Not much to write about this time of the year. Here is a rough diagram of what I have done with my home network:
Category: N40L
Building a cheap ESXI server
After having a play with VMware ESXi, I’ve decided to pick it for my virtualisation solution. My ESXi box will be configured as: HP N40L Microserver 2 x 4GB Kingston Non-ECC RAM 8GB Sandisk Cruizer USB thumb drive 5 x 2TB Hitachi 7K2000 HDDs HP P410 Storage Array with 512MB cache + battery backup HP NC360T […]
Share this:
HP NC360T dual gig nic arrives
Yesterday was a good day for deliveries. Along with the XL3000’s I also got a HP NC360T network card that I ordered of eBay. This will be going into the N40L microserver in the PCIe x1 slot as the x16 slot is earmarked for a P410-512 Storage Array card. As you can see, the card […]
Share this:
Trying out VMware ESXi
I haven’t decided on which virtualisation platform I am going to use yet between VMware’s ESXi and Citrix’s XenServer. For now, I am playing around with the VMware offering. Installed to a USB stick with no issues. Ironically, no OSX support for the management application and the recommended approach is to run it under VMware […]
Share this:
Grabbed another Microserver
I bought another microserver yesterday, this time it’s the newer N40L model. Will be using this as my new applications server so host OS will be either ESXi or XenServer.
