Afternoon :)
Going to build myself a new VMware home lab and was thinking of installing VMware ESXi on a USB memory stick so I can use my SSD's & Raid Arrays purely for Datastores.
Just a bit worried about the reliability of using a USB so wondering whos done it like that, has it been...
I've beefed mine up with a Dual Port NIC with LACP/Link Aggregation (Intel Chipset) so I can have a 2GB link back to my managed switch for plenty of I/O (not using onboard NIC)
I have also added in a HP P410 Raid Controller with 512mb Cache and battery backup which at the moment will be...
Ah cool, nice one Uhtred, I need to get 6 x 3.5" drives in my Microserver but not looked at how I was going to do it yet but that looks spot on, where did you get the bracket?
I am going from a full ATX case NAS back into a Microserver but have 6 x WD Red's in there and a raid card to get into...
For anyone looking for something similar in the end I bought a 'Winyao WY580T' PCI-e X1 which uses an Intel 82580 controller and it works well and LACP/Link Aggregation is working sweet :)
Thanks for the input guys, sorry if I wasn't very clear in the main post, im not concerned about the internal network security in either building just the link between them so for example if someone came along outside, cut it, shoved a plug on and then they would just get a DHCP address and have...
Hi guys, bit of an interesting one this as I cant quite get my head around best way to do this so wanted to see what others thought...
OK so the scenario - we have Building A and Building B, in Building A there is a local LAN, and currently in Building B there is nothing.
Building B needs...
...A dual port Gigabit NIC card which uses a PCIe x1 slot?
Only one I have seen out there is an IO Crest one but doesn't look like it supports Link Aggregation which I need to have on it.
Anyone know of anything out there?
Cheers :)
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