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Greetings all, I am looking for a small (portable), quiet, and low-power PC to run VMWare ESXi. I run a bunch of VMs to develop DevOps code and need a PC with 6-8 CPUs, 64G RAM, and NVMe support. My virtualization tool of choice is VMWare, but I could do Proxmox or XCP-NG as well. I have a...

Greetings all, I am a little overwhelmed by the VMWare licensing options and need some help figuring out which licenses (and how many) I need for my upcoming dev environment. We will be running 8x compute servers - each with 2x 10-Core E5-2697v2 CPUs, 256G RAM, and USB boot. We need vCenter...

Greetings all, Looking for any real-world experience with either the LSI 9460-8i or LSI 9560-8i with multiple NVMe drives in RAID-5. According to LSIs documenation (Product brief for the 9500 controllers): However, it does not say how much faster (if any) the 9560 is compared to the 9460 in...

Greetings all, Looking to put mdadm for the first time into production and am looking for some best practices. I have used it in the past for non-production work, but a production install absolutely requires rock-solid uptime, reliability, and performance. Background: I have 4x NFS servers in...

Greetings all, A few years back, we purchased two 14-bay Supermicro Chassis with some B9DRi and B10DRi blades. At the time, it was a great way to add high-density computing to our racks. Fast forward a couple of years and it seems the VLP memory is very expensive (and hard to find) for these...

Greetings all, Looking for pair of inexpensive 40GbE NICs for my VMWare home lab (2x servers running 6.5u3). The servers currently have dual-port 10G NICs, and I would like to bump them to 40G. I already have 40G DACs from a previous setup. This will be pure Ethernet - no InfiniBand. I saw...