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My 2. VMware ESXi whitebox is going live today

Lars Krogh — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 07:06:21 +0000

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

Lars Krogh — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:44:20 +0000

As an owner of 3 x XBOX 360′s I have to blog on the release of Kinect. Kinect for Xbox 360 will be available on November 4 in North America, with a promise of 15 games tailored for it at launch!

Damn I’m looking forward to this release

Will there also be a Pc version? … check this blog

At home: LogMeIn Pro² added

Lars Krogh — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:08:05 +0000

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

Lars Krogh — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:21:28 +0000

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:
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).