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How does copying over 200GB from one Samsung 950 PRO SSD to another in under...
Available now on Amazon in 256GB and 512GB sizes, 1TB not expected until early next year. I own the faster 512GB model First, you got your Samsung 950 PRO NVMe M.2 drive, 512GB size, specs here. Next...
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Copying about 50GB from a Samsung 950 PRO NVMe SSD back to itself is slower...
Yesterday, I said: Next torture test? Abuse of that 10GbE connection to the loaner Supermicro SuperServer right next to this one... Well, that's what I went and done. Since the moment the idea entered...
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My first Providence VMUG, Nov 19 2015
The right half-of the room, note the many laptops for the Hands On Lab VSAN lab. I live half way between Boston and New York, about 2 hours to either, in central Connecticut, near Hartford. Been to...
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TinkerTry'd SuperServer featured at Virtualization Review "The Quest for the...
Recently, I caught up with Rick Vanover of Veeam, aka, The RICKATRON. He mentioned in passing an article about home lab cravings. Nice to see somebody else noticing the promise of Intel's long-awaited...
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Mastering VMware vSphere 6 book for the holidays
It's a nice honor to have played a small part in one chapter of this book, as I explained in this post: Mastering VMware vSphere 6 All my ads run through BuySellAds, for the very same reasons many...
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My experience at the Boston VMUG USERCON Dec 8 2015, amazing speakers and 12...
Thanks to the VMUG organization, I was invited to join a dinner the night before the Boston VMUG with a whole bunch of folks just this once, including VMUG leader/powerhouse Steve Athanas. Boy does he...
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PC Perspective's Allyn Malventano and This Week in Computer Hardware's...
Long road trips and podcasts go together nicely, such as my recent 2 hour Saturday excursion to a Microsoft focus group gathered by Paul Thurrott. Boy was I entertained and educated as I drove, and I...
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Register to win Veeam's year-end $10K home lab give-away with global...
Announcement Page Win a Home Lab for $10,000! Winter Holidays Giveaway 2016 Alright now, read the fine print. Do you see it? There's a line-item that says one of the Main Prize choices is a Supermicro...
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Professional VMware's vBrownBag End-Of-Year Community Give Away 2015 Edition...
I'm delighted to share that I've gotten to know super nice and super smart community guy Jonathan Frappier over the past few years, and I even got to hang out with him in a session at last week's...
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Intel Xeon D-1540 gets 5% speed bump as D-1541 with SR-IOV in a Supermicro...
It's that time of year, when many an IT pro or PC enthusiast huddles up in their home labs and prepare for the long winter ahead by refreshing their home lab configuration. Especially if they're...
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How virtuallyGhetto's "How to bootstrap the VCSA using the ESXi Embedded Host...
Gift collection of recent articles for the home virtualization lab enthusiast gathered here below! Confession: Alright, I'll admit it. I fought with that persnickety VCSA (vCenter Server Appliance) 6.0...
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My hometown of Wethersfield Connecticut - settled in 1634 - nestled right...
[photo above by George Savic at Yankee Magazine] Map created on ZeeMaps.com For a while now, I've been wanting to share a bit about my beloved hometown of Wethersfield. How nice to recently discover...
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Supermicro SuperServer SYS-5028D-TN4T X10SDV-TLN4F Xeon D-1540 motherboard is...
Supermicro is a bit behind on some refinement of their web site listings for OS compatibility, but with their recent compatibility table update, I can now assure you that indeed, the Supermicro...
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Dell XPS 15 with Samsung PM951 NVMe SSD - speed testing
DELL XPS 15 9550-4444SLV CORE I7 512GB SIGNATURE EDITION LAPTOP A family member recently got a Dell XPS 15 Core i7, with the 512GB SSD option. With a need for virtualization performance and a bit of...
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Welcome to 2016, here's a peek into the future...
I've done such "what's ahead" pieces before, but it's been a while. Why not kick off this fresh new year by giving TinkerTry fans a glimpse at the sorts of topics they can expect to see coming up soon?...
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Getting started with Nutanix Community Edition the easy way - using Rufus on...
I recently found myself involved in a Twitter discussion about getting Nutanix Community Edition going on a Supermicro SuperServer SYS-5028D-TN4T. Instead of more tiny tweets, how about I just figure...
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VMware ESXi 6.0 Windows 10 VM speed comparison between Intel 750 Series NVMe...
Source: Intel What happens when you take two identical Xeon servers with PCIe 3.0 x 4 Supermicro SuperServer SYS-5028D-TN4T (Bundle 2) 64GB of Samsung 2133MHz DDR4 RDIMM RAM Available now on Amazon in...
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Download/Install or Upgrade VMware vCSA/ESXi 6.0 Update 1b
Yay, it's download day! Just in time for my planned home lab rebuild. Some minor features are new, some stuff is just fixed, so be sure to start with kicking off those big downloads then reading the...
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How to update your VMware server to ESXi 6.0 Update 1b the easy way
If you don't have a commercial VMware license, and instead are using a trial, free, or EVALExperience ESXi 6.0 or ESXi 6.0 Update 1, you won't be able to easily download the 6.0 Update 1b ISO directly....
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How to easily update your VMware server to ESXi 6.0 Update 1b
If you don't have a commercial VMware license, and instead are using a trial, free, or EVALExperience ESXi 6.0 or ESXi 6.0 Update 1, you won't be able to easily download the 6.0 Update 1b ISO directly....
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