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…
My Experience with the Sonos Era 300 as Computer Speakers
I’ve been on the lookout for good computer speakers. I started with an old Philips music center and then moved on to the Sony HT-A7000 soundbar. The Sony was great but way too big for my desk and took up a lot of space. I like a clean desk, but I needed better speakers for…
Replacing the iPhone SE (1st gen) battery with an iFixit replacement
I’ve been using the iPhone SE (1st generation) since it was first released (31.03.2016). It was my phone from 2016 to October 2023. The phone appears to be in very good condition, and everything functions properly. However, the battery was completely dead, so I had it replaced when Apple offered an official replacement service a…
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After restarting the nested ESXi 8.0U1a hosts, the management configuration will either be erased or not properly saved.
ESXi-8.0U1a-21813344-standard I encountered a strange issue while setting up my nested ESXi lab. Specifically, when configuring the management IP of the ESXi host, I noticed that it was not being saved after a system restart. Take a look at the video to get a better understanding of the problem. Just to be sure, I am…
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…