Monthly Archives: November 2015

<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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

The network design has changed to allow for a more fine-grained placement of VM’s and to incorporate a better segmented level of security. VM’s can now be placed into firewalled VLAN’s from vCenter itself. As each node has three physical … Continue reading →