On 17 Aug 14  08:52:18, Mark Hofmann said the following to Nick Andre:

MH> I typically keep several spares of just about all hardware that I have
MH> running. Not quite a hardware hoarder, but I do like getting new stuff to
MH> tinker with and setup.

I'm not much of a hardware hoarder either, I would say that I have maybe 3 or 
4 big boxes of computer parts, as I told Nick Boel I don't really have 
complete systems here except for a P2 Compaq system and I still have my IBM AT
system... 5 1/2" floppy drive, 20 megabyte ESDI hard drive, Hercules graphics 
with a little amber monitor :)

MH> For example, probably not many people have a Cisco 4400 Wireless LAN
MH> Controller in their house.

Probably not. I have a couple of older Cisco routers... I have a 2600 series 
but it does not have enough memory for me to run IOS 12 or 13.

MH> My next project will be upgrading my ESXi cluster to new hardware.  Been
MH> watching the DL380 G6 servers.  I already have plenty of RAM, hard drives,
MH> RAID contoller cache, battery, etc.  I just need the server itself and
MH> processors. Looking at the x5650 since they have (6) cores per processor,
MH> which will be fantastic for ESXi.  You can buy a pair of those processors f
MH> around $150, so not too bad.

Speaking of VMware, I had to do some serious fine-tuning to one of my EXSI 
servers at work. Seems I completely overlooked the VMXNET3 interface along 
with getting a crash course on how to make all VM's play nicely with eachother
and not randomly go out to lunch...

Nick

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