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Impact of Rack Power Consumption with new Haswell ESXi Server

June 18, 2013 NoGiVMware ESXi

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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ASRock Z87M Pro4 Onboard NIC Not Supported by ESXi

June 8, 2013July 15, 2013 NoGiVMware ESXi

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Building a Consumer Grade ESXi Server with ASRock Z87M Pro4, Intel i7, Corsair Non-ECC RAM

June 7, 2013July 15, 2013 NoGiSlider

I’ve moved this thread to my new site, discussions can happen there.  

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Haswell Based ESXi mATX Server

June 5, 2013August 27, 2013 NoGiVMware ESXi

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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HP N54L Microserver with 16GB ECC RAM for ESXi

January 23, 2013August 27, 2013 NoGiN54L

This post is continuing on the new site now – geeklingo.net Want to run a HP N54L Microserver with 16GB ECC RAM for ESXi? It’s easier than you think. I finally got around to migrating my N40L ESXi setup to the newer N54L. Process was relatively simple, take the guts out of one box and add […]

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Network @ Home

December 30, 2011 NoGiHP Microserver

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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Building a cheap ESXI server

November 1, 2011May 6, 2013 NoGiN40L

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 […]

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Installing Win 7 to a VM via remote ISO

October 29, 2011October 29, 2011 NoGiVMware ESXi

Today I thought I would have a quick crack at installing Win 7 Home Premium x64 via a ISO onto the newly created VM Server. The ISO was on my NAS and the path was shared out as a NFS Share. The process was relatively simple once I had the vSphere client up and running.

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  • ASRock Z87M Pro4 Onboard NIC Not Supported by ESXi

  • Building a Consumer Grade ESXi Server with ASRock Z87M Pro4, Intel i7, Corsair Non-ECC RAM

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