Recent content by BennyT

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Hi itronin, I just noticed that the smaller version of that switch, the Mokerlink 8 port SFP+ managed switch, someone left a review on their website saying they are using twinax (DAC) to uplink to their router. The 12port version probably can do the same. Really excited to hear what your...

I was looking into how to completely turn off the Onboard LAN so that it avoids drawing power or producing heat. On the X11DPi for both for the N and NT editions [1000Mb and 10Gb versions of the board], there are not any jumper pins for the LAN. For example, there isn't a JPL1 or JPL2 There...

That looks like a good switch at that price. It says it can handle SFP and SFP+, it has cli ssh and also a GUI. Only question is if it can use DAC or if requires transceivers. And even so, that's no big deal to me. Let me know what you think about it after you get chance to try it and test...

good news is the new x550-T2 (has two ports) arrived from amazon about 45 minutes ago and it is working great so far. It was mostly plug n play. The only thing I' had to do is to go into the ESXi console (yellow ascii UI screens) and assign the new physical adapters vmnic2 as the new ESXi...

I'm pretty happy with ESXi and plan to stay with it. I'll be sure to check against the compatibility list for the cards, etc. Thanks again and have fun with your new planned lab setup and with xcpng :)

Very cool on the X11DPH you are moving to. I didn't patch ESXi recently. Last time i changed anything in our configuration was back in May when i went from 7.0u3h to 7.0u3k. I'm going to price out the sfp+ parts list. Thanks for those sfp brand recommendations. I'd need an sfp+ switch too...

Ordered an x550-t2 two port 10GBASE-T card for $216.99 on amazon. It's silkscreened with "10GeTek" on the pcb so don't think it is official intel card, but I'm expecting it has an authentic intel chipset and firmware :cool: we'll see how well it goes. Should arrive tomorrow and I'm hoping...

Hello, My ESXi Host is a Supermicro X11-DPI-N(T) - That mobo has Two Intel x722 10GBASE-T RJ45 network adapters and One IPMI RJ45 adapter. Today I tried connecting to guests in my ESXi host (7.0u3k) and discovered that the two 10GBASE-T physical network adapters of the motherboard are...

Updated my yearly VMUG license key over the weekend. I've been using vSphere products and VMUG for over 4 yrs now. Very happy with this setup and it has allowed me to have so many more experiment servers for Oracle experiments compared to when I had only physical servers. Also, upgraded ESXi...

vSphere v8 is available for VMUG Advantage members as of yesterday.

Added email notifications to the esxi configuration backup script. basically, using mailx linux command. Postfix for mta and configuring to use TLS encrypted email body transmited to remote smtp server. You can view your resulting emais header to verify that the email transmitted to the SMTP...

Regarding VMUG. The VMUG Advantage online store still has the 6.x vsphere license keys available, but they won't say for how much longer. They could be there for another 5 yrs or they could drop off tomorrow. VMUG Advantage is $200 for one year and that would get you the license keys for...

I'm sharing my bash shell script to generate and archive ESXi configuration backups to my backup server I scheduled this script to run nightly via cron from a linux server used for holding backups. 0 0 * * * /BRTA_scripts/brta_esxi01_config_backups.sh >>...

Is there an auto negotiate setting for the adapters? Try setting the adapters to auto-negotiate, or changing that setting to 10000 if it allows. Maybe it's defaulting to an incorrect speed or something like that.