Supermicro - The Virtual Bit

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Supermicro

A collection of 3 posts

VMware Cloud Foundation "in a box" - Holodeck Homelab Build

After parting with a small Supermicro Homelab in 2022 and having some time away from running my own kit I decided it was time to re-invest and get ready for the incoming VCF v9 release in 2025. Until version 9 of Cloud Foundation is out of beta and widely available

Supermicro IPMI - Mount Virtual Media Without Licence Key

Having recently built a new homelab server I needed to mount an ISO to install the VMware ESXi Hypervisor, after configuring the Supermicro onboard managment with an IP and logging in, I was given the option to use a HTML5 Remote Console, all was going well until I selected the

Supermicro IPMI interface Unable to mount ISO

I recently had the need to mount a bootable ISO to the Supermicro server I use in my lab environment using the built in IPMI tool. Its a relatively straight forward process, or at least it should be :) 1. Create a standard windows share and give open or authenticated account