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BC-ESXi67, the shopping list
Complete overhaul you say… yes sir, yes indeed. Keep in mind these components are based on what I think is best for my situation. Your mileage may vary. 3x OEM Networkcable CAT5e blue 1 mtr 3x OEM Networkcable CAT5e green … Continue reading
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Binsfeldius Cluster complete overhaul to VMWare vSphere 6.7
update Nov 9th 2019 Feels like déjà vu all over again… In this NEW series of posts I’ll walk you through the steps, issues and frustrations of designing, building and configuring a low-power performance virtualization cluster based on three nodes. … Continue reading
“Honey, I shrunk the cluster” or building a small, portable distributed testbed of awesomeness
Yet another Raspberry Pi Cluster build… or is it?! This series is mainly to see if I can create an immutable IaaS environment which is portable, small-scale-but-easily-expandable-to-full-size, built on the new DevOps way of working (meaning infrastructure-in-code), secure, adaptable and … Continue reading
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BC-ESXi, Getting rid of minor post configuration issues
So the three-node-cluster is up’n’running but I have a yellow exclamation mark next to each node. Let’s address these issues as my OCD needs a neat and clean interface 🙂 1. This host currently has no management network redundancy Eventhough … Continue reading
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BC-ESXi, building the three nodes into one cluster
Now that we have vCenter Server Appliance in-place and three fully operational nodes, let’s tie it all together in a neat little cluster. This is a three step process: we need the create a datacenter add the nodes to the … Continue reading
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BC-ESXi, vCenter Appliance & Web Client
<rant> VMWare has been pushing away from a fat client towards their new webclient. The thing is that I remember from version 5 and 5.5 that, although the graphics and look’n’feel are cool, the software is sloooooooow. Unbearable slooooooow. Login … Continue reading
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BC-ESXi, First configuration steps on each node – using vSphere Client
As the basic network connectivity is finished, we can now leave the local configuration in the serverroom and continue from the comfort of a desk and iMac. For this I’ll use the VMWare fat client. (yes yes, I can use … Continue reading
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Tagged configuration, virtualization, binsfeldius, vmware, 6.0, nodes, esxi, virtualisation, cluster, vsphere
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BC-ESXi – Installing VMWare ESXi 6.0 to iSCSI Boot LUN
There are several ways of installing ESXi 6.0 on a node: burn the installer iso to a bootable disc create an installable USB stick (using unetbootin) As I have a lot of empty discs collecting dust, I opt for burning … Continue reading
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BC-ESXi, the storage design
I’ve already talked a bit about LUN’s and storage. Let’s put everything together. I’m using a QNAP TVS-871 (28Tb raw storage) to be the iSCSI target and provide the mapped LUN’s. The QNAP is configured as 2-disk RAID1, 5-disk RAID5 … Continue reading
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BC-ESXi, preparing a node
The process of updating the BIOS and firmware remains the same therefore I have only changed the iSCSI part below and copied the first part from my earlier post. Now that the node is assembled and hardware ready, it’s time … Continue reading
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Tagged virtualisation, cluster, vsphere, configuration, virtualization, binsfeldius, vmware, 6.0, nodes, esxi
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