Andrew Roderos

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VMware ESXi Home Lab – Intel NUC 12 (Wall Street Canyon)

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If you follow me on Instagram, you know that I recently installed ESXi 7 on Intel NUC 12 (Wall Street Canyon). It will join my existing ESXi hosts in my home lab I assembled in 2012, 2016, and 2020. The Intel NUC 6th generation has been showing its age. Most of my Windows VMs, if not all, are running slow now. I can still use the VMs, but it is not ideal. With that said, I decided to buy yet another Intel NUC to run ESXi on. Hardware I wanted to get …

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Upgrade NUC10i7FNH to ESXi 7

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Note: If you're going to run EVE-NG on this host, then do not upgrade to ESXi 7.0 Looks like EVE-NG is not compatible with ESXi 7.0. Need to downgrade to ESXi 6.7U3.— Andrew Roderos (@andrewroderos) May 4, 2020 Earlier this year, I wrote an article about my new ESXi host, the Intel NUC 10 - Frost Canyon. The article covered how to install VMware ESXi 6.7 on the NUC. Since VMware released the new ESXi version, I decided to upgrade my Frost Canyon NUC to ESXi 7.0. This guide describes how …

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VMware ESXi Home Lab – Intel NUC 10 (Frost Canyon)

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If you follow me on Instagram or Twitter, then you know that I recently installed VMware ESXi on Intel NUC 10 (Frost Canyon). It will join the existing hosts in my VMware ESXi home lab that I assembled in 2012 and 2016. While these hosts are old, they're still useful for what they currently do. Eventually, I'm going to repurpose the ESXi 2012 build and will talk about it in a future article. The ESXi 2016 build will continue to host my current virtual servers and future …

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