October 25, 2012 – vBrownBag

Homelab Rebuild – Part 1 “Design”

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Cody Bunch

Design in quotes, because, like all good plans, it’s only good until I start laying the bits down. So far: Gear My old VMware lab comprised a number of things: 3x “Baby Dragon” compute nodes 1x Open Compute Gen1 Intel (dual hexcore, 48GB) 1x Iomega ix4-200d 1x “FrankenStor” Nexenta box After the transition, I hope[…]

Distributed vSwitch Rollback

Posted on October 25, 2012April 2, 2016 by Alastair Cooke

I’m a big fan of simple vSphere network configurations, one vSwitch with a small number of fast uplinks. This has been my stance since ESX 3 and I think it’s still a good starting point for a network design. I have had some concerns about the vNetwork Distributed switch (vDS) with it’s management through vCentre[…]