Archive
2024
- Sep 04 - Presented at EV Club of CT's second annual NorthEast Electric Vehicle Symposium!
- Sep 02 - I went to Everything Electric CANADA - World's #1 Home Energy & Electric Vehicle Show!
- Feb 01 - Getting to know Matt Ferrell
2023
- Oct 29 - Tesla Solar Roof - 33 yr. old Connecticut home successfully renovated & electrified. No more gas!
- Sep 16 - NEEVS Full Presentation Replay - Connecticut's vehicle & home electrification incentives - windows, insulation, heat pumps and solar
- Sep 16 - Featured on "Home Gadget Geeks" Episode #584 "Paul Braren and Lots of Stuff to Catch Up on! – HGG584"
- Aug 16 - (First Annual) Northeast Electric Vehicle Symposium - New Haven Connecticut, Sep. 9, 2023
- Aug 10 - Featured on Gigacast 48 | TinkerHeldstab with Paul Braren and Matt Heldstab
- Mar 18 - Seriously, Sandy Munro and Cory Steuben Q&A with EV Club of Connecticut on March 21 2023 (Video Replay)
- Mar 12 - When rates doubled, I took 5 minutes to cut my electric bill nearly in half in Connecticut, one of 30 states where you can choose your rate
- Mar 06 - Future of Fast Charging Sparks Joy in US's Non-Tesla EV Road Trippers - Supercharged Magic Docks!
- Mar 01 - Featured on Tech Breakfast Podcast 284 | Tesla - Quantum Energy - AI | Aaron, Russ, Tyler, Paul
2022
- Nov 15 - Featured on Tech Breakfast Podcast 277 | Paul Braren of TinkerTry.com talks EV planes and energy efficient housing | Aaron, Russ, Tyler, Paul
- Nov 09 - VMware vSphere 8 is now GA (General Availability), here's how to download it any which way!
- Nov 01 - Hotel Marcel in New Haven Connecticut, the world's biggest Passive House? Our tech tour featured on Undecided with Matt Ferrell!
- Oct 12 - VMware vSphere 8 is now IA (Initial Availability), here's how to download it any which way!
- Aug 16 - TinkerTry'd Synology DiskStation DS1522+ NAS featuring AMD Ryzen, 10GbE, 5 8TB HDDs and 2 NVMe SSDs!
- Jun 22 - vExperts are now able to place ads on their virtualization blogs for 18% commissions on VMware purchases!
- Jun 15 - Rheem heat pump water heater 3-year ownership summary, as featured on Undecided with Matt Ferrell
- May 26 - My experience as a first-time Delegate at AI Field Day 3
- May 15 - Rivian R1T EV pickup truck overview at Northeast Rivian Club event in Bridgeport Connecticut, owner Jazzy Jeff has 5,300 miles already!
- May 06 - Featured on "Home Gadget Geeks" Episode #533 "Paul Braren with an Insteon Departure, the EV Decider and Heat Pumps for the Win – HGG533"
- May 03 - InsteOFF - Insteon abruptly turned off its cloud and (should have) ceased sales, many devices continue to (mostly) work using local controls
- Apr 28 - Prepare for VMware vSphere 8.0 / vSphere.Next by reading updated KB 85685 "SD card/USB boot device revised guidance"
- Apr 27 - VMware vSphere 7 Update 3d (VCSA 7.0U3d & ESXi 7.0U3d) includes critical bugfixes
- Apr 22 - EV Decider - Tesla Model 3, Y, or another EV brand. What's best for you?
- Apr 19 - Featured on Tech Breakfast Podcast 250 | The Osborne Effect - Twitter Chaos - Death of ICE - XR - Battery Tech | Aaron, Russ, Tyler, Paul
- Apr 16 - Tesla, Rivian, Lucid EVs, an e-bus, and many e-bikes at the Connecticut State Capitol as lawmakers consider SB 214 for direct sales and SB 4 for clean air
- Mar 25 - Featured on Tech Breakfast Podcast 243 | EVs with Paul Braren | Aaron, Tyler
- Mar 24 - Tesla Model 3 Boston and New York City Road Trip Tips - safely handled rain, snow, and heavy traffic with ease and efficiency
- Mar 06 - Fanless Supermicro SuperServer SYS-E302-12D features new Intel Xeon D-1700, finally a silent 1U, but storage is limited
- Mar 06 - Needs and wants for TinkerTry's 2022 virtualization home lab replacement based on Intel Xeon D-1700/2700
- Feb 24 - Intel Xeon D-1700/D-2700 (Ice Lake D) finally launched, up to 20 cores/2.5GHz/3.5GHz Turbo/25GbE/1TB RAM and PCIe 4.0 doubling NVMe SSD speeds!
- Feb 20 - EV Club of Connecticut Show & Tell video features Will Cross' Hyundai IONIQ 5, compares with his Tesla Model 3
- Feb 12 - Intel Xeon D-1700/D-2700 (Ice Lake D), a promising choice for efficient home labs? (rumor)
- Feb 04 - Exactly how I installed VMware vCenter VCSA 7.0U3c, replacing my 7.0U3b rather than upgrading it
- Feb 02 - Little House Brewing Company in Chester Connecticut, built in 1836, now has a Tesla Solar Roof!
- Jan 28 - VMware has released vSphere 7 Update 3c (VCSA 7.0U3c & ESXi 7.0U3c), includes Log4j related updates
- Jan 13 - Tesla waypoints make it easy to decide how long to Supercharge on multi-stop road trips, safely skipping nav's suggested extra charging stop
- Jan 07 - Featured on Tech Breakfast Podcast 229 | EVs with Paul Braren | Aaron, Tyler
- Jan 02 - Light Show - Mission Impossible sounds and looks great in fog, and it's free nerd fun for everyone on github
2021
- Dec 31 - New TinkerTry logo and tagline for 2022
- Dec 22 - Connecticut's Inductive Autoworks Reincarnates Classic Gas Cars As Practical EVs - Conversions Even Purists Will Love
- Dec 18 - The Magic Electric (Four) School Bus Giveaway Inspiration
- Dec 13 - Featured on Tech Breakfast Podcast 226 | Electric Vehicle News with Paul Braren | Aaron, Russ, Tyler
- Dec 10 - Michelin CrossClimate 2 All Weather Tires Review - a safe year-round choice for rain & snow with a longer life than CrossClimate+, but less range for EVs like Tesla Model 3/Y
- Nov 30 - VMware has pulled all versions of ESXi 7.0 Update 3 and VCSA 7.0U3b (Jan 27 2022 - Re-released as 7.0U3c on Jan 27 2022)
- Nov 23 - Supermicro Xeon D SuperServer BIOS 2.3 / IPMI 3.88 released, how to upgrade with ease!
- Nov 11 - EV Club of Connecticut - New Englanders sharing their Tesla FSDBeta experience
- Nov 03 - First Time Using Tesla Full Self-Driving, Beta v10.3.1
- Oct 27 - Open registration for EV Club of Connecticut's Nov. 11th panel discussion - New Englanders sharing their Tesla FSDBeta experience
- Oct 27 - October 2021 Boston VMUG UserCon Presentation - The future of USB/SD in the vSphere Data Center and Home Lab
- Oct 26 - No future for booting ESXi from USB in VMware home labs, using max endurance microSD for ESXi 7.0U3 now, SATA/SATADOM or M.2 later
- Oct 20 - EV Club of Connecticut Show & Tell videos feature owners sharing their real-world experiences
- Oct 12 - Enduring the Tesla Safety Score experience on the road to a safer, more autonomous future
- Oct 09 - Supermicro SYS-5028D-TN4T mini-tower/Wiredzone Bundles are on the VCG for ESXi 7.0 Update 3
- Oct 08 - VMware vSphere 7 Update 3 and Microsoft Windows 11 both arrived on October 5 2021, many great lessons learned the hard way but testing is going well
- Oct 06 - VMware vSphere 7 Update 3 is now GA, here's how to download it any which way! (updated Jan 28 2022 for 7.0U3c)
- Oct 01 - Featured on Tech Breakfast Podcast 212 | Nigeria - $90M Defi Oops - Mach-E - Amazon Astro - Vaccines | Aaron Russ & Paul
- Sep 28 - vSphere 7.0 Update 3 What's New article, video, and podcast from VMware
- Sep 20 - Featured on Tech Breakfast Podcast 209 - The News | Podcast 210 - EV's & Law Enforcement | Tyler Russ & Paul
- Sep 16 - Tesla Model 3 Long Range laps with my dad for charity, safely exceeding 100+ mph on our first track run ever!
- Sep 01 - Avoid identity theft - How to freeze (or temporarily unfreeze) your credit, opt-out of unsolicited pre-approved offers, and secure your cell phone number
- Aug 26 - VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 2c is now GA, here's how to download it any which way!
- Aug 01 - How to get Windows 11 Insider Preview running as a VMware ESXi 7 VM
- Jun 23 - Synology DSM 7.0 Announced, Release Candidate now available featuring a faster UI and improved ease-of-use ease-of-use
- Jun 11 - Connecticut residents can test drive, order, then take delivery of a new Tesla, here's how 14,408 owners already did!
- Jun 10 - VMUG Advantage video series - blogger tips
- Jun 09 - Westport Connecticut's year old Tesla Model 3 cost analysis predicts tens of thousands in savings vs 10 mpg gas car
- Jun 08 - Finally, first mass market EV pickup truck deliveries by Rivian in 2021, Ford in 2022, Tesla and Chevy in 2023, Dodge in 2024
- Jun 02 - TinkerTry's Tenth Birthday is June 2 2021 - Paul's reflections on past, present, and future tech
- May 15 - I saw the future: all-electric Rivian R1T pickup truck at all-electric Hotel Marcel in New Haven Connecticut
- May 11 - I got to see the Tesla Cybertruck in New York City with my own eyes and it still seems unreal
- Apr 27 - VMware ESXi 7.0 Update 2a not available yet via ESXCLI (Update - available on Apr 29 2021)
- Apr 26 - Many EV brands at the Drive Electric Earth Day 2021 in Fairfield Connecticut
- Apr 07 - Intel has started sampling next-gen Intel Xeon D processors for space and power-constrained environments, promising for home labs?
- Apr 04 - Ring Video Doorbell Pro 2 Review
- Mar 29 - Tesla Full Self Driving beta-tester Kim Paquette's candid discussion with EV Club of CT about navigating the narrow roads of Newport RI
- Mar 22 - Big turn-out at Connecticut press conference including Lucid Motors, Rivian, Tesla, and EV owners advocating for SB 127 in-state direct-sales and deliveries
- Mar 10 - VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 2b is now GA, here's how to download it any which way!
- Mar 10 - Tesla Full Self-Driving beta-tester Kim Paquette speaking to EV Club of CT at 7pm eastern Mar 11 2021, preregister now to join our Zoom!
- Mar 03 - New 1-year-duration VMware vSphere 7 license keys are now available to 2021's vExperts
- Feb 28 - Architect Bruce Becker discusses urban EV charging, heat pumps, fuel cells & sustainable development in Connecticut
- Feb 20 - Lucid Motors, Rivian, Tesla, EV Club of CT, and franchised car dealerships discuss bill SB 127 to permit direct sales of EVs in Connecticut
- Feb 17 - When selecting a big hard drive for your homelab's VMware ESXi VMFS datastore, consider the 512e over the 4Kn version
- Feb 10 - SSD Benchmarking Expert Allyn Malventano is back online, with recent appearances on Intel Memory Storage Moment and on PC Perspective Podcast chatting about Tesla eMMC!
- Feb 10 - Sense electricity monitoring gets new superpowers, exclusive Co-founder interview and Product Manager live demonstration
- Feb 02 - SpaceX launches Starship SN9 prototype to test belly flop re-entry on earth, intended to be a reusable way to land 100 humans on Moon or Mars
- Jan 25 - William Lam's "Supermicro VMware Homelab 2020 Options" and an update on TinkerTry's next Intel or AMD based home lab Bundle on the VMware Compatibility Guide
- Jan 25 - How to split a 4K Dolby Vision source such as Tivo EDGE to a 4K TV and to secondary rooms' 1080P TVs including Netflix & Amazon Prime and RF remote control
- Jan 17 - Featured on Tech Breakfast Podcast on Jan 15 2021 "Paul Braren: Eyes - Tesla Recall - Tedlexa - Mushrooms - Intel - EVs - Boeing"
2020
- Dec 31 - My 2020 tech happenings
- Nov 17 - Wi-Fi 6 in the new eero Pro 6 can totally keep up with full gigabit internet speeds!
- Nov 16 - VMUG Advantage and TinkerTry pairing up on Nov 17 2020 for #ADVTinkerTryTakeover event, part of National Career Development Month!
- Oct 25 - A few safe Tesla owners selected to share testing of "Full Self-Driving" beta including new driver-monitored city street navigation
- Oct 18 - How to easily install VMware ESXi 7.0 Update 1 onto a 32GB or larger USB flash drive
- Oct 13 - Featured on Tech Breakfast Podcast on Oct 12 2020 "NeXT Computers - Quantum Cryptography - Ransomware - Tesla Update"
- Oct 08 - VMware Cloud Director, VMware Workstation 16 Pro & Fusion 12 Pro additions to VMUG Advantage are now available, along with vSphere 7.0 Update 1!
- Oct 06 - VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 1 is now GA, here's how to download it any which way!
- Oct 01 - VMworld 2020 Recap: VMware vSphere 7.0U1 advancements: SmartNICs (aka DPUs) are going to be big!
- Sep 21 - Mt. Washington Auto Road in an electric vehicle is a beautiful, joyful and thrilling experience!
- Sep 20 - VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 1 announced, with vSAN 7 Update 1 featuring HCI Mesh
- Sep 15 - EV Club of CT's Barry Kresch discusses CHEAPR rebates, Westport CT's Model 3 Police Car, and Jim Motavalli's upcoming interview with Jay Leno
- Sep 10 - Synology DiskStation DS1621xs+ NAS announced featuring VMware agentless backup, Xeon D, 10G and optional M.2 NVMe caching SSDs
- Sep 01 - Get your lab ready for VMware's VMworld 2020, VMUG Advantage is offering TinkerTry readers 15% off throughout September, refer a friend!
- Aug 26 - Supermicro SYS-5028D-TN4T mini-tower/Wiredzone Bundles are now on the VCG for ESXi 7.0 Update, 7.0U1, 7.0U2, full VMware support resumed! (Update - 7.0U3 too)
- Aug 26 - VMware vCenter Server 7.0.0d resolves issue with 7.0.0c high CPU usage in VCSA VM
- Aug 19 - Washington DC VMUG Presentation on Aug 20 2020 - TinkerTry home lab’s VMware vSphere 7.0 upgrade challenges, successes, and lessons learned.
- Jul 29 - NAKIVO Backup & Replication v10 released with VMware vSphere 7.0 support, Linux workstation backup, and backup to Wasabi
- Jul 25 - Sabrent 4TB Rocket NVMe M.2 High Performance SSD - FLIR thermal imagery, firmware tools, and speed tests for VMware ESXi 7.0 VMFS and Windows 10 NTFS
- Jul 18 - How to easily kill a zombie datastore in your VMware vSphere lab
- Jul 09 - Featured on "Home Gadget Geeks" Episode #451 "Paul Braren with Tech Challenges and Successes"
- Jul 03 - How to workaround "Update installation failed. vCenter Server is non-operational." message during VCSA 7.0 update
- Jun 14 - Unboxing Apple 4th Generation iPad Pro 12.9-in. and Magic Keyboard, typing sound compared to Lenovo keyboard
- Jun 10 - How to change or disable your VMware vSphere Client default inactivity timeout
- Jun 08 - VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0 is now available on VMUG Advantage EVALExperience!
- Jun 03 - VMware vExpert applications are now open for 2nd half 2020
- May 27 - A new era in NASA inspiration dawns with the US launch of the futuristic SpaceX Crew Dragon atop the Falcon 9 rocket
- May 18 - How to use iOS/Android devices as “Stats for nerds” gauges in your Tesla Model 3 with an easy DIY OBDLink MX+ install
- May 06 - How to apply your VMUG Advantage EVALExperience vSphere 7 license keys to your home lab
- May 04 - Featured on Tech Breakfast Podcast on May 04 2020 "Digital Transformation - Telsa/Elon - Fairphone - Intel - Rockets"
- Apr 29 - Lack of SMR disclosures in the HDD business
- Apr 26 - Close 4K look at Tesla "Traffic Light and Stop Sign Control (Beta)" used safely on public roads
- Apr 25 - How to configure Ubiquiti mPower PRO outlet names without an mFi controller
- Apr 25 - VMware vSphere / ESXi 7.0 GA work-around for GPU passthrough issues including disabled-after-reboot bug and UI bug
- Apr 15 - Folding@homelab - Inspiring podcasts about the global vCommunity, with nerd stats on TinkerTry's 4 F@h VMs on VMware ESXi 7.0 on 4 Xeon D Servers
- Apr 02 - Quick look at 5 VMware vSphere 7.0 features & tips to organize and personalize your vSphere Client
- Apr 02 - How to upgrade from VMware vSphere 6.7 to vSphere 7.0, vCenter/VCSA first, then ESXi host(s) next
- Apr 02 - VMware vSphere 7.0 is now GA, here's how to download it right away!
- Mar 31 - William Lam's "Homelab considerations for vSphere 7" predicts an easy install for Xeon D Supermicro SuperServers!
- Mar 21 - VMware Appliance for Folding@home - help researchers unfold the mystery of diseases like COVID-19 virtually
- Mar 10 - VMware vSphere 7 Announced
- Feb 27 - Model 3 HW3 brain replacement can cause temporary amnesia but Tesla Service can quickly restore your settings, all you need to know before you go
- Feb 23 - Westport Connecticut Police first to use Tesla battery pack for new Model 3 Police Cruiser's accessories and lights, replacing 10 mpg cruiser with fast, safe, and efficient EV
- Feb 17 - Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 4.0 demo of a fast Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1909 backup
- Feb 11 - VMware's William Lam publishes "VMware Community Homelabs Project" at virtuallyGhetto
- Feb 01 - Affordable and convenient way to get Tesla cables off the garage floor, trip-free charging from above!
- Jan 31 - Michelin CrossClimate+ 18" All Weather tires are a viable year-round replacement for Tesla Model 3, better in snow & rain, cost less, last longer, protect rims, and reduce range only slightly (new for '21 CrossClimate 2, even better!)
- Jan 29 - Things I noticed charging my Tesla Model 3 LR AWD at the very first V3 Superchargers in the Northeastern United States
- Jan 21 - Supermicro Xeon D SuperServer BIOS 2.1 / IPMI 3.86 released, how to upgrade with ease!
- Jan 18 - WhiteCanyon VP Nathan Jones walks me through a live demo of WipeDrive using a VMware ESXi 6.7 VM in TinkerTry's home lab!
- Jan 15 - Hear about the amazing Veeam Vanguard program. Maybe my dozen years of Veeam stories will inspire you to apply by Jan 21 2020!
- Jan 12 - Featured on "Home Gadget Geeks" Episode #429 "Paul Braren Podcasts from the Tesla 3 and Buys Another"
2019
- Dec 31 - TinkerTry tech highlights from the 2010s and an optimistic look ahead
- Dec 24 - Design and specification changes between Tesla Model 3 2018 and 2020 model years and between LR AWD and SR+ models
- Dec 23 - First year and 25,000 miles of Tesla Model 3 ownership went very well, far exceeding our expectations
- Dec 16 - Tesla Tuesday for my wife, getting rid of our last gas car ever, a 2005 Honda Civic
- Oct 28 - Today is my first day at Dell Technologies as an Advisory vArchitect!
- Oct 15 - iPhone XS Plus and iPhone 11 Pro Max Photo Gallery, by Paul Braren at TinkerTry
- Oct 09 - Travel Tech for my 10 days of travel with my parents to Germany, Austria, Czech Republic and Italy before and after 2019 Veeam Vanguard Summit in Prague
- Aug 21 - My VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 3 Upgrade Experience
- Aug 20 - VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 3 Download
- Aug 20 - VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 3 Announced
- Jul 24 - VTUG Summer Slam 2019 was the last VTUG ever! Thanks for the memories, Dawn, Chris, and Chris!
- Jul 24 - NAKIVO Backup & Replication v9.0 adds agent based physical Windows Server backups to existing VMware 6.7 and Hyper-V 2019 backup capabilities
- Jun 23 - Replaced my failed gas water heater with a much more efficient Rheem hybrid electric with WiFi, its quiet heat pump is also dehumidifying and cooling my basement
- Jun 17 - Just started my next adventure in infrastructure IT at Pivot3 as an HCI Solutions Architect!
- Jun 17 - Thank you VMware, for two and a half awesome years as an HCI Systems Engineer!
- Jun 07 - TinkerTry's Eight Birthday Milestones
- May 31 - April's Drive Electric Earth Day moved to Celebrate West Hartford Day on June 1 2019, my Electric Vehicle and I will be there, ask me anything!
- May 27 - Microsoft Windows 10 May 2019 Update / Windows Server 2019 May 2019 Update, version 1903 downloads now available
- May 27 - NAKIVO Backup & Replication v8.5.2 arrives with VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 2 support
- May 27 - Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 3.0.2 supports Microsoft Windows 10 May 2019 Update (version 1903)
- Apr 12 - VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 2 is now generally available for download
- Apr 02 - VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 2 Announced
- Apr 02 - Successor to Intel's popular and home-lab-friendly Xeon D-1500 is Xeon D-1600, announced today
- Mar 26 - New Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition for home labs is free!
- Mar 21 - TinkerTry IT @ home gets into Top 25 vBlog list!
- Mar 11 - Synology DiskStation DS1618+ NAS First Look featuring 10GbE!
- Mar 04 - Successor to Intel's home lab friendly Xeon D-1500 is called Hewitt Lake
- Mar 03 - Tesla's new $35K Model 3 blows Leaf (and Bolt) away in price, range, and safety, so will sub-$40K Model Y Crossover SUV
- Jan 30 - Charging your Tesla Model 3 at home: details to discuss with your electrician
- Jan 20 - Hands-on look at the Apple Smart Battery Case for iPhone XS Max, it's a keeper!
- Jan 16 - Sneak peek at what's cooking at TinkerTry in 2019
- Jan 10 - Intel's 10nm processor dubbed Snow Ridge, likely to be the next generation Xeon D
- Jan 06 - Featured on "Home Gadget Geeks" Episode #385 "Paul Braren with Travel Tech, Ring Stick Up Cams and a New Tesla 3 – HGG385"
- Jan 05 - Best road-tested Tesla Model 3 accessories for all-weather long-distance safety and convenience
2018
- Dec 23 - Tesla Model 3 replacing my 13 year old Honda Civic Hybrid, let's see how that goes. So far, so good!
- Dec 10 - First look at the Ring Stick Up Cam
- Nov 28 - How to configure VMware ESXi 6.7 or later for VMDirectPath I/O pass-through of any NVMe SSD, such as Windows 10 1809 installed directly on an Intel 900P booted in an EFI VM
- Nov 27 - Ian Sanderson's walkthrough details configuration of roll-your-own MFA using free Cisco Duo Authentication for Windows Logon and RDP
- Nov 27 - Vote for your favorite virtualization blogs in various categories, takes about 4 minutes
- Nov 20 - Microsoft Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 download links for re-released version 1809 October 2018 Update
- Oct 31 - Close 4K look at a 4-Node-in-2U All Flash (Optane/NVMe) vSAN ReadyNode™ - The Supermicro SuperServer SYS-2029BT-HNR!
- Oct 31 - New 1U Supermicro SuperServer SYS-E300-9D 4 and 8 core Xeon D-2100 models bring back the E300-8D's M.2 slot and network ports
- Oct 30 - Is the new Mac mini 2019 suited for VMware vSphere/ESXi home labs?
- Oct 18 - vSphere 6.7 Update 1 Released
- Oct 15 - Travel Tech for my 10 days of driving around Germany, Poland, and Czech Republic for Veeam Vanguard Summit in Prague
- Oct 06 - Windows 10 October 2018 Update and Window Server 2019 launched October 2nd then pulled October 5th
- Oct 04 - Supermicro, Amazon, and Apple respond to Bloomberg Businessweek's "Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies" article
- Oct 03 - Fall 2018 is quite the season with Microsoft Windows Server 2019, Windows 10 October 2018 Update, and VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 1 releases!
- Oct 02 - David Chung's SDDC in a box uses 4 Xeon D nodes for vSAN, is relatively quiet, and fits in carry-on!
- Sep 26 - TinkerTry IT @ home featured on Hello From My Homelab
- Sep 14 - How to update any VMware ESXi Hypervisor to the latest using ESXCLI for easy download and install
- Sep 03 - VMworld 2018 US Recap and VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 1 Highlights
- Aug 28 - VMworld 2018 US Solutions Exchange - vendor visit videos
- Aug 23 - TinkerTry Demo at VMworld 2018 US! "See VMware vSphere 6.7 fly on Intel Xeon D with NVMe SSDs [VMTN12504U]" Wed Aug 29 1pm-5pm VMTN Blogger Table at VMvillage
- Aug 20 - Hands-on GIGABYTE Server MB51-PS0 motherboard featuring 4 core Intel Xeon D-2123IT: unboxing in 4K
- Aug 15 - Understanding L1 Terminal Fault Mitigation
- Aug 09 - Supermicro Xeon D SuperServer BIOS 2.0 and IPMI 3.68 released
- Aug 01 - #vBrownBag Supermicro Build Day Live on Aug 2 2018 at 12:00 ET features a BigTwin vSAN Cluster
- Aug 01 - NAKIVO Backup & Replication v7.5 arrives with VMware vSphere 6.7 support
- Jul 05 - First look at the Ring Alarm Home Security System
- Jul 02 - I experienced some intermittent WiFi issues with one of my family member's iOS devices, here was eero WiFi support's spectacular response
- Jun 26 - Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 3a RTM is now available featuring VMware vSphere 6.7 support
- Jun 14 - USB Image Tool for Windows easily backs up and restores your complete VMware ESXi hypervisor on USB or SD flash drives, a simple/free clone for peace of mind before patching or upgrading
- Jun 13 - I'm going to VMworld 2018 US, my 7th time attending, and I get to present!
- May 24 - Hands-on the new Supermicro SuperServer SYS-E300-9D featuring 4 core Intel Xeon D-2123IT: testing and analysis
- May 21 - VeeamON 2018 Recap
- May 04 - How to download your VMUG Advantage EVALExperience VMware vSphere 6.7 VCSA and ESXi ISOs and 365 day license keys
- Apr 22 - VMware Product Interoperability Matrices for VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi)
- Apr 19 - Status of VMware vSphere 6.7 support by VM backup companies
- Apr 19 - Supermicro SuperServer Xeon D-1500 Bundle mini-tower and 1U rack mount are already on the VMware Compatibility Guide for ESXi 6.7
- Apr 18 - How to easily update your VMware Hypervisor from 6.x to 6.7 (ESXi 6.7 Build 8169922) using ESXCLI or VUM
- Apr 18 - How to easily update your VMware vCenter Server Appliance from 6.x to 6.7 (VCSA 6.7 Build 8217866)
- Apr 17 - How to easily install VMware ESXi 6.7 on an Intel Xeon D Supermicro SuperServer
- Apr 17 - VMware vSphere 6.7 released today, here's how to download it right away
- Apr 17 - VMware vSphere 6.7 featuring vSAN 6.7 announced!
- Apr 04 - How to use GRC's new DNS Benchmark, noting that malware protection is likely the primary benefit of avoiding your ISP's default DNS
- Apr 01 - Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 is another Google Public DNS alternative promising better privacy, with tested faster DNS Benchmark speeds
- Mar 27 - Supermicro Xeon D SuperServer BIOS 1.3 released pretty much just for Spectre mitigation / IPMI 3.58 is still the latest
- Mar 21 - NAKIVO v7.4 beta is now open!
- Mar 20 - How to easily update your VMware Hypervisor from 6.x to 6.5 Update 1 Patch Release ESXi-6.5.0-20180304001-standard (ESXi Build 7967591) with Spectre mitigation
- Mar 20 - How to easily update your VMware vCenter Server Appliance from 6.5.x to 6.5 Update 1g (VCSA 6.5 U1g) with Spectre mitigation
- Mar 15 - Supermicro SuperServer Xeon D-1500 Bundle mini-tower and 1U rack mount are finally on the VMware Compatibility Guide for ESXi 6.5U1
- Mar 10 - Introducing the 1U Supermicro SuperServer SYS-E300-9D featuring the new Intel Xeon D-2100, the only somewhat home lab friendly system announced
- Mar 04 - How to replace your Windows 10 certificate so browser security warnings go away after replacing your VMware VCSA
- Feb 28 - Xeon D home lab success stories
- Feb 21 - The big AMD EPYC Embedded 3000 Series Launch, and what it may mean to Intel Xeon D home lab enthusiasts
- Feb 21 - March 1st Connecticut VMUG UserCon - one lucky attendee will win a TinkerTry'd SuperServer, thanks to the VMware User Group!
- Feb 20 - How to easily update your VMware vCenter Server Appliance from 6.5.x to 6.5 Update 1f (VCSA 6.5 U1f) for Meltdown/Spectre-1 mitigation
- Feb 08 - Intel Xeon D-2100 announced, a promising choice for efficient home lab datacenters?
- Feb 05 - Experiencing the first SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch from 7 miles away, the most powerful rocket to launch since Apollo 17 in 1973!
- Feb 02 - Skylake-D information shows up on Intel's Price List
- Jan 23 - Intel SSD 760p Series M.2 NVMe will be available in up to 2TB capacity at near SATA pricing and double 600p performance
- Jan 16 - Apple iPhone X Accessories that feature Bluetooth, Qi Wireless Charging, and/or Lightning connectors for podcast enjoyment anywhere
- Jan 13 - How to easily update your VMware Hypervisor from 6.x to 6.5 Update 1 Patch Release ESXi650-201801001 (ESXi Build 7388607) for Meltdown/Spectre remediation (patch has been pulled)
- Jan 13 - How to easily update your VMware vCenter Server Appliance from 6.5.x to 6.5 Update 1e (VCSA 6.5 U1e)
- Jan 10 - Meltdown and Spectre side-channel attack risk mitigation information from processor, server, and software vendors
- Jan 09 - Google Project Zero (Spectre and Meltdown) patch and flash info for VMware vSphere (ESXi/VCSA) on Intel Xeon D Supermicro SuperServers
- Jan 07 - Featured on "Home Gadget Geeks" Episode #340 "Paul Braren and Vintage Tech, 70s thru 90s Head Phones, Cell Phones, Camcorders and Video Games – HGG340"
2017
- Dec 26 - Workaround and fix for intermittent Intel X552/X557 10GbE/1GbE network link-down outages on Xeon D-1500 Series
- Dec 23 - How to easily update your VMware Hypervisor from 6.x to 6.5 Update 1 Patch 02 (ESXi Build 7388607)
- Dec 23 - How to easily update your VMware vCenter Server Appliance from 6.5.x to 6.5 Update 1d (VCSA 6.5 U1d)
- Dec 09 - Non-UniFi EdgeMax EdgeRouters can be managed with Ubiquiti Network Management System (UNMS) free beta
- Nov 28 - NAKIVO Backup & Replication v7.3 released with faster backup speeds for deduplication appliances
- Nov 22 - Many Intel CPUs contain Management Engine vulnerability to remote execution, here's sample outputs of the new INTEL-SA-00086 Detection Tool
- Nov 17 - Quad9 is a good Google Public DNS alternative with DNSSEC, better privacy, and faster DNS Benchmark speeds
- Nov 13 - Intel announcements include details about benchmarking Optane P4800X in VMware ESXi, new 750GB capacity, and 3D XPoint fab expansion
- Oct 31 - Intel released Intel Xeon D 10GbE X552/X557 driver version 4.5.3 today for VMware ESXi, testing underway
- Oct 31 - How to check network driver and NIC firmware details in VMware ESXi
- Oct 31 - If you'd like to get your mitts on the next vSphere bits, take 2 minutes to join the VMware vSphere Beta program
- Oct 31 - Intel Optane SSD 900P Series is the latest in 3D XPoint NVMe hotness but it is not ideal for most home virtualization lab enthusiasts
- Oct 29 - How to check that your TCP Segmentation Offload is turned on in both your VMware ESXi server and your VM
- Oct 24 - It's Bugtober, with Adobe Flash crashes, numerous CVE vulnerability patches for Wi-Fi and routers, and an Intel SPI vulnerability patch for most Xeon D Supermicro SuperServers
- Oct 21 - Supermicro Xeon D SuperServer BIOS 1.2c / IPMI 3.58 released
- Oct 20 - Windows 10 Fall Creators Update introduces GPU monitoring features built right into Task Manager
- Oct 16 - VMUG Advantage EVALExperience includes latest VMware vRealize Log Insight 4.5 syslog server appliance for easy vSphere, vSAN, IoT, and networking gear log file analysis
- Oct 14 - Road-warrior productivity boosted by ASUS ZenScreen MB16AC secondary travel display that connects to Mac or PC with just one USB-C or USB 3.0 cable
- Oct 12 - VMUG Advantage just added the latest VMware Workstation 14 Pro and Fusion 10 Pro to EVALExperience
- Oct 08 - How to easily update your VMware Hypervisor from 6.5.x to 6.5 Update 1 Express Patch 4 (ESXi 6.5 U1 EP4)
- Oct 08 - How to use Intel isdct to change NVMe SSD variable sector size before using as VMFS or vSAN, note 4Kn (native) drives aren't supported by VMware yet
- Oct 04 - VMware volunteers help families in Houston Texas whose homes had been flooded by Hurricane Harvey
- Sep 24 - My VMworld 2017 US Experience
- Sep 11 - Supermicro Xeon D SuperServer BIOS 1.2b / IPMI 3.58 released
- Sep 08 - Featured on "Home Gadget Geeks" Episode #325 "Paul Braren with Updates on VMware, the World’s first look at Intel Optane P4800X, eero and much more!- HGG325"
- Sep 02 - VMworld 2017 US VMTN Community Blogger - VMware vSphere 6.5U1 home datacenter demo
- Aug 29 - VMworld 2017 US Solutions Exchange - vendor visit videos
- Aug 24 - How to configure VMware ESXi 6.5.x for VMDirectPath I/O pass-through of any NVMe SSD, such as Windows Server 2016 installed directly on an Intel Optane P4800X booted in an EFI VM
- Aug 23 - Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 2 has full vSphere 6.5 Update 1 support, free NFR also available for Veeam Agent for Windows, Linux, and Backup for MS Office 365
- Aug 17 - Meet me at the VMworld 2017 US PEX and HCI Zone booths, or at the TinkerTry Virtualization Hardware Discussion Zone in the VMTN Community Blogger area Tue. Aug. 29 11am-2pm
- Aug 15 - Intel's new Ruler form factor allows up to 1PB of NVMe in 1U, along with a new 2.5" 3.8TB SATA SSD and Dual Port SSDs for Data Centers
- Aug 11 - World's First Close Look at Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X Series - PCIe NVMe arrives with 375GB of 3D XPoint!
- Aug 05 - How to find NVMe SSD firmware versions on VMware ESXi using ESXCLI
- Aug 03 - VMUG Advantage just added the latest vRealize Automation Enterprise to EVALExperience!
- Jul 30 - 10G networking for your Laptop - Promise SANLink3 T1 NBaseT Adapter blesses your Thunderbolt 3/USB-C desktop or laptop with 1.0/2.5/5.0/10GbE speeds
- Jul 28 - See "What's inside VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 1" by Florian Grehl at virten.net featuring historical ESX/ESXi graph
- Jul 28 - How to easily update your VMware Hypervisor from 6.5.x to 6.5 Update 1 (ESXi 6.5 U1)
- Jul 28 - How to easily update your VMware vCenter Server Appliance from 6.5.x to 6.5 Update 1 (VCSA 6.5 U1)
- Jul 27 - VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 1 downloads available (VCSA 6.5 U1 / ESXi 6.5 U1), new vSAN 6.6.1 goodness baked right in
- Jul 26 - Supermicro Xeon D SuperServer BIOS 1.2a / IPMI 3.58 released
- Jul 25 - I'm going to VMworld 2017 US, my 6th time attending!
- Jul 19 - Supermicro SuperServer Workstation Graphics Card selection revisited, featuring VMware ESXi 6.5 passthrough testing of HHHL PCIe GPUs
- Jul 17 - How to easily update your VMware vCenter Server Appliance from VCSA 6.5.x to 6.5.0e
- Jul 11 - Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Purley) Unveiled - Intel and VMware touting roughly 2.5x the performance and 4x as many VMs versus the Xeon of 4 years ago
- Jul 11 - Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite (UBNT ERLite-3) Update - still works great for my family, and for my VMware vSphere, Windows, and Linux home lab
- Jun 19 - Back-level VMware ESXi 6.5 vmkusb to 6.0 to restore Windows 10 VM's USB sound
- Jun 11 - Intel Optane M.2 16GB/32GB consumer NVMe SSDs for Windows caching are not that fast as VMware VMFS or NTFS, save up for bigger PCIe versions
- Jun 04 - Intel Xeon D is a rather versatile platform, have a look!
- Jun 04 - Voting now open for Top vBlog 2017
- Jun 03 - May 2017 CPU Announcements - Intel Xeon Processor Scalable family and AMD EPYC for Datacenters, Intel 8th Gen Core i9 and AMD Ryzen Threadripper for Desktops
- May 31 - VeeamON 2017 - Availability Suite v10 announced featuring backup of NASs and built-in Management for new Veeam Agent for Windows v2, unifying VM & PC backups
- May 26 - The VeeamON 2017 Experience
- May 15 - Road-warrior productivity boosters for laptops blessed with USB-C but no Ethernet or VGA
- May 13 - Open feedback for popular and free Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 2.0 (RTM Pilot)
- May 13 - What Veeam is doing to help protect you from ransomware like WannaCry
- May 13 - VeeamON 2017 has some remarkable technologists, and I'll be there!
- May 02 - New Supermicro BIOS 1.2 and (under validation) IPMI 3.52 for Xeon D SuperServers released Spring 2017
- May 01 - VMUG Advantage just added the latest NSX 6.3.1 and All Flash vSAN 6.6 bits to EVALExperience, great for vSphere home labs, just $200 a year!
- Apr 27 - Samsung tells M.2 NVMe SSD firmware updaters "Download Limit Exceeded. We apologize for your inconvenience." Seriously?
- Apr 26 - How to import your VCSA certificate so ALL VMware vSphere browser security warnings go away in Windows 10
- Apr 23 - How to fix inaccurate Xeon D Hardware Health sensor readings on VMware ESXi 6.5.x, since sfcbd CIM service is off by default
- Apr 18 - How to easily update your VMware Hypervisor from ESXi 6.5.x to 6.5.0d
- Apr 18 - How to easily update your VMware vCenter Server Appliance from VCSA 6.5.x to 6.5.0d
- Apr 18 - vSAN 6.6 arrives, baked right into those VMware vSphere 6.5.0d bits that went GA today!
- Apr 15 - "SuperMicro vs Intel NUC" by Tai Ratcliff, featuring Xeon D inside!
- Apr 15 - "Project USB to SDDC" by William Lam, featuring Xeon D inside!
- Apr 10 - AMD Ryzen's VMware ESXi 6.5 PSOD workaround is to slow system by 30%, currently not a compelling Intel Xeon D alternative
- Apr 09 - Paul Braren and Allyn Malventano discuss NAND SSD's rough start, M.2 NVMe, and how 3D XPoint will get even faster
- Mar 31 - How to easily update your VMware Hypervisor from ESXi 6.5 to 6.5.0a Build 5224934 Advisory ID VMSA-2017-0006 - Critical Severity
- Mar 29 - My experience demoing Xeon D home lab and talking NVMe and vSAN with Supermicro at the recent NYC VMUG, thank you Ariel Sanchez, and welcome to VMware!
- Mar 28 - NAKIVO Backup & Replication v7 released with full VMware vSphere 6.5 support
- Mar 27 - VMware vSphere Taskbar Shortcuts Unleashed - profile switcher isolated and uncluttered Chrome Browser UIs act like native Windows apps!
- Mar 21 - Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X Series can be ultra fast vSAN cache, storage, or RHEL/SLES 8x memory extender using Intel Memory Drive Technology
- Mar 15 - How to easily update your VMware vCenter Server Appliance from VCSA 6.5.x to 6.5.0b
- Mar 05 - OneJet 7 seater flies you direct with a first-class experience, at as little as 10% more than airliner's indirect coach flight
- Mar 04 - Featured on "Home Gadget Geeks" Episode #299 "Paul Braren from TinkerTry, Now With VMware- HGG299"
- Mar 04 - Notes from MWhite - another great newsletter for IT Pros
- Feb 19 - Technical details about Intel Optane Memory quietly announced, consumer M.2 version coming to 7th Gen Core Processors first
- Feb 18 - "HomeLab: SUPERMICRO 5028D-TN4T Review" by Chestin Hay at Let’s v4Real
- Feb 14 - Public Speaking Schedule
- Feb 14 - Laptop died? Pull that Windows 10 Pro SATA SSD, attach to another UEFI system using a USB 3.0/3.1 adapter, boots like Windows To Go!
- Feb 12 - How to free up that internal 2.5" HDD/SSD drive bay in your Dell Precision 5510 laptop
- Feb 07 - NAKIVO Backup & Replication v7 Beta offers full vSphere 6.5 support
- Feb 07 - How to easily update your VMware vCenter Server Appliance from VCSA 6.5 to 6.5.0a
- Feb 03 - How to easily update your VMware Hypervisor from ESXi 6.x to 6.5.0a
- Feb 02 - Veeam Vanguard 2017 announced, 3rd year with TinkerTry friends!
- Jan 25 - Install Windows Server 2016 & Hyper-V on a TinkerTry'd Supermicro SuperServer Bundle 2 8-Core Xeon D with built-in Intel RSTe RAID, by Steve Shanks
- Jan 25 - Migrating to Windows Server 2012 R2 on a TinkerTry'd Supermicro SuperServer Bundle 2 8-Core Xeon D with built-in Intel RSTe RAID, by Steve Shanks
- Jan 25 - Articles about installing VMware vSphere 6.5 on your TinkerTry'd Supermicro SuperServer Bundle Xeon D
- Jan 09 - Today is my first day at VMware!
- Jan 03 - Samsung 960 EVO vs 950 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD - FLIR thermal video of VMware vSphere 6.5 Windows 10 VM cloning
- Jan 02 - Samsung 960 PRO/EVO/SM961 M.2 NVMe SSD disappearance-after-reboot-or-bios-change workaround is to power cycle, bug fixed in PRO/EVO firmware 2B6QCXP7/2B7QCXE7
- Jan 01 - How to fix DNS short name lookup failures on Ubiquiti EdgeRouter firmware v1.9.1
2016
- Dec 31 - Thank you IBM, for 21 amazing years!
- Dec 29 - XPoint Storage Accelerator arrives in Kaby Lake ThinkPads in early 2017 as a really fast 16GB NVMe cache for its Intel RST RAID volume
- Dec 23 - The Portable Software-Defined Datacenter by Zack Widing, VMware vSAN cluster features 4 Xeon D Supermicro SuperServers
- Dec 21 - VMUG Advantage features EVALExperience, now with the latest VMware vSphere 6.5 inside!
- Dec 07 - The Xeon D Supermicro SuperServer "Bundle 2" of joy, a complete home datacenter virtualization solution that really flies
- Dec 07 - vSphere 6.5 Core Storage white paper - one home virtualization lab enthusiast's perspective
- Dec 06 - M.2 expansion for your NVMe SSDs - EZDIY adds, Angelbird Wings adds and cools, Amfeltec Squid adds, cools, and quadruples
- Nov 30 - Where to buy your Samsung 960 EVO or PRO M.2 NVMe SSDs, featuring the latest ordering and availability info
- Nov 25 - How to remap F2 in Supermicro iKVM Remote Console to get to VMware ESXi "Customize System/View Logs"
- Nov 22 - Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 NFR license now available to certified IT Pros, vSphere 6.5 support coming soon
- Nov 22 - How to map a network share to boot from ISO, moving Supermicro Java iKVM to browser-only HTML5 iKVM
- Nov 20 - How to easily update your VMware Hypervisor to ESXi 6.5
- Nov 20 - How to easily update your VMware vCenter Server Appliance to VCSA 6.5
- Nov 19 - Holidays Shopping 2016 - TinkerTry Tech Savings
- Nov 18 - VMware ESXi 6.5 runs well on Xeon D Supermicro ServerServers, here's what you need to know
- Nov 16 - VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 6.1.1 works with ESXi 6.5, virtualizing Windows PCs & VMs for free
- Nov 16 - Easy fix for Supermicro and other Xeon D systems experiencing SATA3/AHCI slowdown on ESXi 6.5
- Nov 16 - In VMware vSphere 6.5, missing functions in speedy HTML5 Web UI leaves us saddled with vSphere Web Client (Flash), C# Client still connects to hosts, but not to vSphere
- Nov 15 - VMware ESXi 6.5 first look at install/config featuring vSphere Host Client HTML5 Web UI
- Nov 15 - VMware vSphere 6.5 released!
- Nov 10 - How to automatically run an elevated program shortcut at Windows startup, without login or UAC prompts
- Nov 07 - Supermicro SuperServer Xeon D / X10SDV IPMI Release Notes Changelog
- Nov 07 - Supermicro SuperServer Xeon D / X10SDV BIOS Release Notes Changelog
- Nov 04 - New Supermicro BIOS 1.1c and IPMI 3.46 for Xeon D SuperServers features HTML5 iKVM
- Oct 27 - Supermicro SuperServer SYS-5028D-TN4T 65 watt 12 core Xeon D-1567 uses taller heatsink and larger, slower CPU fan than 8 core 45 watt Xeon D-1541
- Oct 25 - Unboxing and assembly of first Xeon D-1567 Supermicro system, the SYS-5028D-TN4T 12 Core Bundle 2
- Oct 23 - Check out "vSphere 6.5 – Everything You Need To Know" by Brian Graf & "Migrate 2 VCSA (you should)" podcast featuring Emad Younis
- Oct 22 - How to use Parted Magic's Secure Erase for SSDs, updated for PCIe and M.2 NVMe
- Oct 19 - TinkerTry Highlights 001
- Oct 19 - TinkerTry Highlights 000 - Introduction
- Oct 18 - VMware vSphere 6.5 announced today, here's how to download it fast
- Oct 14 - Camtasia 9 video editor finally arrives with a new UI, 4K support, and 64 bits on PC or Mac. Worth the wait?
- Oct 13 - NAKIVO Backup & Replication v6.2 released, same easy choice for VM backups, with new AWS EC2 instance support
- Oct 12 - ASUS XG-U2008 fanless unmanaged network switch - $249 gets 8 1GbE ports and 2 10GbE ports for my Xeon D two-node cluster
- Oct 06 - Three more chances at seeing a TinkerTry Xeon D SuperServer virtualization demo in 2016, at VMUGs in Vermont, Florida, and Minnesota!
- Oct 03 - Dave McCabe announced podcast RESET at #BestMeetupEver 2016 where SmartHomeHQ took 360° video of TinkerTry'd SuperServer overview
- Oct 01 - Windows Server 2016 ISO now available for download, Microsoft offering free datacenter licenses to VMware users*
- Sep 29 - Notes from MWhite - "Home Lab Decision Making – NUC and Supermicro" and "Setting up my new Supermicro vSphere host"
- Sep 22 - iPhone 7 Plus really does perform 2 to 3 times faster than iPhone 6 Plus
- Sep 21 - Anandtech - Samsung Announces 960 PRO And 960 EVO M.2 PCIe SSDs (Updated)
- Sep 10 - Check out vBrownBag's many "Focus on the expert – VMworld US 2016" video interviews, featuring Xeon D cluster demonstration
- Sep 10 - On Xeon D Supermicro SuperServers, don't connect 24 pin ATX power connector at the same time as nearby 4 pin connector
- Sep 09 - Bug in some Intel Broadwell CPUs (Xeon D-1500 and Xeon E5/E7 v4) can result in VMware ESXi 5.5/6.0 PSODs, VMware KB 2146388 explains BIOS fix needed (FIX released Sep 14 2016)
- Sep 08 - Ring Video Doorbell users also have PC and Mac apps, faster than unlocking your phone
- Sep 07 - So glad VMware is doing this, all VMworld 2016 sessions now available to the general public!
- Sep 07 - Dell-EMC merger completed today forming Dell Technologies, hear what VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger told vExperts at VMworld 2016 US
- Sep 02 - VMworld 2016 - The video interviews - Infinio, Micron, Supermicro, TinkerTry, and Veeam
- Sep 01 - AnandTech "Evaluating Futuremark's Servermark VDI on the Supermicro SYS-5028D-TN4T"
- Aug 31 - Introducing Supermicro's first Xeon D-1567, you asked for it, 12 core mini tower with even more CPU capacity strikes balance between performance, power, and cost
- Aug 30 - My experience at VMworld 2016 US
- Aug 24 - Endpoint Backup FREE stays free, with new support options and new name, Veeam Agent for Windows and Veeam Agent for Linux
- Aug 21 - Replaced my Linksys router with an eero 3 pack after also testing Luma mesh surround Wi-Fi, faster wireless in every room has arrived!
- Aug 17 - First look at Ubiquiti mPower Pro power strip, home lab pricing, enterprise features, uncertain future
- Aug 16 - TinkerTry's Xeon D All Flash vSAN mini-cluster featuring Supermicro and Intel NUC - Live VMworld US demo Wed. Aug. 31 8am-1pm at VMvillage, thanks @vCommunityGuy!
- Aug 12 - Choosing ideal mini server for a home lab, by Askar Kopbayev of VMware
- Aug 08 - Intel Core i7 Skull Canyon NUC6i7KYK spec comparison with all current Xeon D-1500 Supermicro SuperServers suited for home labs
- Aug 08 - Supermicro SuperServer Xeon D-1500 BIOS 1.1b released, IPMI 3.31 released, heralding the arrival of HTML5 iKVM
- Aug 03 - Download Windows 10 Anniversary Update Disk Image (ISO File) for your clean install PCs and VMs
- Aug 02 - NAKIVO Backup & Replication 6.1 released, still an easy choice for VM backups
- Aug 02 - TinkerTry's Xeon D cluster for VMworld 2016, man with a vSAN demo plan!
- Aug 02 - How to clear or edit VMware vSphere Client's connection history cluttered with old server names and IPs
- Jul 31 - Netgear XS708T managed 8 port 10GbE switch unboxed, noise and power draw measured - suited for Xeon D cluster
- Jul 31 - Cisco SG112-24 unmanaged 24 port gigabit switch unboxed - efficient, fanless, and surprisingly affordable
- Jul 31 - Intel NUC6i7KYK inside, M.2 NVMe SSD installed, noise and power draw measured
- Jul 31 - Supermicro SYS-E300-8D/SYS-E200-8D/SYS-5028D-TN4T and Intel NUC NUC6i7KYK - decibel and watt comparison
- Jul 28 - Supermicro SuperServer SYS-E300-8D and E200-8D powerhouses arrive, have a look under the hood!
- Jul 27 - Sneak preview of the upcoming HTML5 version of Supermicro Xeon D iKVM remote management shows you can't jettison Java quite yet
- Jul 20 - Supermicro SuperServer SYS-E300-8D and SYS-E200-8D close-up pictures
- Jul 19 - Attend VTUG Summer Slam 2016, your chance to choose a FREE TinkerTry'd Supermicro SuperServer Bundle 2!
- Jul 16 - Intel NUC-like micro servers with 4 or 8 1GbE/10GbE ports? Introducing Supermicro SuperServer SYS-E300-8D and E200-8D powerhouses, Xeon D-1518/1528 inside!
- Jul 13 - Summer 2016 is heating up with ecobee3 and Ring Pro Video Doorbell updates, mesh WiFi tinkering, quiet 10GbE switch, 1TB M.2 NVMe, and falling DDR4 prices
- Jul 13 - Lower memory cost reduces price of Xeon D-1541 SuperServer Mini Tower Bundles, 1U version also available
- Jul 06 - NAKIVO v6.1 beta is now open!
- Jul 06 - Save backup storage using Veeam Backup & Replication BitLooker, a free way to reclaim wasted space in your VMs
- Jun 29 - Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE network backups to Windows Server 2016 with Dedup, a promising combination
- Jun 25 - Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE works well with Windows Server 2016 (beta) already, here's how
- Jun 22 - Samsung announces 960 PRO, 960 EVO, SM961, and PM961 NVMe M.2 SSDs in up to 1TB capacity
- Jun 22 - Supermicro SuperServer Xeon D increases DDR4 support from 2133MHz to 2400MHz while Xeon D-1541 bundle prices are lowered
- Jun 17 - HTTP/2 testing happening at TinkerTry.com, speed-up not currently available on Chrome (Fixed on Sep 20 2016, ALPN now implemented!)
- Jun 17 - How to easily install Windows Server 2016/Hyper-V on an Intel Xeon D Supermicro SuperServer
- Jun 08 - Puget Systems publishes "Samsung 950 Pro M.2 Additional Cooling Testing"
- Jun 04 - Supermicro Redfish API in IPMI firmware 3.3 also supports HTML5 UI
- Jun 03 - How to easily install VMware ESXi 6.0 on an Intel Xeon D Supermicro SuperServer
- Jun 02 - Experts 2 Experts Virtualization Conference 2016 Las Vegas - presentation featuring live demonstration
- Jun 01 - TinkerTry's Fifth Birthday, June 1, 2016 - momentary pause for self-congratulatory backslapping and prognostication
- Jun 01 - Voter results are in for Supermicro SuperServer bundle preferences featuring Xeon D-1541/1567/1587
- May 22 - New Intel 6th generation Core i7 NUC, Skull Canyon, doesn't currently run ESXi 6.0 - Fixed!
- May 19 - Vote by May 31st for which Supermicro SuperServer Xeon D-1500 bundle you'd like to see, Amazing, Insane, or Ludicrous?
- May 18 - Nice Canadian gives tour of world's first 16 core Intel Xeon D-1587 Supermicro SuperServer Mini-Tower
- May 18 - VMware announced there's no vSphere Client for Windows for the next vSphere release, HTML5 web UIs are the future, forcing us to suffer vSphere Web Client during this transition
- May 14 - Smart doorbell owner heard audio from other house thanks to a weird bug
- May 11 - SR-IOV works with VMware ESXi 6 and Xeon D-1540/1541, but Supermicro implies it's only supported with 1541
- May 08 - Featured on "Home Gadget Geeks" Episode #259 "Paul Braren, Hands on with the Ring Pro and Echo Star Wars Day – HGG259"
- May 04 - Voting now open for Top vBlog 2016
- May 03 - Chris Williams of Mistwire - How to get your free* AWS account & spin up your first VM
- Apr 29 - My Ring Video Doorbell story starts a new chapter with Ring Video Doorbell Pro
- Apr 25 - vSphere Design Pocketbook v3.0 is now available
- Apr 19 - vSphere HTML5 Web Client Fling v1.2 (h5client) arrives as VMware moves away from Client Integration Plugin (CIP)
- Apr 19 - VMware wants your vSphere Beta feedback, simple sign-up form is now available
- Apr 04 - How to easily shutdown or restart Windows over Remote Desktop Connection
- Apr 02 - Use Chrome for VMware-related taskbar shortcuts, unclutter your browser-based UIs so they look like native apps!
- Mar 30 - Liberate your Western Digital 8TB drive from its MyBook external enclosure to pay just $250, much cheaper than internal
- Mar 30 - Did you know March 31st is World Backup Day?
- Mar 30 - TinkerTry appearance on Microsoft Channel 9 - Everything You Need To Know About State Of The Art SSD Drives NVMe, PCIe, M.2
- Mar 30 - TinkerTry live 45 minute Supermicro SuperServer demo Mar. 31 2016 at 3:15pm EDT, part of xenappblog's all day virtual expo, free!
- Mar 29 - vSphere HTML5 Web Client arrives as a VMware Fling, a glimpse at vSphere's future UI
- Mar 23 - How to enable higher Windows VGA resolutions on both your monitor and your Supermicro Remote Console
- Mar 22 - NAKIVO Backup & Replication 6.0 VMware appliance is an easy choice for VM backups, can be installed directly on a Western Digital or Synology NAS!
- Mar 17 - Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE 1.5 released with email notifications and enhanced protection from CryptoLocker
- Mar 17 - New Intel 6th generation Core i7 NUC, Skull Canyon NUC6i7KYK with dual M.2 and up to 32GB of RAM
- Mar 16 - How to easily update your VMware Hypervisor to ESXi 6.0 Update 2
- Mar 16 - How to easily update your VMware vCenter Server Appliance to VCSA 6.0 Update 2
- Mar 16 - Download VMware VCSA/ESXi 6.0 Update 2
- Mar 13 - Free NFR of Veeam Availability Suite v9 with Backup & Replication for VCPs, vExperts, and many other certified professionals
- Mar 12 - Upgrade Supermicro Xeon D-1540/1541 from BIOS 1.0b/1.0c to 1.1 for identical features, including SR-IOV for 10GbE!
- Mar 12 - How to manually reset your Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE database
- Mar 09 - PC Perspective's new way to visualize snappy SSD performance, even at triple 950 PRO M.2 NVMe RAID0 speeds
- Mar 08 - Supermicro's beloved iKVM Console Redirection is dumping problem-ridden Java for HTML5, yay!
- Mar 04 - CPU and chassis fan replacements attempt to reduce Supermicro SYS-5028D-TN4T mini-tower's already low noise levels while increasing M.2 NVMe SSD cooling
- Mar 02 - Another great Connecticut VMUG UserCon yesterday, with VMUG member presentation "The Ultimate Home Lab"
- Feb 26 - Intel's first M.2 NVMe SSD might be available by late 2016, around the time Intel Micron 3D XPoint arrives
- Feb 23 - Supermicro debuts new compact Intel Xeon Processor D based products and complete servers/storage solutions at Embedded World, Nuremberg
- Feb 21 - Intel Xeon D-1540/1541 HWiNFO64 and power usage comparisons
- Feb 19 - Xeon D-1587/1581/1577/1571 16 Core CPU full specs found at Intel ARK, 12 Core 1567 looks the most interesting
- Feb 17 - Intel Xeon D-1500 full specs for new 8/12/16 core models now available at Supermicro, good fit for home labs?
- Feb 14 - Supermicro SuperServer SYS-5028D-TN4T mini-tower available in 1U version featured in 3 node PernixData $10K give-away
- Feb 11 - Researching the latest Skylake Core i5 Intel NUC's suitability for VMware virtualization and vSAN
- Feb 11 - First Look - SR-IOV support in Intel Xeon D-1541
- Feb 10 - VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 Features Deduplication, Compression, and RAID5 or RAID6 over 10GbE
- Feb 10 - Supermicro SuperServer SYS-5028D-TN4T mini-tower now ready for business as the first Intel Xeon D-1500 in the VMware HCL (Compatibility Guide)
- Feb 08 - Intel Xeon Processor D-1500 Product Family Thermal/Mechanical Specification and Design Guide
- Feb 07 - First look at the new Intel Xeon D-1541 Supermicro SuperServer SYS-5028D-TN4T
- Feb 06 - First Look at the FLIR ONE Thermal Imaging camera for smartphones and tablets
- Feb 06 - Supermicro Embedded/IoT Solutions - 1U, mini-tower, and many more
- Feb 05 - Freshly re-minted VMware vExpert 2016
- Feb 03 - TinkerTravels 2016 - More than a dozen technical demonstrations at a variety of user groups and conferences
- Feb 03 - Next Generation Storage Tech Stories
- Feb 03 - My 8 core Intel Xeon D-1541 arrives by mid February, no ETA on 12 and 16 core models
- Jan 30 - Samsung 850 EVO 2TB SSD revisited - 6 months of time, 40TBs of writes, and one firmware later...
- Jan 27 - VMware Workstation and Fusion teams let go, what could this mean
- Jan 27 - You can boot from a Samsung 950 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD in a PCIe slot - tested with Supermicro 5028D-TN4T & Lycom DT-120 M.2 to PCIe adapter
- Jan 26 - New Windows 10 NVMe driver 1.4.7.16 released for Samsung SSD 950 PRO M.2
- Jan 19 - How cool is that Hypercube Lego Server, featuring the powerful Xeon D-1540 on tiny and familiar Supermicro X10SDV-F motherboard
- Jan 16 - Ultimate guide to mousing your way across multiple Windows 10 desktops with ease for an instant productivity boost
- Jan 15 - Longest email thread ever about Xeon D-1540, VMware, NVMe, vSAN, backup dedupe, and so much more...
- Jan 15 - Recommended BIOS Settings for Supermicro SuperServer SYS-5028D-TN4T
- Jan 13 - Benchmark Optimized BIOS Settings for Supermicro SuperServer SYS-5028D-TN4T
- Jan 12 - How to easily update your VMware vCenter Server Appliance to VCSA 6.0 Update 1b
- Jan 07 - How to easily update your VMware server to ESXi 6.0 Update 1b
- Jan 07 - Download or Upgrade - VMware VCSA/ESXi 6.0 Update 1b
- Jan 03 - VMware ESXi 6.0 Windows 10 VM speed comparison between Intel 750 Series NVMe SSD and Samsung 950 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD
- Jan 01 - Getting started with Nutanix Community Edition the easy way - using Rufus on Windows to create bootable USB for automated server install
- Jan 01 - Welcome to 2016, here's a peek into the future...
2015
- Dec 24 - Dell XPS 15 with Samsung PM951 NVMe SSD - speed testing
- Dec 23 - Supermicro SuperServer SYS-5028D-TN4T X10SDV-TLN4F Xeon D-1540 motherboard is compatible with VMware ESXi 5.5 and ESXi 6.0
- Dec 23 - My hometown of Wethersfield Connecticut - settled in 1634 - nestled right between Boston and New York City
- Dec 23 - How virtuallyGhetto's "How to bootstrap the VCSA using the ESXi Embedded Host Client" might help your home lab vSphere 6.0 rebuild
- Dec 15 - Intel Xeon D-1540 gets 5% speed bump as D-1541 with SR-IOV in a Supermicro SuperServer Feb. 2016, comparison with Core i7 6700K (Skylake), should I wait?
- Dec 14 - Professional VMware's vBrownBag End-Of-Year Community Give Away 2015 Edition is bigger than ever, sign up by Dec 16
- Dec 14 - Register by Dec 22 to win Veeam's year-end $10K home lab global giveaway, your chance to get a free Supermicro SuperServer Bundle?
- Dec 14 - PC Perspective's Allyn Malventano and This Week in Computer Hardware's Patrick Norton talk storage tech - NASs, NVMe, M.2, StableBit, 3D XPoint, a great listen
- Dec 09 - My experience at the Boston VMUG USERCON Dec 8 2015, amazing speakers and 12 home lab giveaways!
- Dec 09 - Mastering VMware vSphere 6 book for the holidays
- Dec 02 - TinkerTry'd SuperServer featured at Virtualization Review "The Quest for the Right Virtual Home Lab Server"
- Nov 20 - My first Providence VMUG, Nov 19 2015
- Nov 18 - Copying about 50GB from a Samsung 950 PRO NVMe SSD back to itself is slower than copying to another 950 PRO over 10GbE
- Nov 17 - How does copying over 200GB from one Samsung 950 PRO NVMe SSD to another in under 3 minutes sound? (42 copies of a 4.4GB Linux distro)
- Nov 14 - Samsung 950 PRO NVMe SSD boots in 6.6 seconds using Windows 10 Fall Update 1511 with a Supermicro SuperServer
- Nov 10 - Video Speed Controller Chrome Extension is like adding TiVo and podcast app playback controls to any HTML5 video, including repeat, skip, and speed
- Nov 09 - How to free up VMware ESXi local drive VMFS datastore space after deleting data in a thin provisioned Windows VM - SDeleting or Powershelling and Hole Punching avoids vMotion workaround
- Nov 09 - Intel grows the Xeon D Platform, with 8 new Xeon D CPUs announced today, and 16 core version arriving in Q1 2016
- Nov 07 - World's fastest consumer SSD - Samsung 950 PRO M.2 NVMe benchmark results
- Nov 05 - How to install Samsung 950 PRO M.2 SSD in a PCIe slot - tested with Supermicro 5028D-TN4T & Lycom DT-120 M.2 to PCIe adapter
- Nov 05 - How to boot Windows 10 from NVMe based PCIe storage, featuring Samsung 950 PRO M.2 SSD in a Supermicro SYS-5028D-TN4T
- Nov 04 - Free SolarWinds VM Monitor works nicely on Windows 10 to monitor your VMware ESX 3.5 right through ESXi 6.5
- Nov 02 - How to download and install the Intel Xeon D 10GbE X552/X557 driver/VIB for VMware ESXi 6.x, works with the X540 PCIe card too
- Oct 30 - New TinkerTry'd Supermicro SuperServer Bundle 2 and Bundle 3 - lower cost of entry for your VERY upgradable virtualization home lab, now shipping from US and EU!
- Oct 30 - Order a TinkerTry'd Supermicro SuperServer Bundle - powerful and efficient home virtualization lab solutions
- Oct 30 - Intel Xeon D-1540 10GbE X552/X557 driver/VIB for VMware ESXi 6 on Supermicro 5028D-TN4T/X10SDV-TLN4F now available!
- Oct 29 - Upgrade your VMware ESXi 6.0 to Update 1a the easy way
- Oct 29 - How to change Windows 10 network location from Private to Public
- Oct 27 - Win a TurboStack Home Lab by VMTurbo
- Oct 22 - World's Fastest Consumer SSD - Samsung 950 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD 256GB/512GB available for pre-order now, arriving Oct. 30
- Oct 22 - First look at Infinio Accelerator with SuperServer cluster shared Synology iSCSI datastore
- Oct 21 - Use all your monitors for Remote Desktop to Windows 7 PCs or VMs by sidegrading from Professional to Ultimate, getting past Pro's one-monitor restriction
- Oct 20 - Andreas Peetz created ESXi-Customizer-PS, Alex López's video shows you exactly how to use it for your home lab
- Oct 20 - Download/Install VMware ESXi 6.0 U1a and vSphere 6.0 Update 1
- Oct 16 - Intel Xeon D-1540 10GbE X552/X557 driver/VIB for VMware ESXi 6 on Supermicro 5028D-TN4T system's X10SDV-TLN4F mobo expected by early Nov. 2015
- Oct 14 - Upgrade your VMware Workstation and ESXi VMs to Windows 10 or Windows 2016, despite warnings about VMware SVGA incompatibility
- Oct 14 - Intel SSD 750 Series NVMe PCIe installation in Supermicro SuperServer 5028D-TN4T, the easy way
- Oct 13 - There's one weekly newsletter that any VMware or Hyper-V professional will enjoy, already has 35,218 subscribers
- Oct 12 - Announcing NAKIVO Backup & Replication v5.8 - virtual appliance, Windows service, or installed on an Intel-based Western Digital NAS
- Oct 10 - Supermicro SuperServer 5028D-TN4T vSAN dream is alive! Home lab video overview features (unsupported) Intel SSDs and Samsung M.2 SSDs
- Oct 10 - Microsoft's first laptop ever - Surface Book speeds, feeds, and emotions
- Oct 06 - Went to "Microsoft Windows 10 devices event" NYC after party, met Paul Thurrott & Mary Jo Foley again, along with many other prominent bloggers/journalists
- Oct 02 - Digi AnywhereUSB/2 reliably attaches my keyboard and mouse to Windows 10 VM on a VMware ESXi SuperServer that is also my primary workstation
- Sep 29 - Intel 750 Series NVMe PCIe SSD supported by ESXi 6.x out-of-the-box, install Intel's VIB for full speed
- Sep 25 - Superguide: SuperServer home virtualization lab storage tiers, platinum through bronze, how many efficient drives fit inside this tiny chassis?
- Sep 25 - First look - Intel 750 Series NVMe PCIe SSD in a Supermicro SuperServer 5028D-TN4T
- Sep 23 - First look - Samsung SM951 M.2 SSD in a Supermicro SuperServer 5028D-TN4T
- Sep 23 - Supermicro Superserver 5028D-TN4T UEFI BIOS 1.0.b and IPMI 02.14 released - improves boot from M.2 or NVMe support
- Sep 22 - Samsung announces 950 PRO V-NAND NVMe M.2 SSD, 512GB 2.5 GB/s version arrives in October, 1TB next year
- Sep 22 - Camtasia Studio for screen recording and Snagit for screenshots - some tips, and a way to get 20% off through Sep 24
- Sep 20 - Superguide: Supermicro SuperServer 5028D-TN4T - THE Ultimate Home Virtualization Lab
- Sep 13 - The Reckoning 2015 - My experience
- Sep 12 - Home Server Show Meetup 2015 - My experience and my SuperServer presentation
- Sep 10 - Download VMware vSphere 6.0 Update 1
- Sep 09 - VMworld 2015 - The video interviews
- Sep 08 - VMworld 2015 - Thank you, each and every company that sponsors VMworld Spousetivities!
- Sep 03 - VMworld 2015 - Video of my visit with Veeam's Rick Vanover to talk about Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE
- Sep 02 - VMworld 2015 - videos of my visits to QNAP and Synology
- Sep 01 - VMworld 2015 - My experience
- Aug 26 - Faster HTML5 future for VMware vSphere Web Client? ESXi Embedded Host Client Fling flies! (30 second install instructions)
- Aug 26 - VMware Workstation 12 and Player 12 released with full Windows 10 support
- Aug 26 - Blogging and presenting at VMworld 2015 San Francisco, many chances to meet you!
- Aug 24 - Easily keep Windows 10 from sharing those big Windows Updates with PCs that aren't in your home
- Aug 19 - Detailed assembly and configuration instructions for Supermicro SuperServer Workstation Windows 10 Pro bundle
- Aug 16 - The modern HTML5 way to test internet speeds, dslreports.com/speedtest
- Aug 15 - The Reckoning 2015 - TinkerTry will be there!
- Aug 14 - Close look at the Floureon LCD Display Power Meter
- Aug 12 - AOMEI Backupper Professional sector-by-sector cloning of a failing SSD
- Aug 07 - Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE 1.1 fully supports Windows 10, and restores to smaller SSDs
- Aug 01 - TinkerTry Supermicro SuperServer Workstation bundle now available - Windows 10 with triple 4K GPU can run as an ESXi VM! Now available without OS/GPU too, ships from US or The Netherlands.
- Jul 29 - "The 5th Annual Home Server Show Meetup" in Indianapolis Sep 12 2015 - TinkerTry will be there!
- Jul 29 - ~~Official TinkerTry polo shirts and stickers now available.~~
- Jul 29 - How to show Windows version and build number on your desktop
- Jul 29 - Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN (VL) doesn't offer Windows 10 Pro ISO downloads
- Jul 28 - My experience with the Samsung 850 EVO 2TB SSD, and how it fits into my hybrid home lab strategy
- Jul 26 - How to create a Windows 10 (Build 10240) bootable USB drive by making your own clean install ISO today
- Jul 24 - How to configure VCSA timeout settings so your vSphere Web Client doesn't log off after default 2 hours of inactivity
- Jul 23 - How to locate your triple monitor (up to 2K) PC 20 feet away for less noise and more joy
- Jul 21 - VMworld 2015, hands-off labs? All hands-on labs completely full in under 23 hours.
- Jul 21 - VMworld 2015 Schedule Builder is now available, featuring my first VMworld presentation, a live VVol demo!
- Jul 19 - My ecobee3 HomeKit WiFi thermostat with remote motion and temperature sensors makes cents for my home
- Jul 15 - What fits in any home virtualization lab, has 8 Xeon cores, 6 drives, 128 GB memory, and 3 4K outputs from a Windows 10 VM? Your new Supermicro SuperServer Workstation!
- Jul 15 - Virtualization Technology User Group Summer Slam 2015 - learning, lobster, and fun
- Jul 13 - How to safely patch your vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 (VCSA)
- Jul 11 - Easier way - Enabling EVC on a cluster when vCenter Server is running in a virtual machine
- Jul 09 - NAKIVO Backup & Replication 5.7 fully supports vSphere 6, vSAN, and VVol, an easy choice for home labs
- Jul 02 - Deep dive inside video of the Supermicro SuperServer 5028D-TN4T including component installation
- Jul 01 - Supermicro SuperServer 5028D-TN4T Photo Gallery
- Jul 01 - Installing Windows 10 on the Supermicro SuperServer 5028D-TN4T
- Jun 30 - Intel Xeon D-1540 SoC 10GbE X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T VIB for ESXi 6.0 support!
- Jun 29 - Supermicro SuperServer 5028D-TN4T accessories and aspirations
- Jun 27 - TinkerTry's .htaccess file for no www, no trailing slashes, and all https
- Jun 26 - Supermicro SuperServer 5028D-TN4T first impressions
- Jun 25 - TinkerTry's Xeon D-1540 fueled ESXi 6.0 home lab build begins LIVE!
- Jun 23 - Supermicro SuperServer mini-tower ordered with 64GB of memory for $1900, the ultimate home virtualization lab?
- Jun 19 - My experience at the Boston VMUG USERCON June 18 2015
- Jun 11 - How to securely erase hard drives (HDDs) and solid state drives (SSDs)
- Jun 10 - How to update your ESXi 6.0 host the easy way
- Jun 10 - Using vSphere Web Client to clean up a VMFS datastore that was temporarily extended across 2 drives
- Jun 10 - Get those tiny USB flash drives labeled quickly and effectively for about a penny
- Jun 08 - My Lenovo ThinkPad running Windows 8.1 wouldn't go to sleep, here's how I fixed it
- Jun 05 - TinkerTry.com will be at VMworld 2015, see you there?
- Jun 04 - How to find and apply your VMUG Advantage EVALExperience 365 day VCSA and ESXi 6.0 license keys
- Jun 03 - My VCP5-DCV is expiring in 30 days, time to study for my VCP6-DCV?
- Jun 02 - Is USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 likely to be in your future virtualization home lab?
- Jun 01 - TinkerTry's Fourth Birthday, June 1, 2015
- May 31 - Coming up next for June 2015, stay tuned!
- May 20 - TinkerTry at Connecticut VMUG USERCON doing a live virtualization lab demo
- May 20 - Help shape VMworld 2015 by casting your votes for presentation ideas by May 26th (or May 27th!)
- May 13 - Announcing THE video "How to build your awesome virtualization home lab with VMware vSphere 6.0 (ESXi & VCSA)"
- May 05 - Veeam Backup & Replication 8.0 Update 2 is now vSphere 6 compatible, and Veeam FastSCP for Microsoft Azure is released
- May 04 - Elon Musk's Powerwall, time-shifting the energy from that handy fusion reactor in the sky
- May 01 - Turning on Lenovo BIOS Hard Drive Password can cause Windows 8.1 DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD
- Apr 25 - Featured on "Home Gadget Geeks" Episode #211 "TinkertryIT@Home Founder Paul Braren on VMware 6 and Virtualization Options – HGG211"
- Apr 22 - NVMe uses PCI Express to finally unleash the true power of NAND flash memory
- Apr 16 - Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE works well with Windows 10 (beta) already, here's how
- Apr 14 - Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE has been released, extensive testing going well
- Apr 13 - Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE release is in April 2015
- Apr 04 - Intel 750 Series SSDs combine PCIe with NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express), blowing SATA speeds away
- Apr 04 - Hydra Multi OS Gaming Console and Controller
- Apr 04 - Mastering VMware vSphere 6
- Mar 27 - How to download Windows 10 Technical Preview ISO Build 10162 quickly and easily
- Mar 19 - NAKIVO Backup & Replication 5.5 released, NFR available to VCP and vExperts through Mar 31 2015
- Mar 17 - VMware vSphere 6.0 lets you to use vSphere Client to log into both ESXi and vCenter
- Mar 15 - How to build your awesome virtualization home lab with VMware vSphere 6.0 (ESXi & VCSA)
- Mar 12 - VMware vSphere 6.0 is now generally available, here’s how to download it fast
- Mar 12 - VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6] [257305] is available for sign-up, 5 Day Classroom, Live Online, or vFlex-ILT
- Mar 12 - VMware vSphere 6.0 Documentation Center and Release Notes are now online, read all about it!
- Mar 11 - RVTools 3.6 works with VMware vSphere 6.0
- Mar 10 - Apple and home labs - Because you know it's all about that USB-C, 'Bout that USB-C, no Lightning
- Mar 09 - Intel Xeon D-1500 crams incredible virtualization lab specs into tiny mITX size, codename Broadwell-DE
- Mar 08 - VMware VCSA 6.0 has a new Direct Console User Interface, and the web UI through port 5480 is gone
- Mar 07 - Little secret those new to virtualization often miss - ESXi 6.0 continues to be mostly headless, just as it was for all prior VMware hypervisor releases
- Mar 06 - What’s New in the VMware vSphere 6.0 Platform – VMware Technical White Paper January 2015
- Mar 05 - VMware’s promise that Windows vCenter can be migrated to vCenter Server Appliance arrives with VCS to VCSA Converter
- Mar 04 - For ESXi 6.0, those ESXi 5.1 VIBs for ASMedia SATA ports and Realtek NICs still seem to be working (but unsupported)
- Mar 03 - Try OPS1E on iOS, a fast and powerful way to manage your vSphere 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, and 7.0 environments
- Mar 03 - Vote for your favorite virtualization blogs in various categories, takes about 3 minutes
- Mar 02 - LastPass keeps you from having to type administrator@vsphere.local every time you login with vSphere Web Client
- Mar 01 - Fast and secure uploads to VMware support through their web portal
- Mar 01 - TinkerTry's 31 Days of March 2015 - One vSphere 6.0 related tip published every day, until it's GA!
- Mar 01 - VMware's software defined storage, get your VVol (Virtual Volume) overview here!
- Feb 25 - Insteon Hub Pro now available for pre-order with HomeKit
- Feb 25 - Switch Lighting, the liquid cooled LED bulb company, is liquidating its assets
- Feb 22 - Monoprice 10010 highly-rated active noise cancellation headphones for under $100
- Feb 17 - If you've been reading about vSphere 6 before its release, see also "Clarifying the misinformation"
- Feb 15 - Pre-register for vSphere 6.0 to have VMware notify you when the download is available
- Feb 11 - Freshly re-minted VMware vExpert 2015
- Feb 04 - TinkerTry.com featured on VMware.com - vSphere 6.0 vExpert Blog Articles Covering What's New, Installation, VVOLS, vMotion, Web Client and much much more
- Feb 02 - Getting my mitts on the vSphere 6 bits including ESXi and VCSA, already enhancing my home lab
- Feb 02 - Sneak Preview - Build your own vSphere 6 home datacenter in about an hour
- Jan 31 - Easily add 2 USB 3.0 ports and Gigabit Ethernet to your Microsoft Surface Pro 3
- Jan 31 - Nice little USB flash drive choice for that ESXi in your home lab
- Jan 25 - How to create bootable Windows 10 USB flash drives for clean installs on legacy and UEFI PCs including Surface Pro 3
- Jan 22 - How to use Parted Magic's Secure Erase to restore performance of your home lab's abused SSDs
- Jan 22 - Think of VMUG USERCON as a VMUG meeting on steroids
- Jan 17 - If you resized your Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials NTFS computer backups drive, repair your client computer backup database
- Jan 17 - Microsoft's most common support solutions for Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials
- Jan 16 - How I landed on SiliconANGLE TV's theCUBE at VTUG Winter Warmer 2015 to talk about virtualization home labs and blogging
- Jan 15 - VMTN reincarnated! EVALExperience is to VMware Professionals what MSDN/TechNet is to Microsoft Professionals.
- Jan 14 - Get those blurry applications running clearly again under Windows 8, 8.1, 10
- Jan 14 - Here's how Mark Allison migrated from ESXi 5.5 to Hyper-V 2012 R2 Core
- Jan 07 - VMware will take the wraps off vSphere 6 on Feb 2 2015, TinkerTry will be ready!
- Jan 05 - How to change Windows 10 network location from Public to Private
- Jan 05 - VMware Tools default ‘Typical’ install is likely a better choice than ‘Complete’ for your lab’s golden image template
2014
- Dec 31 - My 6 hour visit to Germany’s Insel Föhr, that special little island where my paternal grandparents were born
- Dec 31 - Here's a taste of what's cooking for 2014!
- Dec 31 - TinkerTry Top 10 Most Popular Articles of 2013
- Dec 31 - TinkerTry Top 10 Most Popular Articles of 2014
- Dec 28 - Get the latest Windows 10 Build 9879 beta then create a bootable USB flash drive installer, avoiding multiple huge downloads
- Dec 17 - Superguide: Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE
- Dec 17 - TinkerTry IT @ home “Hangouts On Air” event Dec 22 2014, asking Rick Vanover “Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE” questions
- Dec 15 - Feature and performance comparison between Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials and Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE
- Dec 15 - How to do a Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials bare metal restore, using boot from LAN
- Dec 14 - How to set your computer to wake up for nightly Veeam Endpoint Backups
- Dec 12 - Featured on “Home: On #038 – Insteon Revisited, with Paul Braren”
- Dec 10 - First look at Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE beta, including bare-metal laptop restore. So far, so good!
- Dec 10 - Free NFR of Veeam Availability Suite v8 with Backup & Replication for VCPs, vExperts, and many other certified professionals
- Dec 05 - Microsoft left the home backup server market, is Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE about to take over?
- Dec 03 - Fan Funding tip jar now available, over at the TinkerTry YouTube Channel
- Dec 03 - Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials complaining about one of your drives? How to queue up multiple chkdsk operations for the next reboot.
- Dec 02 - VMware Workstation 11 and Player 7 released
- Nov 26 - Superguide: Home virtualization lab backup software, some special deals for VMware VCPs and vExperts
- Nov 26 - If Chrome Browser acts like you’re in another country, try clearing just the right cookie
- Nov 18 - German engineering proudly on display at Munich International Airport
- Nov 18 - My month in a German hotel with one outlet, many adapters, and a D-Link DIR-506L travel WiFi router
- Nov 17 - Insteon Hub II appears first in November 2014 Smarthome catalog
- Nov 16 - How to speed up your home's WiFi speeds by testing the best 2.4GHz and 5GHz WiFi channels
- Nov 16 - If you're using a 802.11ac WiFi device, you may want to avoid 80MHz channel width
- Nov 14 - Motorola Arris SB6183 16 Channel DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem, future-proof through 686 Mbps?
- Nov 13 - Easily see how many days it's been since Windows was powered up or rebooted
- Nov 13 - Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials says backup failed due to insufficient storage available, the fix may be chkdsk
- Nov 11 - Virtualization Lab for sale with 10GB vSAN, ships from a tiny island near Madagascar
- Nov 06 - Sturdy ProClip USA dashboard mounts for iPhone 6/7/8 Plus or iPhone X allow one handed dock-and-go
- Nov 05 - Did you know you can get to the ESXi local console UI from an SSH session?
- Nov 04 - Experiences paying for stuff with cash or credit in Europe, and with Apple Pay back in the USA
- Nov 04 - VMware Oct 2014 patch allows ESXi 5.5 server's USB 3.0 devices to work in VMs at full speed
- Oct 29 - Superguide: iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus Migration Tips
- Oct 27 - Extend VMware Workstation Technology Preview July 2014 license until VMware Workstation 11 is GA
- Oct 22 - Featured on "Home Gadget Geeks" Episode #188 "Catching Up with Paul Braren in Germany, Travel Tech in Europe"
- Oct 15 - My 1TB mSATA Samsung 840 EVO SSD read speed slowdown, no regrets, there's a fix
- Oct 02 - For big MSDN downloads like Windows Technical Preview, you may want Akamai Download Manager
- Oct 01 - Travel Tech for an American's month long trip to Germany
- Sep 17 - 5GB of data in Germany on a prepaid SIM card mailed to me in advance in the US, here's how
- Sep 15 - A simple upgrade to VMware vSphere Client 5.5 U2 regains your ability to edit hardware version 10 VMs, even without vSphere Web Client
- Sep 15 - The infrastructure behind TinkerTry.com, including the hosting and CDN providers
- Sep 11 - Verizon iPhone 5 customer upgrading to iPhone 6 Plus on Sep 12 2014, here's some useful tips
- Sep 08 - I'll be working in Germany from September 18th to October 18th, 2014
- Sep 07 - Here's a bunch of storage related stuff I learned this month, including experience with my new 1TB SSD
- Sep 04 - vSphere 6 features previewed at VMworld 2014, including much better vSphere Web Client performance
- Aug 27 - Upgrading from Chrome 32 bit to Chrome 64 bit halves the time it takes to restart a 20 tab browsing session
- Aug 26 - VMware NVIDIA and Google promise fluid remote experience with any Windows application on Chromebooks
- Aug 25 - Highlights of VMworld 2014, for those not able to be there
- Aug 19 - NVIDIA 560 Ti to 750 Ti GPU upgrade makes Core i7 Z68 system quieter, faster, cooler, using half the power
- Aug 17 - All those Paul Braren (tinkererguy) Google +1's
- Aug 13 - Productive week in the home lab, having a fast home server really helps
- Aug 11 - Intel's Haswell-E X99S and Atom can handle 64GB of memory, affordability TBD
- Aug 11 - VMware HOL Online, Labs, Flings, and Nee
- Aug 04 - Google Chrome going 64 bit breaks vSphere 5.x Web Client Integration Plug-In
- Aug 04 - Problems downloading VMware vSphere VMware vCenter Server 5.5 Update 1c Appliance
- Jul 30 - Nixeus VUE27D review, efficient 2nd-gen 2560x1440 IPS LED DisplayPort monitor improves on the original VUE
- Jul 21 - Presenting at New York City VMUG July 24 2014, “Insecure about using public WiFi? Connect to your home’s OpenVPN appliance, for free.”
- Jul 11 - How to disable debug mode in VMware Workstation Technology Preview 2014 for a serious speed boost
- Jul 07 - How to fix Chrome as-you-type spell checking
- Jul 06 - How to migrate a remote PC from LogMeIn to TeamViewer Collaborative Remote Control
- Jul 05 - Featured on "Home Gadget Geeks" Episode #174 "Haswell Issues with 32GB of RAM, VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5, OpenVPN, Azure Services"
- Jul 05 - Insecure about using public WiFi? Connect to your home's OpenVPN appliance, for free.
- Jul 02 - Speed up Lotus Notes 8.5.3 or IBM Notes 9 Social Edition under Windows 7/8/8.1 or Linux
- Jul 02 - VMware vSphere 6 Beta Program is now open to the public!
- Jun 23 - Logitech M705 and M560 mice offer smooth scrolling and excellent wireless performance
- Jun 18 - A bunch of stuff broke this month, learned a lot fixing it all
- Jun 11 - Easy install Amazon CloudFront CDN with WordPress Plugin W3 Total Cache
- Jun 11 - How to fix "Backup is not set up for this computer" error in Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials
- Jun 11 - Superguide: Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials
- Jun 11 - The end of efforts to bring back VMTN?
- Jun 07 - Haswell Z97 limited to 32GB memory max, an unfortunate reality for virtualization enthusiasts
- Jun 04 - Donate twice as much blood, half as often, with a smaller needle
- Jun 01 - TinkerTry's Third Birthday, June 1, 2014
- May 26 - Superguide: Efficient hardware for your home network
- May 22 - Password-less secure login with SQRL, disk recovery with SpinRite, and data obliteration with Beyond Recall
- May 14 - Connecticut VMUG User Conference May 13 2014 lures IT Pros with home virtualization lab give aways
- May 10 - Presented at Security BSides Boston on May 10 2014, "Insecure about using public WiFi? Connect to your home's OpenVPN appliance, for free."
- May 06 - For any browser running on Windows, Ctrl+F5 forces reload from network, not cache
- May 04 - Display your iOS and Android devices on Windows, using Reflector and Droid @ Screen
- May 03 - VMware ESXi 5.5 Update 1 Driver Rollup 2 Released Apr 24 2014
- May 02 - On blogVault for a year, still happy with its daily backups of TinkerTry.com
- Apr 30 - Quick look at tiny and efficient D-Link Gigabit Switches
- Apr 29 - CalAlarm for iPhone and iPad, finally an app that repeats an alert until I respond
- Apr 23 - CrowdStrike Heartbleed Scanner finds my vulnerable VMware ESXi 5.5 U1 host, I patch, then rescan
- Apr 22 - The Virtualization Technology Users Group Spring Ahead April 24 2014
- Apr 19 - Download ESXi 5.5 Update 1 and the other vSphere Update 1a pieces to get your home lab started
- Apr 16 - As webmaster, how I cleaned up after Heartbleed, including SSL certificate handling
- Apr 10 - Freshly minted VMware vExpert
- Apr 07 - How to resolve "This virtual machine appears to be in use" error in VMware Workstation
- Apr 04 - Featured on “The Home Tech Podcast” Episode #161 “Using a Chrome Extension for Hangouts, Ditching VoIP with Latency and Climbing Stairs"
- Mar 28 - Chose the Insteon Hub in 2012, now they've announced Nest integration for 2014
- Mar 26 - Years of trying to make my LSI 9265-8i RAID controller play nice with ESXi
- Mar 25 - NVIDIA and IBM create a GPU Interconnect called NVLink that's faster than PCI Express 3.0
- Mar 17 - Yeah, your VCP certification will be expiring
- Mar 16 - First look at VMware ESXi 5.5 Update 1, with added drivers for Realtek NIC, ASMedia SATA ports, and LSI RAID
- Mar 13 - My VMware's "You either are not entitled or do not have permissions to download this product." error, and what to do about it.
- Mar 12 - Download ESXi 5.5 Update 1 and the other vSphere pieces to get your home lab started
- Mar 05 - vExpert 2014 applications are open, folks now get admitted on a quarterly basis!
- Feb 24 - Why I gave up on Ooma VOIP, and went back to cable phone service
- Feb 23 - Linksys EA6900 802.11ac WiFi Router security best practices
- Feb 22 - Security Now Episode 442 is particularly interesting
- Feb 16 - Recent little technical victories, but thin ice ahead...
- Feb 13 - Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2 update rollup: February 2014, share your experiences!
- Feb 13 - Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials - Repair the Backup Database
- Feb 12 - Preallocating storage is a good idea for VMs with encrypted virtual drives, thin provisioning is not
- Feb 02 - How to create a vSphere Web Client shortcut, using Chrome Canary to fly
- Jan 29 - Featured on “The Home Server Show” Episode #249
- Jan 22 - The Virtualization Technology User Group - 8th Annual Winter Warmer 2014 at Gillette Stadium, with >1,000 IT Pros!
- Jan 07 - Superguide: CyberPower PFCLCD UPS Mini Towers protect your home's computers and entertainment
- Jan 06 - Featured on “The Home Server Show” BYOB Episode #138
- Jan 05 - Superguide: Home virtualization server enthusiasts' colorful variety of ESXi whiteboxes
- Jan 03 - Relieve slow drive bottlenecks by doing selective VMware Storage vMotion of a running VM's drive(s)
- Jan 02 - Resolve old VM's 2TB drive size limitation with Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials "Move the folder"
- Jan 01 - Super easy viewing of your ESXi log files from a mobile browser
2013
- Dec 31 - Enable Disk Performance Counters in Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials Task Manager
- Dec 27 - Enjoy tangle-free listening to music and podcasts instead of your mower, protecting your hearing for just 60 dollars
- Dec 27 - VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.5.0b released
- Dec 23 - Fix the issue where you upgrade to Windows 8.1 then your Photo Stream stops updating
- Dec 22 - Superguide: Home Theater Combo - Samsung TV, TiVo Roamio, and Vizio Soundbar
- Dec 16 - Use ESXi-Customizer GUI to inject multiple driver VIBs into your ESXi installer ISO
- Dec 12 - Using your home network's ESXi or Hyper-V OpenVPN appliance to safely use public WiFi
- Dec 11 - How to make Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials client connector install behave just like Windows Home Server
- Dec 06 - Featured on "The Home Tech Podcast" Episode #146 "IBM Watson APIs, Cable Modems, Routers, Google Takeout, Please Upgrade Your XP Box and USB 3.0 with Anker"
- Dec 05 - A careful look at the No-Spill 5 Gallon Gas Can, for your electronics-friendly generator
- Dec 04 - Drive accidentally removed from RAID, resolve the PD Missing error without data loss using LSI WebBIOS
- Dec 04 - How to flash the firmware of your LSI RAID controller, using MegaCLI on a DOS boot USB drive
- Nov 27 - One simple way to get four additional network connections on desktops, laptops, and even VMs
- Nov 27 - Reminiscing with Alfred Poor about Microsoft Flight Simulator, for aNewDomain
- Nov 26 - How to change Windows 8.1 network location from Public to Private
- Nov 23 - Replacing your 60 watt bulb with the Cree TW Series LED, is it a bright idea?
- Nov 20 - Quick look at the TiVo Slide Pro Remote
- Nov 19 - GeekBeat.TV meetup in Boston with Cali Lewis and John P., November 2013
- Nov 17 - Holiday Guide 2013, a variety of sensible solutions for your household tech needs
- Nov 13 - Amazon shipping and return policies can be pretty amazing, but...
- Nov 11 - Featured on “The Home Server Show” BYOB Episode #134
- Nov 04 - Windows Server 2012 Essentials Update Rollup 3 has arrived, with DNS fixes
- Nov 03 - VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.5.0a released
- Oct 29 - TiVo iOS App can be convinced to stream live TV over cellular in 2013, here's how
- Oct 25 - Firsthand experience with VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.5
- Oct 19 - The Virtualization Technology Users Group Fall Forward 2013
- Oct 17 - Using ESXi 5.5 to create "Golden Master" Windows 8.1 template VM with ease-of-use tweaks for your lab
- Oct 15 - How to prevent microwave cooking from slowing down your entire home's WiFi, using 802.11n 5GHz WiFi
- Oct 14 - Firsthand experience with TiVo Roamio Plus that I easily upgraded to 3TB
- Oct 13 - Yoga 13 and Windows 8.1 do get along nicely with little a bit of encouragement
- Oct 12 - Windows To Go - Taking it all with you
- Oct 08 - Use testmy.net to track intermittent internet issues in your neighborhood
- Oct 07 - Firsthand experience with the Motorola SURFboard SB6141 DOCIS 3.0 Cable Modem
- Oct 05 - Firsthand experience with ASUS RT-AC68U, Netgear R7000, and Linksys EA6900 802.11ac WiFi routers
- Oct 02 - What does long list of consumer devices deprecated and unsupported in ESXi 5.5 mean?
- Sep 30 - Build your own VMware vSphere 5.5 Datacenter with ESXi and VCSA
- Sep 30 - VMware VMDirectPath and Intel VT-d explained in 3 minutes
- Sep 26 - vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 in a home lab, without SSO errors
- Sep 25 - Best parts of VMware's ESXi 5.5 free hypervisor rely on vCenter, which isn't free. Uh oh?
- Sep 24 - Install ESXi 5.5 with Realtek 8111/8168 NIC
- Sep 24 - Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I350T2 Dual port, for ESXi 5.5 home lab
- Sep 24 - TP-LINK Gigabit PCI Express Network Adapter TG-3468, for ESXi 5.5 home lab
- Sep 22 - Download all the VMware vSphere 5.5 pieces to get your home lab started
- Sep 20 - Download VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5 Hypervisor
- Sep 18 - BrontaStor, a brawny little beast for home server enthusiasts?
- Sep 16 - "The 3rd Annual Home Server Show Meetup" in Indianapolis Sep 21 2013 - TinkerTry'll be there!
- Sep 11 - Rufus quickly creates a UEFI bootable USB 3.0 flash drive for Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 installation
- Sep 10 - First 24 hours with Windows 8.1 on W520 laptop (mostly) smooth sailing!
- Sep 10 - Rufus lets you quickly and easily reformat an ESXi USB flash drive back to full capacity
- Sep 10 - Rufus takes seconds to create a bootable USB flash drive for ESXi installation
- Sep 09 - VMware Workstation 10 / Player 6 run Windows 8.1 just fine, here’s how to make the VM even friendlier
- Sep 07 - Wow, is that a 62TB drive in my home lab?
- Sep 04 - VMware Workstation 10 is feature rich, but you might be fine with the free VMware Player 6 Plus
- Sep 03 - Build your own VMware vSphere Datacenter in under an hour with the free ESXi 5.5 hypervisor
- Sep 02 - Which hypervisor for your home lab, VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Linux KVM, or Citrix XenServer?
- Aug 29 - Featured on “The Home Tech Podcast” Episode #133 "Window To Go with Windows 8 Enterprise, Remote Backup with WS 2012 R2 Essentials, What’s New with VMware ESXi 5.5, Safe Podcast Listening"
- Aug 29 - VMware vSphere Server Appliance 5.5 SSO doesn't like lack of proper DNS in a home lab, here's a workaround
- Aug 28 - Not able to attend VMworld 2013? Join the TinkerTry "first look at ESXi 5.5" event instead, LIVE Aug 29 2013 7pm-8pm EDT
- Aug 28 - VMware ESXi 5.5 Free Hypervisor breaks past 32GB RAM restriction
- Aug 27 - First look at VMware ESXi 5.5 installation on a flash drive, followed by the vSphere client install
- Aug 26 - VMware vSphere 5.5 announced, with general availability the week of September 9 2013 likely
- Aug 24 - Ivy Bridge-E platform announcement on September 11 2013 will include SSD overclocking, here’s why
- Aug 24 - Superguide: Timeline of USB, SATA, and Thunderbolt speeds
- Aug 24 - Windows Server 2012 Essentials UR3 coming soon, with the DNS fix I requested?
- Aug 21 - Insteon Smoke Bridge 2982-222
- Aug 20 - Insteon Leak Sensor 2852-222
- Aug 20 - Very handy iPhone 5 charging cradle that's bumper case compatible
- Aug 13 - Got to hear "Virtualization Security for the IT Guy/Gal" by Mike Foley at my local VMUG today
- Aug 03 - "VMware vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1b and modules" and "VMware vCenter Server 5.1.0 Update 1b Appliance" released
- Aug 02 - Took a sleek Cirrus SR22 plane out for a half hour flight adventure over Connecticut today, awesome!
- Aug 01 - USB 3.1, Flash in DIMM slots, NGFF and Thunderbolt 2 are promising for virtualization at home
- Aug 01 - Virtualization Technology User Group Summer Slam 2013 in Brunswick Maine
- Jul 31 - Enjoying the great outdoors, July 2013
- Jul 23 - Looking forward to breaking past 550MB/sec SATA3 SSDs, using PCIe, PCI NGFF (M.2), and software caching
- Jul 16 - Summer virtualization travels to Maine
- Jul 03 - If you're interested in an audio summary of NAS solutions, check out This Week in Computer Hardware 224
- Jul 01 - With the recent suspension of Microsoft TechNet, is the return of VMware VMTN less likely?
- Jun 28 - Featured on “The Home Tech Podcast” Episode #124 "A LIVE First Look at Windows 8.1 Preview"
- Jun 26 - Windows 8.1 Preview runs fine on ESXi 5.1 Update 1 Build 1065491
- Jun 24 - TinkerTry featured on BYOB Episode 125 "Home Automation"
- Jun 23 - Superguide: Insteon Home Automation
- Jun 20 - blogVault, for scheduled daily offsite backups, and to restore, download, or migrate your WordPress site
- Jun 20 - Featured on “The Home Tech Podcast” Episode #123 "We are talking Home Servers!"
- Jun 16 - Update Rollup 2 for Windows Server 2012 Essentials is available, testing on my busy server underway
- Jun 15 - Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials Preview The Essentials Experience
- Jun 14 - My home's First Alert ONELINK system for smoke and carbon monoxide detection includes voiced warnings, with optional smartphone alerts
- Jun 11 - 2013 Apple Mac Pro as a virtualization platform? Think about it...
- Jun 11 - How to encrypt Windows 8 Professional Search index files using built-in Encrypted File System
- Jun 07 - Safer way to charge Apple Lightning devices quickly, even at a longer distance from your wall outlet
- Jun 05 - Superguide: Windows Server 2012 Essentials
- Jun 01 - TinkerTry's Second Birthday, June 1, 2013
- May 30 - SeeEye2Eye first look, a webcam eye contact device for Google+ Hangouts?
- May 29 - Scrogged your Chrome bookmarks? Here's how to restore them, from your last backup.
- May 29 - Windows Server 2012 Essentials handles those scheduled nightly backups of sleeping computers quite nicely, here's how.
- May 29 - Featured on “The Home Tech Podcast” Episode #119 "The first one about Virtualization"
- May 18 - Presented at Security BSides Boston on May 18 2013, "Build Your Own VMWare ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V lab at Home, Using Affordable and Efficient Hardware"
- May 17 - Superguide: VMware vSphere
- May 16 - If you used Microsoft IntelliPoint drivers, and you upgraded from Windows 7 to 8 but have Bluetooth mouse issues, here's a fix
- May 06 - Presented at Connecticut VMUG User Conference on May 14 2013, "Virtualization at home can be practical, affordable, and available, 24x7."
- May 05 - Constantly high disk I/O with Windows Server 2012 Essentials, here's one possible reason, and a fix
- May 04 - Superguide: Antivirus Solutions for the Microsoft Windows Home Server Family
- May 04 - Featured on “The Home Tech Podcast” Episode #115 "Laptops #2"
- May 02 - Superguide: Lenovo ThinkPad USB 3.0 Dock, to affordably add 2 external monitors to Windows/Mac/Linux
- May 01 - IDF 2013 Presentation: Intel Next Generation Microarchitecture Code Name Haswell
- Apr 24 - Should I try to upgrade my Intel Core i7 2600 (Sandybridge) past 32GB of RAM for juggling a lot of VMs, or plan to rebuild on Core i7 4770 (Haswell)?
- Apr 17 - Use Windows Server 2012 Essentials Dashboard to quickly verify backups
- Apr 10 - Is the new Cree LED bulb a good enough 60 watt replacement?
- Apr 10 - VMware Purple Screens of Death can spring up from improper eSATA cabling
- Apr 06 - Thought about attending virtualization user groups? Here's a virtual tour of some of my recent positive experiences.
- Apr 03 - vTagion.com "Virtualization is contagious" - a very new blog, already many good articles
- Mar 31 - Featured on "The Home Tech Podcast" Episode #110 "Travel Tech: What Do You Take on the Road?"
- Mar 28 - YouTube Channel associated with the wrong Google version of yourself? Here's a fix!
- Mar 27 - Using 'Windows Update Notifier' to automatically download and install Windows 8 Defender definition updates more frequently
- Mar 21 - Slow Windows 8 Modern UI app startup times resolved!
- Mar 13 - How to install Microsoft Forefront Client Security Antivirus on Windows Server 2012 Essentials
- Mar 02 - Windows Server 2012 Essentials - Connector installation
- Feb 26 - Update Rollup 1 for Windows Server 2012 Essentials is available, testing on my busy server underway
- Feb 23 - Featured on "The Home Tech Podcast" Episode #106
- Feb 19 - What I've been up to, and what's coming up next...
- Feb 12 - Windows Task Manager auto-started as an effective CPU monitor in your system tray
- Feb 10 - Use powercfg to arm a device to wake your Windows PC up, demonstrated by adding Wake-on-LAN to a WiFi-only Lenovo Yoga 13
- Feb 08 - Deep snow may cause some challenges here in Connecticut into this weekend, and beyond…
- Feb 05 - My home network never had the UPnP vulnerability, how to test your home's router
- Feb 03 - How to create an "Inbox All" button to easily see ALL of your inboxes in one handy view in Microsoft Outlook 2010/2013/2016/2019/Office 365
- Jan 31 - LSI 9265-8i 5.5 has arrived, time to update to MegaRAID 12.10.03.01, firmware 3.230.05-2100, and SMIS 00.34.V0.01, right from your VM!
- Jan 24 - WordPress Permalinks suddenly not working, here's one possible fix
- Jan 23 - Windows 8 Tip for easily handling an accidental drag-and-drop of an application behind the Taskbar
- Jan 22 - macZilla Core i5 Mac mini gets an SSD drive upgrade, the operation was a success
- Jan 15 - TinkerTry.com 2.0
- Jan 09 - Come see live video from CES 2013, courtesy of Dave McCabe of homeservershow.com and surfacegeeks.net, and Jim Collison of theaverageguy.tv
- Jan 07 - Skype versus Google+ Hangout video quality testing, using Verizon 3G and 4G LTE
- Jan 06 - LSI 9265-8i CacheCade Pro 2.0 is finally using my Samsung 830 256GB SSD for RAID5 read and write caching, boosting performance
- Jan 06 - VMware Converter 5.0.1 can be installed on Windows 8, makes resizing a VM's C: drive straight-forward
- Jan 03 - Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless Gaming Controllers work well with Windows 8 built-in drivers
- Jan 02 - TinkerTry featured on “The Home Server Show” BYOB Episode #107
2012
- Dec 30 - MaxPowerLauncher, the simple way to temporarily boost your Windows Power Plan to Max, just for particularly power hungry applications
- Dec 23 - Fun with Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13
- Dec 22 - Insteon Hub first impressions, easier home automation, configured right from your smartphone
- Dec 21 - If your 2560x1440 monitor needs a cable longer than 6', you may want to go with newer DisplayPort 1.2 4K capable cabling?
- Dec 20 - How to workaround "The attempted operation cannot be performed in the current state (Powered on)." error
- Dec 19 - Using FaceTime to help somebody set up a new iPhone or iPad remotely
- Dec 12 - Holiday Guide 2012, a variety of sensible solutions for your household tech needs
- Dec 09 - How to enjoy Windows 8 on your Lenovo ThinkPad W520 laptop, with 3 external monitors, and an external keyboard and mouse
- Dec 08 - How to use your laptop’s combination USB/eSATA port to temporarily run another operating system
- Dec 06 - How to use VMs for self-training, and for firmware flash automation
- Nov 28 - How to upgrade free Hypervisor ESXi 5.0 to 5.1, the easier way
- Nov 27 - How to use a CyberPower UPS solution for proper automated shutdown of your VMware ESXi lab during power outages, including all VMs
- Nov 19 - How to install and configure VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) 5.1
- Nov 19 - Which vSphere client should I use and when? Here's an informal, head-to-head speed test.
- Nov 16 - How to update your vCenter Server Appliance, going from 5.1, to 5.1.0a or 5.1.0b, is easy
- Nov 14 - How to workaround the "The operation is not allowed in the current connection state of the host." error on vSphere 5.1 thru 6.5 Update 1
- Nov 12 - Brushes with fame, how I (barely) missed Steven Sinofsky, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs visits to a wired, well-connected Cornell University
- Nov 08 - vGPU for graphics acceleration in VMs
- Nov 07 - How to get those large iTunes iOS device backups off your C drive
- Oct 31 - How to seamlessly replace a cable modem with cellular during outages
- Oct 30 - Featured on "The Home Tech Podcast" Episode #93
- Oct 30 - Upgrading ESXi 5.1 and vSphere 5.1 to 5.1.0a
- Oct 28 - How to enable WiFi Personal Hotspot or USB Tethering on an iPhone, easily sharing your Internet with nearby devices
- Oct 26 - Tornadoes, hurricanes, and snowstorms motivated me to get a generator, here's a look at my ETQ TG72K12 with 8250 Watts, 14 HP, low THD, and clean sine waves
- Oct 19 - "The 2nd Annual Home Server Show Meetup" in Indianapolis Indiana October 20th 2012
- Oct 15 - Apple Lightning to 30-pin Adapter compatibility with existing home and auto accessories
- Oct 15 - LSI 9265-8i 5.1 October 8, 2012 Firmware 1881 for LSI CacheCade and non-CacheCade RAID controllers has arrived
- Oct 09 - Windows Server 2012 Essentials RTM now available on TechNet and MSDN, or free evaluation
- Oct 03 - Moving iPhone 4 from AT&T to iPhone 5 on Verizon? Have I got the article for you!
- Oct 01 - ESXi 5.1 host with LSI 92xx RAID adapter can run a VM with fully functional MegaRAID Storage Manager UI, here's how
- Sep 26 - ESXi 5.1 has USB 3.0 support, sort of...
- Sep 24 - VMware ESXi 5.1 can run Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 VMs, nice!
- Sep 22 - Using ESXi 5.1 to create "Golden Master" Windows 8 templates for deploying VMs, with ease-of-use tweaks for your lab
- Sep 22 - FingerPrint 2.1 runs nicely on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, great way to allow iOS printing on your home or corporate network
- Sep 16 - I'm attending "The 2nd Annual Home Server Show Meetup" in Indianapolis Oct 20th, come join us!
- Sep 15 - How to make ESXi 5.1 see the health of an LSI 9265-8i RAID controller and array (seems to work with all 92xx controllers)
- Sep 11 - Downloads of "VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 5.1" and "VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.1" now available
- Sep 10 - Windows Server 2012 Essentials remote client loses its Internet connection, here's your DNS-related fix
- Sep 07 - Using Task Manager and Resource Monitor to figure out what's going behind the scenes in Windows Server 2012 / Windows 8
- Sep 07 - VMware using SSDs for VM transparent caching and VM-aware caching?
- Sep 05 - How to create a vSphere Web Client Google Chrome Application Shortcut, looks better and works faster
- Sep 05 - Microsoft Windows Server 2012 runs fine on VMware ESXi 5.1
- Aug 28 - VMware vSphere 5.1 has finally been announced, with general availability on September 11
- Aug 27 - How to install and configure vCenter Server Appliance 5.1 on ESXi 5.1, the easiest way to enable the good stuff for free, like cloning VM templates and the magic of vMotion
- Aug 27 - How to install ESXi 5.1 on a flash drive then configure and run VMs, like Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012
- Aug 24 - Close look at my Nixeus NX-VUE27 2560×1440 27″ monitor
- Aug 23 - ASRock Z77 Extreme4-M Motherboard works nicely with ESXi 5.0
- Aug 23 - VMware Workstation 9 released August 23 2012, but you might be fine with the free version, VMware Player 5
- Aug 23 - VMworld 2012: my schedule
- Aug 22 - Microsoft announces that Windows Server 2012 Essentials is due for release by end of 2012, but Release Candidate available now
- Aug 22 - VMware Kills vRAM Licensing, returning to CPU-based licensing
- Aug 21 - How MSDN members that only have access to Windows 8 VL (Volume License) editions can activate their Retail Keys instead
- Aug 18 - Play VOB files in Windows 8 easily, free, simple workarounds until Windows Media Center is available
- Aug 16 - Update to SSD caching of desktops, laptops, and VMware/Hyper-V datastores
- Aug 15 - Update Rollup 3 for Windows Home Server 2011 and Windows Storage Server R2 Essentials Released August 14 2012
- Aug 15 - Windows 8 (RTM) runs fine on ESXi 5.0 Update 1 Build 623860, and Build 768111
- Aug 14 - Your SSD drive will need >27GB free space on C: to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 8, here's some clean-up tips
- Aug 14 - USB 3.0 thumb drive speeds vary widely, here's a quick and easy way to test them
- Aug 05 - Once ESXi 5.1 is released, I'll do another "Build your own VMware vSphere ESXi 5 Datacenter, starting with one PC"
- Aug 02 - Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2012 To Manufacturing, does that include Essentials?
- Aug 02 - Reasons backups are so much faster in Windows Server 2012 Essentials
- Jul 28 - In addition to 3 monitors, and an iPad as a 4th monitor, here's what I use on my desk
- Jul 28 - Shared-Nothing Live Migration arriving with vSphere 5.1, to be unveiled at VMworld 2012 the week of August 26th
- Jul 22 - Windows Server 2012 Essentials Unattended Installation (using unattended.xml)
- Jul 21 - How to remove Active Directory Domain from Windows Server 2012 Essentials (bad idea), attempt to restore the simplicity of Workgroup (failed)
- Jul 18 - A family visit to the new Microsoft Store in Danbury, Connecticut
- Jul 18 - Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials works fine with PCs in the domain or in a workgroup
- Jul 17 - Close look at my QNIX QX2700 LED 2560x1440 27" monitor
- Jul 17 - $75 to protect your hearing while listening to podcasts (this one's for you, fellow geek-mowers!)
- Jul 16 - Google Hangout on Air: Windows Server 2012 Essentials Beta Deeper Dive (Domains, Backup speeds, Storage Spaces)
- Jul 15 - When your home's Internet goes down, here's a cellular work-around
- Jul 15 - VMware vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1a Release Notes
- Jul 13 - vSphere Hypervisor Auto Start Bug Fixed, home lab builders rejoice!
- Jul 12 - Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials backups and bare-metal restores are faster than WHS2011 or WHSv1
- Jul 11 - Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials runs fine on ESXi 5.0 Update 1
- Jul 07 - FingerPrint: easily print from your iPhone or iPad to network printers and USB photo printers, even if they’re not AirPrint compatible, version 2 upgrade now available
- Jul 07 - Featured on "Rich’s Random Podcast Generator" Episode #17
- Jul 06 - If you ever help friends and family with pre-load junk, here's Mark Russinovich's tale of a broken Security Essentials install, and the promise of Microsoft Signature
- Jul 06 - Have an issue with your ThinkPad not waking up from sleep properly, try turning off passwords on all disks in BIOS, including SSDs
- Jul 05 - Windows Server 2012 Essentials replaces Windows Home Server 2012? Not really...
- Jul 02 - VMworld 2012 San Francisco August 26th-30th, I'll be there for you!
- Jun 27 - Display driver stopped responding and has recovered, here's a simple fix that worked on Windows 7 gaming system with NVIDIA 560 Ti, and Windows 8 ThinkPad W520 with NVIDIA 1000M
- Jun 27 - Samsung 830 Series MZ-7PC256B/WW 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC SSD for $189.99 (free shipping) deal good until Th Jun 28 11:59pm PT
- Jun 27 - The Windows Server 2012 Community Roadshow Presentation
- Jun 26 - My Linksys/Cisco E4200 v1 router flaked out every time I used iPad AirPlay Mirroring with an Apple TV, here's a fix
- Jun 25 - Failing full client restore (CD or USB key), RestoreCDInit.exe - Application Error, 0xc0000025 at location 0xff43b477
- Jun 17 - The Tech Behind Father's Day @ Microsoft NERD
- Jun 13 - Featured on “The Home Tech Podcast" Episode #76
- Jun 08 - Google Hangout from 36,000 feet! Tales of travel tech, streaming, and online gaming (venturing to Anaheim California & Cambridge Massachusetts this month)
- Jun 03 - Hyper-V Server 2012 Release Candidate (x64) runs fine on ESXi 5.0 Update 1, but...
- Jun 03 - Lenovo ThinkPad USB 3.0 Dock 0A33970: one USB 3.0 cable from your laptop gives you 5 USB 3.0, 1 Gigabit, and 2 DVI outputs
- Jun 03 - Problems with ESXi 5.0 Update 1 Auto Start?
- Jun 02 - Windows 8 Release Preview runs fine on VMware Workstation 8.0.3 and free VMware Player 4.0.3
- Jun 01 - TinkerTry's First Birthday, June 1, 2012
- Jun 01 - Windows 8 Release Preview runs fine on ESXi 5.0 Update 1
- Jun 01 - Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate runs fine on ESXi 5.0 Update 1
- May 30 - VMworld 2012 presentation proposals include "Build Your Own VMware vSphere Home Lab Using Commodity Hardware" (cast your vote by June 8th)
- May 28 - Finally found an efficient, attractive, and affordable ceiling fixture, with 3 LED bulbs, totaling just $88
- May 22 - Featured on “Rich’s Random Podcast Generator” Episode #16
- May 21 - OCZ Vertex 4 SSD firmware 1.4 has arrived, writes speeds improved, drive speed is now even more amazing
- May 17 - ASRock Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen3 BIOS 2.10 released May 10 2012, DO NOT USE 2.X BIOS if you're staying on a Sandy Bridge CPU!
- May 15 - Is a Lenovo 0A33970 USB 3.0 "dock" the best way to add a third monitor to a workstation-class laptop, like the ThinkPad W520?
- May 10 - CacheCade Pro 2.0 with FastPath, unboxing and installing the LSI00290 onto my 9265-8i RAID controller
- May 04 - ASRock, Bryce, and fkhsr team up across continents and deliver quite the Z77 VT-d/VMDirectPath article and test matrix, thank you!
- May 03 - Playing with LSI CacheCade Pro 2.0: The OCZ Vertex 4 256GB SSD (VTX4-25SAT3-256G) (Caution!)
- May 02 - LSI CacheCade Pro 2.0 / FastPath FAQ has arrived, and so have the 30 day trial keys!
- May 01 - Coming up next for May 2012, stay tuned!
- Apr 29 - Immediate, clear broadcasting of Google+ Hangouts works, if you use a second system to attend and stream the Hangout with XSplit Broadcaster and Justin.tv
- Apr 26 - CacheCade Pro 2.0 firmware may remove your LSI RAID array's drive spin-down power savings
- Apr 22 - Things we learned doing Google+ Hangouts today, testing potential for podcasting and/or training purposes
- Apr 17 - TinkerTry.com's first Google+ Hangout, Sat. April 21st @3pm eastern
- Apr 14 - Easier way to install Hotfix KB686867 for WHS2011 Dashboard or Launchpad “Computer Monitoring Error”
- Apr 10 - Ooma Telo mini review, available new for $149.99 (unlimited long distance at about $14.27 USD per month)
- Apr 07 - LSI 9265/9266 CacheCade Pro 2.0 information
- Apr 05 - Drezilla - Allan Dresner's Core i7 X79 Home Storage and Virtualization Server, your thoughts?
- Apr 04 - How to install LSI MegaRAID Storage Manager v11.08.03.0300 on Windows 2008 R2 or Windows 7 x64 (for CacheCade Pro 2.0 Compatibility)
- Apr 03 - LSI 9265-8i firmware 23.4.1-0028 for CacheCade Pro 2.0 has arrived
- Mar 31 - 3rd generation iPad displaces aging laptop for family member who mostly just surfs and emails, how'd it go?
- Mar 29 - “macZilla” Core i5 Mac mini: does ESXi 5.0 Update 1 work?
- Mar 25 - Sandybridge Z68 versus Ivy Bridge Z77 motherboards, LSI 9265-8i versus 9266-8i RAID adapters: would I change how I'd build vZilla this year?
- Mar 19 - “macZilla” Core i5 Mac mini: more RAM + hybrid drive + SSD drive = completely successful surgery for fast Windows 7 VM that dual boots too!
- Mar 16 - vSphere 5.0 Update 1 released (ESXi 5.0 Update 1 Build 623860 and vCenter Update 1 Build 639890)
- Mar 15 - Why Windows Home Server? Personal Cloud with Bare Metal Restore and Single Instance Storage (possible broadband caps looming)
- Mar 14 - VMware Workstation Technology Preview 2012 (free VMware Player lives on)
- Mar 10 - Paul Braren's “Build Your Own VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V lab at Home, using Commodity Hardware” presentation replay from Saturday March 10th
- Mar 10 - Paul Thurrott's "Windows 8 Consumer Preview" presentation replay from Saturday March 10th
- Mar 03 - Windows Server 8 Beta Hyper-V runs fine on ESXi 5.0 Patch 02
- Mar 02 - New England Virtualization User Groups: Presenting ESXi/Hyper-V on vZilla and attending Paul Thurrott's talk about Windows 8
- Feb 29 - Does Windows 8 Consumer Preview run on ESXi 5.0?
- Feb 29 - I just earned my VCP5 today!
- Feb 29 - Windows 8 Consumer Preview runs fine on ESXi 5.0 Patch 02
- Feb 29 - Windows Server 8 Beta runs fine on ESXi 5.0 Patch 02
- Feb 27 - Good look at free "VM Monitor" Windows utility by SolarWinds, works with ESXi 5.5 and 6.0
- Feb 26 - Remote Desktop Connection and vSphere Client Console can run Aero on Windows 7 VMs, hosted by ESXi 5.0
- Feb 25 - Consistent Upstream Internet: tune QoS for casting while VOIPing
- Feb 22 - How to enable remote sounds in all Windows Server 2008 versions, including Home Server 2011
- Feb 16 - Microsoft Releases Update Rollup 2 for Windows Home Server 2011, and its siblings
- Feb 16 - SSD Caching for everybody's big honkin' C drive, that'd sure be nice
- Feb 13 - 32GB of memory on the ASRock Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen3 Motherboard
- Feb 09 - Cisco Linksys E4200 Wireless Router + Motorola SB6120 Cable Modem = stable and fast internet
- Feb 07 - Apple iTV prototypes in Canada: if true, could this be a hint of an intentional strategy?
- Feb 06 - I abuse RAID arrays, and I'm not ashamed to admit it, Episode 2, Mediasonic HFR2-SU3S2
- Feb 04 - Thinking About a Local, Personal iCloud
- Feb 04 - VMTN: It was to VMware Developers & Consultants what MSDN is to Windows Developers & Consultants, and it may be coming back
- Feb 03 - FingerPrint: easily print from your iPhone or iPad to network printers and USB photo printers, even if they're not AirPrint compatible, new Windows version now installs as a service
- Feb 03 - I abuse RAID arrays, and I'm not ashamed to admit it, Episode 1, LSI 9265-8i
- Jan 30 - Juggling Storage: Dismount VMFS eSATA RAID5, remount as USB 3.0, pass through to VM, then reformat as NTFS
- Jan 27 - GPU Passthrough? (VMDirectPath/VT-d/PCI Passthru)
- Jan 24 - How to install Windows Home Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials in an ESXi Virtual Machine
- Jan 24 - Build your own VMware vSphere ESXi 5 Datacenter, starting with 1 PC
- Jan 24 - The reasoning behind vZilla's use of the LSI 9265-8i RAID Controller (hint: SSD for RAID5 read-and-write caching)
- Jan 21 - Passing a USB 3.0 card through to a VM can be tricky, especially if all 4 ports aren't recognized
- Jan 20 - What's coming up next in Windows storage, "Windows Storage Spaces" and "Resilient File System"
- Jan 18 - There's a lot I learned about attending CES, with a press badge...
- Jan 16 - Fractal Design at CES 2012: overview by Ryan Heimbuch, Technical Support Manager
- Jan 15 - CES Coverage Preview
- Jan 15 - HighPoint at CES 2012: New USB 3.0 bundles shown by May Hwang, Director of Product Marketing
- Jan 15 - Microsoft Photosynth, next best thing to being at CES?
- Jan 15 - Samsung at CES 2012: Ultimate TV Super OLED Sensation
- Jan 15 - Synology at CES 2012: VMware compatibility explained by Franklin Hua, Technical Marketing Manager
- Jan 13 - CES 2012 Day 3
- Jan 12 - CES 2012 Day 2
- Jan 11 - CES 2012 Day 1
- Jan 11 - Some exhibitors I plan to visit Jan. 11th at CES, any suggestions?
- Jan 10 - Green route to JFK for trip to CES, hopefully we make our 9:30am flight!
- Jan 10 - “vZilla” Z68 virtualization and backup system is completely alive!
- Jan 07 - 2012: Here's a sampler of what's coming up next...
- Jan 05 - CPU, Storage, and Virtualization Glossary
- Jan 05 - iPhone 4 with iOS 5.0 Camera App becomes sluggish, here's a fix
- Jan 04 - ESXi 5.0 virtual machines do not shut down gracefully, here's the fix
- Jan 01 - An analytical look back at TinkerTry 2011
- Jan 01 - VMware Player is a free way to play with VMs
2011
- Dec 31 - Run two different Skype accounts under Windows, at the same time
- Dec 28 - Efficient Cree LED downlight that works very well with Lutron dimmer
- Dec 28 - New article by pcdoc called "ESXi Venture – Part 1" now available
- Dec 22 - Slick & quick way to transmogrify your PC into a VM: move the hard drives and type some stuff*
- Dec 19 - Q&A for those new to ESXi 5 (Cloning, Sound, and USB 2.0 handling)
- Dec 19 - Going to CES 2012! -- along with 2,700 exhibitors, 5,000 press/analysts, and 140,000 attendees)
- Dec 19 - LSI knowledgebase article points to TinkerTry for method to configure LSI RAID on Z68 motherboard
- Dec 18 - Featured on “The Home Server Show” BYOB Episode #70
- Dec 17 - How to use vSphere Client to identify and safely remove SATA drives, while the server is running
- Dec 16 - Practical ways to deal with VMware ESXi 5.0′s 2TB virtual disk size limitation
- Dec 16 - Increasing the cloning performance of VMware Converter 5.0
- Dec 14 - How to get started with VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization, on one system
- Dec 12 - "gZilla" Z68 Gaming System is completely alive!
- Dec 08 - Overwhelming feedback lately is very inspiring, but I'm outgrowing email, help!?
- Dec 07 - Reaching into the mail bag, here's a tasty sampler...
- Dec 06 - Disastron ESXi versus vZilla: you decide/discuss/deliberate!
- Dec 06 - Intel Z68 Sandy Bridge versus Z77 Ivy Bridge chipset comparison
- Dec 06 - The reasoning behind vZilla's storage configuration
- Dec 04 - The reasoning behind my virtualization & storage project called vZilla
- Nov 28 - CORSAIR CWCH60 CPU Cooler for $43.74 USD
- Nov 28 - Virtualization and backup lab construction project underway...
- Nov 22 - ESXi 5.0 Network Speed Testing Realtek 8168 versus Intel 82571EB
- Nov 22 - How to easily install a zip file patch on an ESXi 5.0 host
- Nov 21 - How to configure ESXi 5.0 for USB 3.0 passthrough to a Windows VM
- Nov 21 - USB 3.0 Speed in an ESXi 5 virtual machine can be decent
- Nov 21 - USB 3.0 Speed can be accelerated using ASRock's XFast USB Utility
- Nov 17 - How to get into LSI's RAID WebBIOS on an ASRock Z68 based system
- Nov 16 - 32GB of RAM is the sweet spot for VMware ESXi 5.0 Free Hypervisor
- Nov 15 - Hamachi VPN free software can make you feel right at home, even when you're far from it
- Nov 13 - Featured on “The Home Server Show” BYOB Episode #66
- Nov 13 - USB 3.0 is an immature implementation of promising technology
- Nov 05 - gZilla Gaming System allows Boyo to excel at StarCraft 2
- Nov 04 - Home Server Family Cloud
- Nov 02 - Day 4 of no power and counting
- Oct 27 - LSI Announces Agreement to Acquire SandForce
- Oct 24 - Resolving false "Incorrect Password" messages after MobileMe to iCloud migration: fixes for iPhone, Outlook, and Windows Live Mail
- Oct 22 - LSI 9265-8i with FastPath has the sheer power for RAID with 6Gb/s SSDs
- Oct 17 - Featured on "Rich’s Random Podcast Generator" Episode #8
- Oct 15 - FingerPrint: easily print from your iPhone or iPad to network printers and USB photo printers, even if they're not AirPrint compatible, new Windows version now installs as a service
- Oct 14 - Configure your iPhones after moving to iOS 5.0 and iCloud
- Oct 12 - MobileMe to iCloud migration tips
- Oct 12 - iOS 5.0 now available
- Oct 06 - Featured on "The Home Server Show" Episode #155
- Oct 05 - How to install Windows Home Server 2011 in an ESXi Virtual Machine
- Oct 02 - How to install Microsoft Forefront Client Security Antivirus on Windows Home Server v1
- Oct 02 - How to install Microsoft Forefront Client Security Antivirus on Windows Home Server 2011
- Oct 01 - “gZilla” Z68 Gaming System – built for speed and fun
- Oct 01 - "tZilla" ThinkPad W520 - built for storage speed and capacity
- Oct 01 - Superguide: gZilla, tZilla, & vZilla are born! (gaming, thinkpad, & virtualization)
- Sep 25 - Complete re-implementation of the Windows Storage Pool functionality (spoilers)
- Sep 24 - How to make ESXi 5.0 recognize an LSI 9265-8i RAID controller
- Sep 24 - Why using an old SSD for Intel Smart Response Technology RAID0 caching might not be a great idea
- Sep 22 - Roll-your-own hybrid drive with this SSD upgrade from OCZ
- Sep 21 - Thunderbolt and VMDirectPath could make an interesting couple
- Sep 20 - Here comes the capped data usage for cable customers?
- Sep 16 - Automatically add last modified date and time to your blog posts
- Sep 16 - You saw it here first, the new Windows 8 Unhappy Blue Screen of Death!
- Sep 16 - Windows 8 Developer Preview: SSD boot and reboot times on ThinkPad W520
- Sep 15 - Lenovo ThinkPad W520 Saga
- Sep 14 - Best affordable Intel CPU to buy for your personal virtualization project, Core i7 2600, not the 2600K!
- Sep 14 - VMware Workstation 8.0 now available for trial/upgrade/purchase at the VMware Store
- Sep 14 - Windows 8 Developer Preview running on Lenovo ThinkPad W520
- Sep 13 - Windows 8 Developer Preview Now Available for Download, but can I run it in VMware Workstation 7.1.4 or ESXi 5.0?
- Sep 12 - Comparing free email clients to Outlook 2010, can I find faster IMAP & MAPI?
- Sep 09 - SSD Background Garbage Collection and VMware ESXi 5
- Sep 07 - New firmware update 2.16.07 for the Verizon MiFi 4510L now available!
- Sep 07 - VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.0 created VMs can be run with VMware Workstatation 7.1, with a simple tweak
- Aug 29 - vSphere 5 Host Cache Configuration
- Aug 26 - VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5.0 Now Available, here's exactly how the installation looks on vZilla
- Aug 26 - ESXi 5.0.0 can give more than 32GB of RAM to a VM
- Aug 25 - VMware vSphere 5.0 Downloads Now Available!
- Aug 24 - How to copy files and folders to a USB 3.0 connected drive, while preserving date and timestamps
- Aug 24 - Windows Home Server Update Rollup 1 Available
- Aug 13 - Good RAID Controllers with SSD caching and ESX support
- Aug 07 - In the midst of crankin out photos/videos about vZilla...
- Aug 05 - Power efficiency of a Z68 motherboard system (with ten 3.5" drives), using a CyberPower UPS's LCD Display to measure watts
- Aug 03 - Free ESXi 5.0 Hypervisor will allow 32GB of physical RAM per server? 8GB per VM?
- Aug 03 - The technology behind TinkerTry.com
- Aug 03 - Why I need to replace my Windows Home Server with Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials soon!
- Aug 01 - Why I avoid hotel WiFi with my Verizon MiFi, and other info about 3G/4G LTE data device experiences...
- Aug 01 - How to power off a PC remotely (over Terminal Services / Remote Desktop Connection)
- Jul 20 - Variety of Site Updates Now Available (including walk-thru video of UEFI BIOS on ASRock Z68 Gen3)
- Jul 19 - ASRock Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen3 motherboard likes and dislikes
- Jul 19 - Issue encountered while testing ESXi 4.1U1, got a PSOD
- Jul 17 - ASRock Z68 Extreme4 motherboard likes and dislikes
- Jul 14 - Save on an impressive LED Light Bulb for your ceiling fixture
- Jul 14 - Home Internet Infrastructure - DOCSIS 3.0 Cablemodem (nearly doubled Cox download) and Cisco E4200 Router
- Jul 14 - Superguide: Z68 Sandybridge Motherboard VT-d Test Matrix: Which Mobo/CPU combo works with VMware ESXi 4.1U1 VMDirectPath feature?
- Jul 13 - PureText: Paste plain text into any Windows application with a simple keystroke combination
- Jul 13 - Superguide: “vZilla” Z68/Core i7/LSI 9265-8i - built for virtualization, storage, and speed
- Jul 12 - Remote control your iPhone audio stream, for FM radios anywhere in your house
