Recent content by paidhima

Thanks for the response. The NICs I'm going to use are already in some ESXi servers, and I believe they are supported in ESXi 7. I've also considered a storage VM to handle the NVMe disks, but my initial thought is to use them as individual volumes. I have a separate, offline backup server that...

I'm looking to build a new VM server to replace my existing lab servers. I will be moving from a 2x E5-2670/128GB machine built about seven years ago, plus two little Dell workstations and a repurposed i7-6600k machine (storage server). This new machine will replace all four. This will be a 24/7...

I bought a 6450-48 (non-PoE) early last year after using an FWS648 (with the old Foundry logo) for a while, salvaged from a customer. I enjoyed the 648 so much that I looked for another Brocade when I needed 10Gb support. I paid $400 for mine which, at the time, was the best price I could find...