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I've looked at the threads for determining if an i350 or x520 NIC are counterfeit but I have not been able to find one for x710-da2/4. I'm thinking about purchasing the 710 series over the 520 for a build I'm working on but not sure what to look for in the eBay pictures to determine if they are...

Ok I've been reading through the napp-it vCluster documents. It sounds like I could setup a host with ESXi and some NVMe drives and use the shared disks to create h1 and h2 but when I need to update that host it will need to be brought offline so I'm trying to look at how to do it with two hosts...

Any recommendations for HA storage for a 2 node vSphere cluster that's not a loud power sucking out of support enterprise SAN? Something DIY? I would like to be able to complete OS upgrades without having to shutdown the VM's.

I'm confused, why would you build a ZFS shared storage and a vSAN cluster? What kind of problems did you have with 3 node vSAN? I don't need insane IOPS just the ability to run upgrades without knocking stuff offline. Anything I can look ito for HA ZFS? The few things I saw on a quick search...

@Aestr the problem I’m having with a non vSAN setup is redundant shared storage. If I have a share from FreeNAS or a Synology and need to update either I either have to migrate the VMs to different storage or shut them down to do a DSM or FreeNAS upgrade. Unless there is a way to work around...

@llowrey I saw numerous reviews and posts saying that after a couple weeks the IPMI dies out and requires a full power cycle to start functioning again? Have you experienced that? @Evan I initially thought about a Xeon-D but I don’t recall any that had more then one expansion slot or if they...

@acquacow How is the power usage on those X9's? Even being a low power Xeon it's still only two years newer than my L5640's I don't suspect the idle efficiency would be much better then what I currently have if I had three of those running? The dual L5640's should have a combined PassMark in the...

Hello, I’ve been running my home lab as it stands for a couple of years now. The hardware is starting to get dated and I would really like to reduce my power usage and also increase some redundancy. Currently I have an R210 II with a Xeon e3-1220, a single cheap SSD and 8GB of RAM running...