Recent content by iloveme

Hi, Thank you for the info. Yes, I'm trying to build a system in which I will experiment different VMware products ( vSphere , vCloud , Site Recovery Manager etc ) . In terms of performance, a direct sata passthrough controller would have been a bliss . Because 2 nested VMs + FreeNAS VM would...

Forgot to say thank you ! I'm reading it right now.

Yes, that would work , as I have already an old 640 GB laptop disk. But this will not help me because I will not be able to passthrough the controller because it is already used by the ESXi ( correct me if I am wrong ). Pff, what a bump. I was sure I had the "perfect" setup to start with...

Crap . I did not know that, thank you very much for this info . Have to rethink this...

Question : why can't I use an USB ? I'm planning to install ESXi on a 16 GB usb stick , boot from it, and with the remaining space ( I think 8 GB or something ) create a datastore where the FreeNAS VM will be installed . - I don't need ECC ( actually, don't see why pay a lot extra for mobo +...

Hello, Anyone being able to assist me ? At least with the Hardware part , and if someone knows for sure that SATA controller can be passthrough for Intel DQ87PG ( from my knowledge, the controller is Intel(R) 8 Series C220 Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller ) . Thank you !

Hi, I'm currently building my first physical ESXi lab. Will be running ESXi 5.5 and, for starters, it will be an all-in-one box. -> Reason for building it I am doing this only for VMware learning purposes, so I will not have SQL DB or anything else. However, I'll test vSphere 5, afterwards...

Hello all, My first post, so please bare with me :) .I'm humbly requesting for your help : I'm trying to build an ESXi whitebox for my home.I would like a single box, running ESXi 5.x where I would be running a nested ESXi cluster with 2 hosts+1 vCenter, which will host a few VMs ( only...