A few days ago I had an opportunity to buy some used hardware that was going to be thrown away. Among all that was a 2U Supermicro server with two E5-2620v4 CPUs and 256 GB of DDR4 RAM. It has 8 LFF slots with caddies but there is no RAID controller and drives are connected…
I started my home lab journey with a HP Compaq desktop machine with Intel E8400 CPU and 16GB of RAM. It was running Hyper-V and it was doing it’s job. One day I was looking at network settings of a virtual switch and saw a checkmark at “Allow management operating system to share this network…