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I have just tried this with ESXi 6.5, Nvidia GT710 on Ubuntu 16.04, but as soon as I intall the Nvidia drivers and reboot, I get to the login screen and get stuck there, login in just returns me to the login screen, unable to login. Any ideas please?

Thanks for your reply, I was hoping there was an option for fitting 3.5" into the chassis somehow easily and cost effective, as I wanted to keep everything in the one unit to save power / resources. I'll have to sell the the two 2TB 3.5" drives and purchase some 2.5", not cheap.

Hi, I have just purchased a Dell R710, the 2.5" drive version, and I have a couple of 3.5" sata drives I would like to put in it and use as central media storage within an ESXi environment as raid 1. Is this possible and if so what are my options please? Regards.

Indeed,I'll give it a try,thanks.

Hi metril, that's excellent news. Do you know of a good tutorial on how to do this please? Regards.

Hi Zarathustra[H], thanks for your reply. I'm hoping things have changed over the past year and more Nvidia cards are cpabale of passthrough (or just wishfull thinking). How can I tell if an Nvidia card is capable of passthrough?

Hi, I know this threads been dead for a while, but I am at the point of wanting to do exactly this. I have been using an i5 Desktop with Linux running TVHeadend and Kodi, then Odroids (Like Pi's) in the kitchen, bedroom, etc. I use Vsphere and VM's in my work, so am now at the stage where I...