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ESXi 5.0 AMD Whitebox Server for $500 with Passthrough (IOMMU)
Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 Motherboard w/IOMMU One of the things that I looked for in building my ESXi Home Lab was that I wanted enough hardware at a decently cheap price, to get get practice with the...
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ESXi 5.0 AMD Whitebox Server for $500 with Passthrough (IOMMU), Build #2
ASRock 970 Extreme 3: ESXi Whitebox w/IOMMU As I spoke about in my first post, ESXi 5.0 AMD Whitebox Server for $500 with Passthrough (IOMMU), my ESXi Home Lab is a bit different than most in that I’m...
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Intel Pro/1000 Dual Gigabit NIC PCI-X Card in PCI Slot
Intel Pro/1000MT on ESXi in PCI Slot The issue that a lot of people run into when creating ESXi home labs is getting enough network cards to properly simulate a production environment, so they are able...
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vCenter Server Build with a Starwind iSCSI Target
vCenter Server Build Up until now, I have been running vCenter as a VM inside my cluster. There’s a large debate over the pros and cons of running vCenter as a VM vs. a physical box, and I won’t get...
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ESXi 5.5 Free Hypervisor: Will Home Labs Survive?
ESXi 5.5 is finally here, and brings with it a lot of good, new features. Especially interesting, is that early tests seem to indicate that the USB passthrough issues that people were seeing on 5.1...
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