Just a short note that I’ve moved most of my tech content to my tech blog site called GeekLingo (geeklingo.net).
Impact of Rack Power Consumption with new Haswell ESXi Server
One of the concerns I had with moving away from a microserver to a full Haswell desktop build for ESXi was a jump in power consumption. With around 4 days of data collected since the new system was installed, I thought that I would do a quick comparison for this month. The graph is a […]
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VT-d Passthrough with ASRock Z87M Pro4
This post has been moved to my new site. Comments have been disabled here. I can confirm that VT-d passthrough appears to be working just fine with the new ASRock Z87M Pro motherboard. I don’t have a need for it just yet but all the options appear to be available and it’s showing as enabled […]
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ASRock Z87M Pro4 Onboard NIC Not Supported by ESXi
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Building a Consumer Grade ESXi Server with ASRock Z87M Pro4, Intel i7, Corsair Non-ECC RAM
I’ve moved this thread to my new site, discussions can happen there.
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Haswell Based ESXi mATX Server
With the release of the Intel Haswell SKU and Z87 series motherboards, I thought it would be a good time to look at upgrading my ESXi box at home. My current configuration is: HP N54L Microserver 16Gb Kingston ECC RAM HP P410-512 RAID 4 x Hitachi 2TB HDDs My new ESXi server will comprise of […]
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Monitoring Solar Power Panel Generation
With Solar being so popular these days, I thought I would write a quick post about how I have mine set up for monitoring solar power panel generation. There are a million ways in which people can achieve this from using Raspberry Pi’s through to having dedicated monitoring devices. This is how I’ve achieved something […]
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Building a Lego Table – All Done
And that’s building a lego table all done, and relocated to the gallery. Time to put the containers in and fill them up with Lego Happy customers 😎
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Building a Lego Table – Attaching the base plates
What better use for a spare solar inverter than holding the base plates down. 😎
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Building a Lego Table – The Painting
Table sanded back and holes patched: Undercoat/Sealant applied: The legs and underside painted red: The top painted green. The paint is self-leveling so most of those ripples should disappear:
