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    Dell Vlan Gurus ?

    i have a 2724 feeding a pfsense interface with multiple vlans. the switch port wired to pfsense is 'T'agged on the VLAN Membship for each of the vlans to trunk to pfsense. this is the tricky part that I was stuck on, under Port Settings, for the switch port wired to pfsense, i had to give it a...
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    Confused about passing HDDs to VM in ESXi

    yup same here. although an OEM part, $35 IBM br10i :)
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    Confused about passing HDDs to VM in ESXi

    bad news. my SuperMicro X9SCM-F shows a single onboard SATA controller under Configuration > Advanced Settings > Edit... (where you mark devices for passthrough) for me it reads as 00:1f.2 | Intel Cougar Point 6 port SATA AHCI Controller every other line is accounted for in terms of hardware...
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    Confused about passing HDDs to VM in ESXi

    that is a great question that I don't have an immediate answer to. let me do some sleuthing over lunch.
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    Confused about passing HDDs to VM in ESXi

    absolutely. i said "you need at least 2 controllers" which certainly can include the onboard controller. and later even said so that should sum that up.
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    Confused about passing HDDs to VM in ESXi

    hyper-v offers physical disk passthrough; http://www.servethehome.com/hyperv-disk-passthrough-quick-guide/. thats what confused me at first. i read about that first and then saw passthrough in ESXi and assumed it was the same. sounds like you have a good plan!
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    Confused about passing HDDs to VM in ESXi

    danswartz and i have both similar builds (i went the X9SCM-F route though) and similar [H] browsing/reply schedules :D
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    Confused about passing HDDs to VM in ESXi

    unfortunately ESXi cannot passthrough a single disk directly to a VM. what you can do is pass a whole (supported) controller through to a VM. in the case of your onboard controller, I believe that works to passthrough. the kicker is that all disks attached to the controller get passed to the VM...
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    All-In-One Build

    danswartz's points on memory is what i'd recommend as well, however, OP should that he is talking about the system RAM where OP's 8GB was a USB stick for the ESXi partitions. regarding the USB stick, the install is right around 1GB, but some USB drives dont have exactly 1GB of space or maybe...
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    pfSense VLAN question

    same as aaronearles but with a Dell PowerConnect 2724. here's a thread from couple weeks ago talking about setting up the vlan interfaces in pfSense: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1613226 if you need some help in that area.
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    Multiple Windows Media Center Machines Share Recorded Shows?

    that said, each provider (comcast, twc, etc) is responsible for setting the copy-once flag on the content. i don't have use WMC to record shows, but i've read numerous places that say many providers just don't set this flag to restrict copying the file (or being played by other instances of WMC).
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    pfSense VM as DHCP, chicken or egg?

    perfect. sometimes the easiest solution slips the mind when you are crunchin' on a problem, you know? thanks
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    pfSense VM as DHCP, chicken or egg?

    what a great response! I was planning on having all my management interfaces (ESXi, switch, and IPMI) on a different vlan and use pfSense to apply routing rules to that vlan (i.e. allow traffic from my workstation to that subnet). I will now have the DHCP service turned off for that interface...
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    pfSense VM as DHCP, chicken or egg?

    i should also add, that in my head, the ESXi management NIC is cabled to the switch and VLANed to a management VLAN which is then part of the trunk to the physical internal NIC of the pfSense VM for routing
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    pfSense VM as DHCP, chicken or egg?

    this thread is not meant to be a battle over the virtues of a virtual routing appliance. been there, done that. This might be as philosophical as a networking forum can get, but here it goes. I am working on upgrading my standard nerd home network. So far, I have only been planning in my head...
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