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Comment on Building a Cost-Effective vSphere ESXi 5.0 Home Lab: Part 2 by Michael Requeny

Michael Requeny — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:06:04 +0000

Daniel,

I haven’t dived into building a lab rig to support VMDirectPath, hopefully someone else has some insight and can comment.

Comment on Building a Cost-Effective vSphere ESXi 5.0 Home Lab by Michael Requeny

Michael Requeny — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:04:40 +0000

Brian,

Looks like a great build–Only thing I would do different is buy cases that come with cheap-o Power Supplies to save some coin.
Let me know how how your rigs work out for you once you get them put together.

Comment on Building a Cost-Effective vSphere ESXi 5.0 Home Lab by Brian

Brian — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:51:12 +0000

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the info. Here’s my list for a lab system. Let me know what you think. I’m thinking about putting a small, cheap SSD & 1 TB SATA drive in each system along with a NAS (already have).

COOLER MASTER Elite 360 Plastic ATX Mini Tower Computer Case
CORSAIR Builder Series CX430 V2 430W ATX12V v2.3 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
ASUS E35M1-M PRO Fusion AMD E-350 APU (1.6GHz, Dual-Core) AMD Hudson M1 Micro ATX Motherboard/CPU Combo

Thanks!

Comment on Building a Cost-Effective vSphere ESXi 5.0 Home Lab: Part 2 by Daniel Chan

Daniel Chan — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:13:32 +0000

Not sure if I opt for something VMDirectPath, what board will be a better match?

Comment on Canon Zoom Lens EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Disassembly/Repair: Front Element by Michael Requeny

Michael Requeny — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:24:02 +0000

Yikes, I’m willing to bet that cable is cut, the connectors for the ribbon cables aren’t easy to slide apart normally…
Follow the guide I posted for the first bit, after that your on your own. Under the motor is a bunch of gears for AF that I don’t think are going to be very easy to reassemble…Not sure if the whole thing falls apart once you crack it open or what…

Look at these pictures, they might help:
http://gallery.clubsnap.com/showgallery.php/ppuser/23585/cat/500

Comment on Canon Zoom Lens EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Disassembly/Repair: Front Element by Karl

Karl — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:38:40 +0000

There’s a ribbon cable dangling deep inside the optics of my canon EF 75-300 f4-5.6 III USM. Any idea how to dissemble and repair?

Comment on Building a Cost-Effective vSphere ESXi 5.0 Home Lab by Michael Requeny

Michael Requeny — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:04:11 +0000

1. – The processor is embedded in the motherboard
2. – I recommend a USB Flash drive for ESXi (I’m using 1Gb drives)
3. – Those will work fine for shared storage

Comment on Building a Cost-Effective vSphere ESXi 5.0 Home Lab by Kartook

Kartook — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:27:01 +0000

Hey ..
I need a details information about list of hardware used .Planning to build new Home lab which will support for coming 2 year down the line ( minimum ) .

I got Exact mother board and RAM .
1. What kind of processor i have to use ?
2. What is local HDD i need to USE ?
3 . Already i have IOmega SAN storage with me ( 2 TB ) , one Openfiler Storage .

Thanks in Advance
K~
Kartook@gmail.com

Comment on N-1000 Command Reference Cheetsheet by dmessana

dmessana — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:02:03 +0000

I am getting my hands on four more N1000-IV panels, i will test those as well to see if it is me or the panel’s RS485 port that is no good. i am using the serial interface and when i type, the led doesnt illuminate at all (possibly bad?) when i get the OK! msg from each command.

my next issue i have to tackle is that my site code is 2001, however my card number was said to be 66322. i dont get how that is possible on a 26bit card; i thought that the highest card number was 65532 or so for a 12 bit card number. even the programming manual states that this is the limit. my card however shows a number of 55322 printed on it which i was told was the actual number by another person.

i really jump in head first to stuff i have never worked with before.

will keep you posted on the tests however.

Comment on N-1000 Command Reference Cheetsheet by Michael Requeny

Michael Requeny — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:14:18 +0000

Does the panel return any data when you enter the commands?
If not try this command first:
M=1 L
Then any other commands to see if you get any data back.

If you don’t get any data back–what are you using to interface with the panel? C-100?
Do the LEDs on it blink when you are entering commands? If not, I’d think the C-100 is bad.

If the board isn’t doing anything, have you tried pulling power completely? (kill input power from transformer, disconnect both batteries). Upon boot after losing power completely (including the coin cell) it should close Output #1. If it does that then I’d think the board is good as it did post and load the default correctly…