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  1. mephisto

    I've created a small tutorial showing how to deploy teams with telephony (phone numbers)

    Hello, I've noticed there was no tutorial showing how to deploy Teams / Phone System from scratch so I've created one. A test environment can be easily created with an Office 365 trial and even phone numbers assigned to the system with a calling plan with no costs under the trial period. I...
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    16x and 24 port 10GB switch options for datacentre, or perhaps infiniband

    Hi guys, I'm planning to refresh some servers I have at a datacentre and I'm planning to get everything on 10GB network. The idea is to use a couple of ZFS boxes replicating data to each other and between 4 to 6 hosts with VMware ESXi running the VMs over NFS on the ZFS boxes. My idea is to...
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    Refreshing servers, consolidating with new high end boxes, less power consumption

    Hi guys, I'm planning now to replace all my Dell R710 boxes which are 5-6 years old with dual socket quad core cpus, lagging a lot these days and consuming a lot of power. I'm considering supermicro kit, and actually I've noticed that are a few more manufacturers around but I'm still not sure...
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    Shared storage options for VMware ESXi

    Hey guys, Currently I have a couple of Dell MD3200 (SAS) plugged to a few ESXi hosts, which has done the job back in the day but now is a performance bottleneck, plus it is connected through SAS, limiting the quantity of hosts we can connect to it, and also has the propriety rebranded disks, so...
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    Intel H77 and Perc H200/6I

    Hi guys, I've got a machine here with a Biostar motherboard TZ77B intel chipset Z77 that I'm trying to use with a hardware raid controller. For some reason with both H200 and 6/I the motherboard beeps like crazy intermittently, no post. With a Dell HBA for external SAS connector, it works...