Archive for category At home
My 2. VMware ESXi whitebox is going live today
Posted by Lars Krogh in At home on 03/07/2010
It’s also based on the Intel DQ45CB motherboard supporting 16 GB memory, a Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 cpu, 8 GB Corsair XMS2 memory and a Samsung SpinPoint F3 1 TB hard drive for local storage. The box will boot from a Corsair Flash Voyager Mini memory stick.
I hope to get the Qnap TS-259 Pro later this week and then the setup is perfect.
At home: Kinect for Xbox 360 available on November 4th
Posted by Lars Krogh in At home on 15/06/2010
At home: LogMeIn Pro² added
Posted by Lars Krogh in At home on 05/01/2010
Just added LogMeIn Pro² to my new setup (costs €31.20/month for 5 PCs) … man, this is AWESOME!
I have total control of my virtual environment from anywhere in the world and not only that – I can also manage the physical machine through Intel’s RPAT (remember your MB has to run AMT 5.0 and above).
After I login at the LogMeIn website I’m able to access my entire home environment.
This screenshot show part of my virtual environment:
Logon to the SCCM server (here’s a screenshot of the options you have during use of the server)
The SCCM desktop
At home: My new setup
Posted by Lars Krogh in At home on 28/12/2009
Well the hardware is up an running. I started with installing the DC and SCCM - then I installed additional servers (SCOM, Exchange, OCS) using SCCM (more on that later).
The setup runs VMware ESXi 4.0 u1 from my noname Pc. All 5 x NICs are patched to a HP ProCurve gigaswitch and the VM host has local-, iSCSI- and NFS- storage. I’ve enable SSH and I use Jumbo Frames in my network.
Enable SSH on VMware ESXi 4.0:
From the console, press: alt-f1
Type in: unsupported (you will not see a cursor, so watch out for typos)
Type in: <root password>
Type in: vi /etc/inetd.conf (to edit inetd.conf)
Remove the “#” from both ssh entries
Reboot the host
Enable Jumbo Frames on the NICs:
Login using SSH
Esxcfg-vswitch -l (list current MTU = default 1500)
Esxcfg-vswitch -m 8000 vSwitch0 (set MTU to 8000 on vSwitch0)
Esxcfg-vswitch -l (verify that the change has been made)
Repeat the step for every vSwitch
Esxcfg-nics -l (verify that every NIC has 8000 as MTU-Value)
Remember, that your switch has to support Jumbo Frames.
My setup performs best with MTU set to 8000 (My NAS is a Synology 407e running DSM 2.2).
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