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Deploy ScaleIO 1.32 in virtual lab – I’m using VMware vSphere 5.5, but you can use any virtualization platform. Server minimum hardware requirements 2 CPU cores and 2 GB RAM – I’m using 2 cores and 4 GB of RAM Deploy your choice of Windows – I’m using Server 2012 R2, so YMMV. Deploy ScaleIO […]

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I recently posted the following in a forum topic comparing VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors and thought I’d slap it here for posterity: Hyper-V does not run as a service on top of Windows – which would be a Type 2 hypervisor, rather it is a Type 1 hypervisor (just like ESXi) that runs […]

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If you’re like me and you sometimes do things rather hastily in your home lab (NEVER IN PRODUCTION THOUGH), then you might have found yourself with an orphaned vCenter Server in your SCVMM 2012 console after moving away from VMware’s vSphere hypervisor (for whatever valid reason – choose from many).  Well, you’re in luck – […]

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These instructions will be similar (if not identical) for core versions of server 2012 and 2008R2, but don’t quote me: Download (http://downloadcenter.intel.com) and install (http://www.intel.com/support/network/sb/cs-016040.htm) the latest drivers for your particular NIC from Intel. On each host, identify the indices of the adapters you want to include in the team (c:\progra~1\intel\dmix\cl\prosetcl.exe Adapter_Enumerate) – assuming 2 and […]

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