Mellanox SN2700 100gb Switch

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 Had one of these fine Mellanox SN2700 32 port 100gb switches appear to go bad.   All of the port lights were on, solid, the warning lights ...

A Quick look at the PowerEdge r6715

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 A quick look at one of the newer products from Dell.  This PowerEdge r6715, powered by a single AMD CPU. First impressions are that I am no...

VMware Users' Group Connect Minneapolis 2026 and VMware Certification

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 A pass is a pass.....even if it is by the skin of your teeth!  A minimum passing score is 300 points!  Passed my VMware by Broadcom VCP-VCF...

NVMe wearing out?!?

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 One of the developer machines had an error, further digging revealed hard disk warnings.  The drive functions just fine, but was showing an...

MAC OS on VMware ESXi

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 Can one run a MAC OS as a VM on a VMware host?  Well technically yes.  Legally, No.  In my case we needed to just test how Saffari acts wit...

New life to really old Macs??

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 Apple is really strict as to what OS can be loaded on their hardware.  In this case I have a Mac Mini 2014, which is an i5-4278u.  The newe...

Perle IOLAN Serial-Over-IP switch

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 Do you have network devices that you need to occasionally log in via a console/serial port?   For example one wants a backup access to a sw...

mechanical 4gb USB "thumb" drive?

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 This came through during some e-wasting recycling.  It is a 4gb hard drive (yes 4gb, not 4tb....CIRCA 2001?), but it is has a mechanical/sp...

10gb network card

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 I ran across this and had to research what the heck it was.  I don't think I have ever seen a connector like that before. Turns out it...

Dell A/I GPU Server: Dell PowerEdge C4140

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  Another interesting build.  Dell has a line of GPU servers, and they are aged enough that they are on the 2nd hand market.  The cost of PC...