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QUOTE="Rison, post: 1042531897, member: 233900"]We replaced heartbeat switches, tried direct xover cabling but data pools kept messing up / dropping / not updating regularly. That' maybe your issue. You can't use the switch between the 2 heart beat LAN ports (they must be the same LAN port on...

I don't think you can use Quadro K620 in neither vDGA (PCI pass thru) or sVGA (software share) with VMWare. You may want to do a quick test to be sure. Quadro K2000 works (or the older Quadro 4000 works too).

I think we were over thinking the solution. Current setup: 1 ESXi host, 1 NAS To minimize run time, I would just double what the current setup is. + 2 Synology NAS units in HA setup. With the current budget, I would just use SSD in raid 6 or 1. + 2 ESXi hosts. There's no real local...

For a basic server/client setup. Here’s what you’ll need: CPU/Motherboard that support virtualization (VT-x) and direct I/O (VT-d). VT-d allow you to give the guest virtual machine direct access to the hardware. It’s important to pass-through the VGA cards and HBA card for...

Thank you. After alot of reading, I think it's much cheaper to run the cards in vDGA PCI pass-through than trying the get vGPU due to the high cost of GRID cards. I don't think I'll need more than 2-4 Win7 VMs with vDGA. I can get 4 quadro 4000 for much cheaper than a Grid K1/K2.

Hello, I see WEI in the VM guest. With a built VGA, I have a score or 1, with a quadro fx 1700, I have a score of 3. I can buy supported card for ESXi vGPU, however I am using a free ESXi license. Do I need Horizon to take advantage of vGPU? I am very new to virtualization and ESXi. Thanks

Hi everyone, I am setting up a ESXi to host my NAS, a few Win7 VMs (nothing major, just basic office software and maybe Photoshop here and there). I’ll access the Win7 via RPD/RemoteFX/Remote Console Is there a benefit to get a decent GPU into this setup? When I change my graphic cards...

I would boot into BIOS setup, go into HW health and watch CPU temperature in there. Leave the computer in BIOS setup mode for a while and see if the temperature is stable.

MSI x58m SLI. Have this board (with the i7-950) for about 4.5 years now. Still going strong. I'll put in a Xeon 5650 and will keep the board for another 4-5 years at least. It's for my media server/rendering server and stay on 24/7. Rendering is done with some help from a tesla M2090 GPU...

I did the same thing as DejaWiz. I used a 256G SSD in a USB3 enclosure to take my VM with me. That way can just open the VM right from the SSD with relatively good speed.

I wouldn't worry about it. I use a 120mm radiator with the fan on low and my temp was never an issue. As long as your comp can control the fanspeed, there's nothing to worry about.