Recent content by Outlaw85

Maybe we didn't get the full details at the time, or I missed something, which is completely possible. I do know from a small-med business perspective, this "either or" install is going to hurt business that aren't running compliant hardware for ESXi and have to buy a stack to run it. For...

It's sad the major players are doing this, hiding behind a paywall for home lab especially. VMware overhauling licensing and core requirements. Nutanix now hides behind a business email account for CE registration. From the business side, VMware/Broadcom seem to be pushing out their smaller...

Not in use at the moment but hanging on to the Centurion. I had plans to load it with drives back in the day. oh, it's listed Sold Out now.

Could look at the Ubiquiti Edge routers X or 4. I have an Edgerouter X but haven't spent much time with it yet. Appears to have a simple GUI but I'm not familiar yet with how their dual lan failover stuff works. pfSense can do this also. Their netgate devices I hear are nice but pricey. Could...

I ran Verizon's for a few months. No real complaints, I tested pfsense with it as a backup/failover connection. It was comparable to Spectrums base package at the time, I was able to get ~300/10 on 5g. If I had to put a negative, it would be the obvious one of location. At the time I didn't...

I would go with the physical cores as well over hyperthreaded. Depending what licensing you have, could you use both systems in a vCenter? If yes, you could do EVC to level set architecture but get a little more room to play. Getting people to understand how "less = more" in the virtual space...

Thought I would throw my 2c on the usb/sdcard vs m.2. From vmware, they do not recommend running esxi on usb/sdcard do to limitations. I don't know if it was just old or this issue, but the sdcard I use in my home stuff failed. I did replace it with another because it's convenient and I have 2...

https://www.amazon.com/PNY-CS900-240GB-Internal-Solid/dp/B07XZLN9KM/ref=mp_s_a_1_3 I haven't used the team group drives but have bought a few of the 240s in the past. 500gb pny for $28 isn't bad either. No issues with the smaller pny I bought in the past

lol Yes! Thank you! I don't need more in my collection :D

Current is a VM on ESXI as well. 4core/8gb ram using L5638 in an HP DL380 g6. running a 2 node cluster to allow for vmotion. upgraded from an old amd athlon x2 shuttle with 4gb ram.

bump. great seller, fast shipping. Thinking about that 3060 lol. I think I bought half of your stuff already. Others need to start buying :D

Yes, sorry. You are correct. PCI passthrough using a GPU. No extra licensing required. Some of the reboot issue I was having seemed to be common for VM misconfigurations, and yes. Windows. I'm not sure how much I want to play with Linux. I dabble but and do some command stuff for work, but not...

I know this isn't a popular topic but came across this trying to pass a GPU through to my VM for plex. This is not to my credit, I wanted to share if anyone else was struggling with this too. Issue: -Enable GPU passthrough in esxi, power on/reboot of VM reboots esxi host -vm fails to power on...

Aluminum flat bar (maybe L for middle support) between "wall uprights"?

Fair enough. I thought the width was ok (misread the rackmount part wrong). I can relate to space savings though. My last case was a fractal 304. I'm still considering downsizing the new system into something similar. Are looks a concern? What about something more custom with extruded...