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TrueNas + vSphere optimization
Read more: TrueNas + vSphere optimizationINTRO I’ve been running TrueNAS at home for about 2 years now, first purely as an iSCSI NVM target for vSphere datastores via an older HP EliteDesk G4 SFF box. It never let me down, so, this year, I decided to expand my use, bought a Dell R730 LFF to replace my existing vSphere based…
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DIY secure destruction of ESXi SSDs
Read more: DIY secure destruction of ESXi SSDsSpring cleaning season is here in Montreal. To make a Saturday May 3 2026 rainy day , I decided to inventory some older hardware I found in my home-office, including some Patriot-brand SSDs that caused me a lot of grief 3 years back. With ESXi 7.0.3 released Oct 5, 2021 , VMware recommended exiting the…
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TPM chips the achilles heel of re-purposing old hardware for vSphere
Read more: TPM chips the achilles heel of re-purposing old hardware for vSphereINTRO Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chips went into common usage in the early 2000s when the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) was formed by Intel and other companies to enhance hardware security by providing a secure environment for cryptographic operations and secure key storage TPM chips typically measure about 1 x 1 inch or smaller, if…
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BMW X1 aka “white lightning”
Read more: BMW X1 aka “white lightning”Let’s do a blog post in the format of ‘the 5 W’s’: WHO / WHAT / WHEN / WHERE / WHY, for my latest car purchase, almost an annual event now. I’ll go through the W’s in a different order: WHO: I’m 46 this July, I live in Laval (close to Montreal), Canada. I’m an…
Owen Reynolds Personal blog 