Home Lab update

Bit of an update. I have been busy traveling for work etc, but managed to make some time to do a few things. 


Biggest thing for now 10Gb is a no go, the chelsio card appears to be DOA after trying to get several machines to even see it. I was also hoping the 3750 supported 10Gb GBICs. I should have read more but only the 3750x supported 10Gb GBICs. Oh well, I may give it another shot in the future but its dead for now. I ended up ordering some 1Gb GBICS and a dual port fiber 1GB card instead. 

Otherwise I have been busy. The rack came in, and its not a bad unit, the only problem I hit was actually with the Dell Rails they were too short so I had to flip the back uprights. around. This only was a problem for the Dell R610, the R710 rails I got off of ebay seemed long enough for them in the correct position. I bought an R710 after the 610 with the hope I could retire my other esx box. It may in fact become my new Freenas box since it is newer has a better processor, and more RAM. I haven't commited to that fully yet.  Anyway here is a few pics some before the R710 came in and one after. 






While I was at it with all of this. I upgraded my whole VMware lab to 6.7/6/5. The hosts are still on 6.5 because officially they are not supported on 6.7 I have heard it works, but I am not in any hurry to play with it since I was on 5.5U2 until I did all this. 

The R710 isnt quite as CPU powerful as the R620 since its dual quad cores, but it makes up for it in more RAM. I got it with 64GB, it didn't have an enterprise IDRAC only the express so I ordered one on ebay for another 15 dollars or something like that. Also a few drive trays etc. Unfortunately I didn't look as closely or read as well as I should have I thought I was ordering one with 3.5 inch backplane, its 2.5. I can still use it just a few changes from what I thought though. 

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