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…
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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…
NSX-T 3.0 Command-Line Interface Reference
Copy and paste from this link https://vdc-download.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/cc42e3c1-eb34-4567-a916-147e79798957/8264605c-a5e1-49a8-b603-cc78621eeeab/cli.html#about
Nested ESXi on Top of a vSAN Datastore
To run a nested ESXi on top of vSAN, you have to make a quick hack. Thanks again to William Lam, who figured it out. Here is the copy from his blog post and a direct link to the post:
ESXTOP Is Not Displaying Properly on macOS Big Sur Terminal
ESXTOP is displaying interactive UI as CSV output. Type “TERM=xterm “and done Make it permanent. Terminal > Preferences. Under Profiles> Advanced If you want to display what the current terminal declaration type is, use “echo $TERM”
100G QSFP28 Home Lab (Home Micro Data Center) Speed Test- Phase 1
So, I rebuilt my home lab, re-installed my ESXi servers, set up vSAN, vMotion, and so on. 100Gb QSFP28 Speed Test Between ESXi Hosts I have been waiting so long to discover the actual performance with 100Gb NICs. William Lam told me that iPerf3 is included with ESXi. I just enabled SSH on each host….
Low Price DAC 100G QSFP28 and Cat6 Copper Trunk Cables – Phase 1
100G QSFP28 Passive Direct Attach Copper Twinax (DAC) Many enterprise switches and NICs can only use certified DAC/AOC and transceivers. Mostly they are very expensive. A good place to look for them is FS.com. They can provide cables for known brands like Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, Juniper, Arista, Mellanox, and so on. They can even…
HP Mellanox CX455A 100GbE QSFP28 Network Controller PCIe x16- Phase 1
I was keeping an eye on different NICs when the right wave came. I managed to buy a CX455A. I bought 3 NICs because I have three servers where I can use them. One NIC was dead, and it got replaced very quickly with another. So, thank you to the eBay seller who sent me…
100GbE QSFP28 Switch Dell S4112T-ON (Phase 1)
I had been looking for a 100GbE switch for a long time, and I like that the switch has the exact number of ports for my home lab. Many 100GbE switches have more than 28 ports, but I don’t need as many. I need only three. The 100GbE QSFP28 is 2nd Generation and 4 x…