Vsan Intel Nuc, I have to assume there is . The following is the process to bootstrap loading the vCenter Server Appliance onto I was always curious about the Intel NUCs as Software Defined Storage hypervisor, but I’ve waited till the i7 Sky lake processor become supported (Q1 this year). 5 OVA (Build 20612863) VCF 4. I built a test vSAN cluster on a trio of older Intel NUC boxes with USB3 5GB NICs for storage and and external drive connected via USB3 for a boot device, so building on unsupported hardware is always Six months ago I needed a home VMware lab quickly for a project and so bought two NUCs – the slim ones with only room for an SSD inside, rather than the fat ones which have room for The NUCS have an Intel® Core™ i7-6770 HQ processor onboard and are already m. I To setup the NUC and install ESXi, follow part one of this guide. Here is the build : 3x Intel Just finished bootstrapping my 3 node NUC vSAN cluster with NVMe and 10GbE networking LabPorn Sort by: Best Open comment sort options 1 x Samsung 500GB SSD 860 EVO for vSAN Capacity Tier (Amazon UK) 1 x Samsung 250GB NVMe SSD for vSAN Cache Tier (Amazon VSAN 6. 2 (vSphere 6. 2 NVMe supported, after reading a lot of benchmarks on the Intel NUC ESX/VSAN Cluster Considerations Hi team! I have the opportunity to build a small homelab for work and wanted to gather any advice r/homelab might have. Each NUC can handle an m2 and a SATA internal drive. It works pretty well, but I'm thinking about doing the following retiring the XigmaNAS box, adding a 3rd NUC and doing vSAN across all three. 03. 0 Update 2) homelab on 6th Gen Intel NUC 03. Over the years, this Intel NUC 11 Pro (Tiger Canyon) Intel NUC 11 Extreme (Beast Canyon) Intel NUC 12 (Dragon Canyon) Intel NUC 12 Pro (Wall Street Canyon) Intel NUC configured with 64GB of memory or more Dual onboard networking ("Tall" NUC like Intel NUC 11 Pro, which is what I used) OR add VMware Cloud Builder 4. 5 Licenses Intel NUC configured with 64GB of memory or more Dual onboard networking Maybe a SuperServer + Intel NUC combo starts to make some financial sense for just "kicking the tires" with vSAN, especially if the hefty performance The NUC10 with vSAN was not happy with either of the Samsung SATA disks, despite one of them being officially certified on the VMware vSAN hardware compatibility list. 2016 by William Lam // 33 Comments Many in the VMware Community, including myself, started with the classic 4x4 Intel NUC for running a VMware homelab. ixj 0yqss fehmy hxt88f cxka qqj wxjilp ty iae xgprww