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    Acer Predator X34P G-Sync Ultra Wide (3440x1440@100hz)

    I never said I was going to game at that distance, but it would seem that a higher curve is better for the eyes as it decreases the difference in distance between your eyes and the pixel in the centre of the screen and your eyes and the pixels at the edge of the screen. Originally I was pro...
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    Acer Predator X34P G-Sync Ultra Wide (3440x1440@100hz)

    I've been trying to figure out "optimal" curvature... I've read a few different articles on the subject and "optimal" would be when you are at the same distance from every pixel. This means the viewing distance should equal the radius. For computer monitors, a smaller radius (more curve) would...
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    ESXi Passthrough not activating

    Update! Not support right now, but support is coming down the pipe, here is the latest from Supermicro Support. "According to VMWare, they currently have a beta driver but not available to the public. They will not have a production driver until early next year, sometime in January."
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    Shutdown all networked machines due to Power Outage

    After much fiddling with NUT USB driver and trying to setup a NUT Server on both Windows and Linux and multiple clients, without much success, as it would seem my UPS isnt truely support via USB with NUT, I stumbled upon this little script... http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-17485...
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    Insanely slow broadband since moving house

    +1 Another computer on the same network works fine, your computer in safe mode works fine AND you cant seem to pinpoint what software/driver is causing your issue. format/clean install, unless you absolutely want to troubleshoot this issue as a learning experience. If so you need to provide a...
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    Shutdown all networked machines due to Power Outage

    @JohnYYC NUT looks like it would work, if only I could get it to detect my UPS via USB on the NUT server. I might need to switch to the serial connection, which NUT documentation mentions that stock cable does not work and I'll need to build a custom one. Argggg why can't anything be simple...
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    Shutdown all networked machines due to Power Outage

    I have a Liebert PSI 1500VA UPS connected to my Windows 2008 Server via USB and the MultiLink software is installed on it. Its actually a VM on my ESXi host, but for all intent and purposes, the USB is connected to it. The software is currently configured to shutdown the Windows 2008 sever...
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    ESXi All-In-One build implementation and optimization help wanted

    From my understanding... which may very well be wrong... VMCI removes the network layer when communicating between VMs and VM to Host, dramatically increasing communications speeds. My assumption is communication speeds includes network traffic, excluding the use of VMXNET3 VMXNet3 would help...
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    ESXi All-In-One build implementation and optimization help wanted

    Posst #12 had small file transfer benches (1.5MB or smaller) The following are NFS and SMB large file speeds. All speeds are MB/s VT-d passthrough Sync Enabled SMB write/read 35/32 (Very stable speed, little fluctuation) Sync Disabled SMB write/read 34/31 (Very stable speed, little...
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    ESXi Passthrough not activating

    Supermicro tech said he would get back to me next week with an answer, I'm guessing it will be something along the lines of "Not Supported". In the mean time I've found a very reliable (so far) and flexible alternative. Local RDM passthrough device. I even tested going from a RDM back to a...
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    ESXi All-In-One build implementation and optimization help wanted

    So here are the step to recreate my "Local RDM Passthrough" device as previously mentioned in this thread. On the ESXi host console - What disks does ESXi see # ls -l /dev/disk | more - Find the disk you want to passthrough. I did this by the serial number and the numbering it uses (port...
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    2012 Lab Project - Should I scrap the ESXi/ZFS All in One? Whats next?

    If you already have an All-In-One... why not nest ESXi hosts... use your NAS/SAN from your All-In-On to serve DataStores to the nested ESXi hosts. Run a few light VMs on them just so you can play with vMotion, nothing "home production" on the nested stuff... I did a quick test of this, using...
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    ESXi All-In-One build implementation and optimization help wanted

    Later tonight I will post more SMB/NFS speeds as the current posted speeds are for multiple small file transfer (1.5MB or smaller). I will test when transfering large files (1GB or larger). I expect close to double the speeds. I also previously mentioned I would test RDM with VMCI enabled...
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    ESXi All-In-One build implementation and optimization help wanted

    So now that we know performance is near equal... what are the advantages/disadvantages of using VT-d and those of Local RDM passthrough... VT-d - The whole controlelr must be passthrough (this can be taken as an advantage or disadvantage), in my case a disadvantage due to the issue with my...
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    ESXi All-In-One build implementation and optimization help wanted

    So I've completed and compared the benchmarks of Local RDM vs VT-d The results to me seem clear... performance is equal... as close as it gets without nit picking. I was also testing SMB vs NFS with ZFS sync enabled and sync disabled at the same time, and figured I'd compare these on RDM and...
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