Network @ Home
Not much to write about this time of the year. Here is a rough diagram of what I have done with my home network.
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Infrastructure Upgrades
I am currently working on a couple of infrastructure upgrades at home at the moment. The first is updating all my LAN cabling to CAT6 and the second is re-establishing my backup regime. I’ll post more on my LAN upgrade later so will focus more on the backup regime now. The extent of ones backup regime depends on what value one places on ones data. It’s not until you suffer data loss that you can truly grasp what I’ve just said.
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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 Dual Gigabit NIC (unless I destroy it when I try to make it fit into a x1 slot) VMware ESXi The aim is to have it configured as follows:
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