by Tom Fenton | Mar 2, 2021 | virtualization and cloud review, VMware
This the last part of my series on the QNAP TS-431K. I add a caching drive to it, use the command line to look at it and set up an NFS file share on it. Read the full article at Virtualization & Cloud Review . Related Links: Home Lab NAS (QNAP TS-431) Part 1:...
by Tom Fenton | Feb 25, 2021 | virtualization and cloud review, VMware
After installing, configuring my TM-431K NAS and creating an iSCSI target and NFS share on it I installed QNAP applications replace Dropbox to stream video and music from it. Read the full article at Virtualization & Cloud Review . Related Links: Home Lab NAS...
by Tom Fenton | Feb 25, 2021 | virtualization and cloud review, VMware
I decided to go with the QNAP TM-431K for my home lab NAS. Here is my writeup of installing and configurint it. Read the full article at Virtualization & Cloud Review . Related Links: Home Lab NAS (QNAP TS-431) Part 1: Intro and Specs Home Lab NAS (QNAP TS-431)...
by Tom Fenton | Feb 24, 2021 | virtualization and cloud review, VMware
After loosing a few VM’s due to lack of backups I decided to invest in a NAS. I this article I go through my thought process on why I decided to buy one rather than build one. Read the full article at Virtualization & Cloud Review . Related Links: Home Lab...
by Tom Fenton | Feb 10, 2021 | virtualization and cloud review, VMware
The Argon ONE M.2 case for a Raspberry Pi has a place to put a M.2 SATA SSD drive. I installed ESXi on it and used a Ubuntu VM to use it. This article details that experience and my thoughts on it. Read the full article at Virtualization & Cloud Review . Related...
by Tom Fenton | Feb 4, 2021 | virtualization and cloud review
In a previous article, I discussed how I used an inexpensive ($25) video capture card to capture HDMI output from a physical system. Unfortunatly the screen captures from that system were fuzzy. In this article I used a different device and was able to capture far...