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Lucas J's Homelab Feature
Enterprise  ◇  HomeLab

Home Lab Deep Dive: a VM Focused Setup

  I am in the cyber security industry, so I try to stay up to date on the new and the perennially popular technologies. I’m working on setting up a workflow to practice bringing in dirty malware files and safely analyze them. My whole stack of gear sits in my living room, right next to

Corbett Homelab Feature
Enterprise  ◇  HomeLab

Home Lab Deep Dive: Jack-of-all-Trades Setup

Welcome to my penetration testing/software development/media editing/jack-of-all-trades lab! What started out two years ago is a crummy old Cisco switch and router, with a cheap r610, and no gigabit networking in sight (shudder), has grown to quite a decent little lab.

Enterprise  ◇  HomeLab

How To: Raspberry Pi as a vSAN Witness

VMware developers released the ESXi ARM fling, a version of ESXi that can run on devices based around ARM processors such as the Raspberry Pi 4b we are using, Nintendo Switch Consoles, and many other SBC’s. Setting up the Raspberry Pi to run ESXi is fairly quick, we covered the installation and setup of a

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

DapuStor H3900 SSD Review

The DapuStor H3900 is an enterprise SSD that is part of the company’s Haishen3-XL line. Unlike the H3100 or the H3200, the DapuStor H3900 is based around KIOXIA XL-FLASH technology (the first drive available on the market with the new technology), hence the name of Haishen3-XL. Being based around storage class memory (SCM), this SSD

esxi arm fling
Enterprise  ◇  HomeLab

Installing ESXi Arm Fling On Raspberry Pi

In October of this year, VMware announced the ability to run ESXi on 64-bit Arm processors. This was further enabled through VMware’s Project Monterey and Arm’s Project Cassini. Arm-based devices include SmartNICs and Raspberry Pi devices. Now through a VMware Fling (a VMware program sponsored through the Office of the CTO designed to offer early-stage

Dell PowerEdge R6525 Server Front
Enterprise  ◇  Server

Dell EMC PowerEdge R6525 Server Review (PCIe Gen4)

A few weeks back we reviewed the Dell EMC PowerEdge R6525 Server. Overall, the 1U server was pretty impressive but lacked one thing that would really make it stand out, support for PCIe Gen4 storage end-to-end. Well, with the help of the people at Dell Technologies, we’ve corrected this and are reviewing the server again,

PCIe Gen4 SSD
Enterprise  ◇  SSD

SK hynix Develops PCIe Gen4 Enterprise SSD Portfolio

SK hynix is not only the world’s third-largest semiconductor company and the second-largest memory chipmaker, they also use their technological acumen to make a well-regarded line of SATA and NVMe flash storage devices. In this article, we will provide an overview of the PE8010, SK hynix’s latest PCIe Gen4 Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe) drive, and

Enterprise  ◇  HomeLab

Home Lab Deep Dive: Creative Pro Setup

  Hi there, I’m Vince and I’m a Digital Imaging Technician (DIT) in the film industry and a member of IATSE Local 600. I also do video editing and color grading from home. You may know my work if you’ve ever checked out one of StorageReview’s YouTube videos; I’ve been editing them since April 2020

Dell Poweredge R6525 Server
Enterprise  ◇  Server

Dell EMC PowerEdge R6525 Server Review

The Dell EMC PowerEdge R6525 is a 1U, dual-socket server designed for intensive, dense computing. Having the product number end in a 5 indicates that this particular server is an AMD EPYC variety. In this case, the R6525 leverages two AMD CPUs with support for up to 128 cores.

Seagate IronWolf Pro 18TB Feature
Enterprise  ◇  HDD

Seagate IronWolf Pro 18TB Review

The Seagate IronWolf Pro 18TB is the company’s highest capacity NAS drive designed for always-on, always accessible 24×7 usage, marking an impressive 2TB gain from last year’s model (which significantly increases a user’s net capacity in larger NAS solutions). With this massive capacity point and focus on reliability and endurance, the company’s new 18TB drive