife’s approval factor. Corey and Eric, needed to go the extra mile to make it happen, and Cohesity sponsored the gift. Thank you…
Cloud Gaming: What’s it like playing the most graphically demanding games inside a VM using Horizon Direct-Connect? Can it replace bare-metal gaming PCs?
This holiday took a different route from what I had planned on. I was planning to learn vCloud Directory and NSX, and heading off to visit some other countries. I was mentally tired from work, and I felt like dead person, but I came across topic so interesting that I could not let go before…
Nvidia Tesla K80+ vSphere 7 U3+ Horizon + W11- Complete Installation and Setup Guide for Gaming
eBook- VMware vSphere 7 U3 + Horizon + Nvidia Tesla K80+ W11 VMware vSphere 7 + Horizon+ Nvidia Tesla K80 + Complete Installation and Setup Guide for Gaming My Blog Post: Cloud Gaming: What’s it like playing the most graphically demanding games inside a VM using Horizon Direct-Connect? Can it replace bare-metal gaming PCs? I…