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    microserver gen8 vs custom build for esxi

    Current situation: I have a custom build ESXI G2030, 16GB RAM non ECC, 500GB datastore and 2 physical disks (1TB+2TB) I wanna dig deeper into VMware, but I exclude the Xeon / ECC ram because of the costs I currently use it as a fileserver machine, some airvideo transcoding, a vpn (openvpn) In...
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    distributed vswitch with free esxi

    Thanks guys I'm still a bit confused with the Vmware products (esxi, Vcenter, Vsphere) :) So I just Vsphere and Vsphere client now and I have to reinstall the hypervisor (trial Vcenter?) and then get the Vcenter Web client? Or I am able to add a trial licence key and transform to Vcenter for...
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    distributed vswitch with free esxi

    I'm unable to create a distributed vswitch with the free version of esxi 5.5 (for port mirroring option) this is how my web client looks http://s7.postimg.org/y52mh6h2z/esxi.png is distributed vswitch only available in vcenter and not free esxi? Thanks, Mihai
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    ESXI VGA Passthrough

    Hello I have an ESXI box, with MSI H77 mainboard, I5-2400 CPU, Intel HD2000 onboard + Nvidia 630GT I want to passthrough the Nvidia 630GT to a Windows host I have set in the bios the Intel as the default card to use Still, in ESXI I can't passthrough the Nvidia card, i just see the...
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    AMD Zerocore and VGA passthrough

    I am curious if the AMD ZeroCore is working in case of VGA passthrough http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNJ_Ak3zYtQ Has anybody tested? Thanks
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    Question about VT-D and passthrough

    I wanna build a ESXI box for study purposes / NAS I played with a i3 that doesnt have VT-D, esxi is installed on one hdd I have another 2TB that is set in IDE mode so I can access it through the operation system. One thing i notice, is that the hdd never goes idle. If i had VT-d could i...
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