StarWind VSAN for vSphere Virtual Appliances
You may have been considering VMware vSAN for your ROBO or Edge environment, however, your budget constraints simply do not allow purchasing a supported configuration for use with a VMware…
Category: Storage
Simulate SAN Storage with FreeNAS 11.2
If you are like me, you are constantly labbing various storage solutions and connectivity from virtual hosts and the like in the home lab. Most likely, you don’t have a…
FreeNAS iSCSI Configuration for MPIO
In the last post, Hyper-V Cluster MPIO iSCSI installation and configuration, we looked at configuring MPIO multi-pathing on a Hyper-V host connected to iSCSI storage. In a home lab environment,…
Dell EMC UnityVSA storage appliance installation and configuration
One of the great resources for home lab environments is vendor released virtual storage appliance software solutions that emulate models of hardware that is typically found in the enterprise. Getting…
Create ScaleIO Volume ESXi datastore
Recently, we took a look at deploying ScaleIO in a VMware vSphere 6 environment. With the 2.0.1.3 release, vSphere 6.5 is supported. In the previous post, we only looked at…