Recent content by new2town

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    End of Year NAS Build

    Just my 2-cents, but you may want to look at enterprise equipment on eBay. I built my NAS in a Dell r730xd LFF using 6gbps SATA drives and Intel DC 36XX for cache/log. You can get dual Xeon (6, 8, 10-core) with tons of DDR4 ECC ram for under $1k. My build can saturate the 10gb NICs on...
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    Can you running Docker containers on VMware Tanzu

    I have a similar setup (3 host vSphere 6.7 cluster w/ SAN storage)... I have a VMUG subscription and tried playing around with Tanzu several months ago but ended up abandoning it due to the complexity and some limitations that I ran into on the storage side given that I don't run vSAN. My...
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    K8's On VMware

    Unless there's a specific reason that you want/need to learn Tanzu, you may want to take a look at Rancher. I went down the rabbit-hole and played with Tanzu over the summer and found it extremely frustrating (spotty documentation, super complex setup, etc). I found it WAAAAAYYYY easier to get...