Home Lab Upgrades! Assembling an Intel NUC11 & Installing VMware ESX 7

Опубликовано: 07 Февраль 2022
на канале: 0x2142 - Networking Nonsense

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I had the opportunity recently to invest a little in upgrading my home lab. I decided on picking up two Intel NUC11 Performance mini PCs, which will run my VMware ESX lab. In this video, we'll walk through what I bought & why, assembling the Intel NUCs, and installing/configuring ESX (including building a custom install image for the NUC drivers).

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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro & Current Lab info
1:35 - Parts List
3:18 - Intel NUC Assembly
6:49 - Building Custom ESX Install Image with NUC Drivers
11:08 - Checking NUC BIOS Settings
12:33 - Installing ESX on Intel NUC
14:48 - ESX Local Console Config (Management Network)
16:52 - Installing Custom Drivers via ESXCLI
20:10 - Configuring vMotion Network
21:49 - Connecting to Synology iSCSI
24:07 - Add New Host to vSphere
25:30 - vMotion Performance Test over 2.5GbE

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