Monthly Archives: April 2017

Software Raid in Windows and NVMe U.2 Drive Benchmark

I have recently acquired a couple Intel 750 NVMe U.2 Drives to play around with.  In order to utilize these drives you need to source a SuperMicro AOC-SLG3-2E4 NVMe PCIe card or similar variant.  I good write up on the HBAs available is from our good friends at ServerTheHome. In my VMware Server, I have passed through …

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How to Setup Swap in ESXi 6.5

Another VMware basics post and this time I will teach you how to set up Swap for an ESXi Host.  The Swap here is for the VMKernel, and basically can create performance boost for those hosts that are heavily utilized.  For myself, I created a RAID 1 Volume of two Intel DC3710 800GB SSDs to …

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Cannot Create Datastore on VMware ESXi 6.5

I have been in the process of rebuilding my Plex Server and restoring the data.  I popped in four 4TB WD Red NAS Drives and attached them to my 12G Controller.  I figured it would be easy to create a datastore across the Raid 5 Drive and contine on my way.   Unfortunately that was …

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