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Hey everyone, I got a bit of an issue. Recently added a couple of SSD's to my home rig for some added speed and space. I'm currently rocking an ASUS Crosshair 5 Formula motherboard with 6 Corsair Force 3 GT's in a RAID 0 config on the onboard AMD RAID chipset. Because of this setup I had to...

Hey everyone, Just wanted to get any ideas on having the Intel RS2WC040 RAID in my gaming rig. I recently maxed out the SATA3 ports on my ASUS Crosshair V Formula board with 6 Corsair Force GT's, and wanted to get any suggestions on using this card in my rig for a pair of 1TB RAID 1's. I...

Hey everyone, I'm having an issue with setting up Remote Computer Management in Server 2012. My setup is as follows: 2 identical physical hosts (1 Hyper-V Server 2012 and 1 ESXi 5.1) 1 Active Directory Domain Controller installed as a VM in the ESXi host I have my Hyper-V host already...

I'm currently in the market for a new router that supports remote IPSec VPN access to my home network. The router must support wireless (latest "n" standard is a plus) and must have gigabit links for LAN at least. I have been considering the following two routers but neither has an IPSec VPN...

Hey all, Just wondering if I could get some suggestions for 1 or 2 port SATA III cards for an ESXi 5 host I have. The card doesn't have to support RAID or even JBOD for that matter, just standard drive connection, detection and read/write operation. If possible and its guaranteed to work in...

Hey everyone, So I've been browsing around the HCL for ESXi and located a number of Supermicro boards that are compatible with ESXi 5.1 but am having a difficult time choosing which. The choices I have come down to are as follows: X9SCL-F-O...

Hey guys, I have a question regarding the reliability of the ET dual port server adapter. I have a Windows Server 2012 hyper-v host thats used to run all of the vm's I use in my house on an ASUS P9X79 WS motherboard. The board comes with 2 Intel gigabit nic's, one of which is an Intel server...

Hey guys, Just a quick discussion topic. I currently have a small lab setup at home and have Server 2008 R2 Datacenter installed on a 500 gig hdd with hyper-v role setup on it. I was wondering what the pro's and con's would be to switch over to Hyper-v Server on an ssd? I have a file...

Just wondering how many of you out there have used or are using the IBM M1015 SAS/SATA RAID cards in ESXi without any problems. I currently have an Intel RS2WC040 RAID card that won't even allow ESXi to boot when it's installed in the system and am looking for a better alternative. I plan on...

Hey everyone, I've been trying to install the driver for my new raid card in my home ESXi server but have so far been unsuccessful. I have downloaded the latest driver from Intel's website for ESXi 5 and tried installing it using these commands: ~ # esxcli software vib install...

Hey guys, Recently bought an Intel RS2WC040 RAID card for my home ESXi server so that I can use it with pass-through to Server 2008 R2. My plans are to use it with Server 2008 R2 as a file server without having to create virtual hard drives to mount to the vm. My issue now is that ESXi hangs...

Hi all, I'm looking on getting a question answered regarding this RAID controller card: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i SG. The question I have is do I need to add the drivers into the ESXi iso in order for the hypervisor to allow for I/O passthrough, or are the drivers just for ESXi to use for its...

Hey all, Got my ESXi box up and running finally and have been playing around with it while using my VCP-510 study guide to prep for my cert exam. Lately I've been thinking of creating a vm for FreeNAS 8 in vShpere and setting up a test bed for another NAS box to replace my DNS-323. The...

Hey guys and gals, I'm starting the build for my new virtualization server but I'm not sure what the best way to install both Hyper-V and ESXi on the same SSD is. The SSD in question is the 90 GB Corsair Force Series 3 GT. Now I'm just wondering if I can install both on separate partitions...

I'm looking for suggestions on an AMD based server on which I plan on running ESXi on for practice at home. I have noticed plenty of Intel based ESXi servers but no AMD one's that are guaranteed to work with ESXi 5 I plan on running the free version to start with which I know limits the...