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Awesome, Thank you very much

So I have been running the Sophos UTM on an old Dell 780 with 2 NICs and it has been great. But I am in the process of virtualizing it and I have a question about the NIC setup with ESXi. I have a 4 port NIC in my ESXi host and was wondering if I give the UTM direct access to 2 of the ports...

Great. Thanks for the advice again! I am having no issues with 5.5 right now so if there isn't any new feature/benefit in 6 then I will probably just stick with 5.5.

Im sorry, I have one last question. My current host is ESXi 5.5. Is it worth it to install 6.0 on my new server? If so, do I need to do anything to my VMs to prepare them for 6.0? (Sorry again, that's 2 questions.)

That is what I have been reading about. I will keep the search going. Thank you very much for all your help and advice! It has helped more than you know.

Did not know this, Thank you very much for the info! I'm OK with CrashPlan since it is a set and forget solution (even though I had some issues getting it through my Sophos firewall) But is there a better solution that can actually backup the VM itself and not just inside the VM?

This helps tremendously. Should I keep ESXi running off the USB key in the new server for good or put it on a HDD after I know everything works? With the new server I will have more room for expansion, so more disks. I have CrashPlan running on all my VMs, is there a better solution?

Not yet.

No sir, I am not using RAID. So I can move my VMs OS drives to a new HDD. Then I can using my current ESXi drive in my new host, install ESXi and have it recognize all the data? Or can I just move the HDDs over and have it boot on the new hardware?

So I have a built a new ESXi host and need to move my current VMs to it. My only issue I see right now is moving one of my VMs as it is my Plex Media server. I have 2 HDDs in the current host one for ESXi OS and it also holds the VMs C Drives, the second HDD is a 3TB drive that is completely...

Thank you for the confirmation freebeerz. An idle around 50-60w which would be great. I have a gaming rig that idles around 140w, she's a beast.

Do you know of any other way to let my firewall access a wifi card to create a WAP?

Can you explain why you avoid it? Do you know of any other way to let my firewall access a wifi card to create a WAP? The_Moves explanation is way over my head.

Great. Thanks for the help Child. Do you know if the Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 allows for passthrough or IOMMU or VT-d....whatever they call it? Also, I cant find a clear answer if the FX processors support it either?

Can I put something like...