HalfJawElite
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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
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182251
X9SCL+-F
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182262
X9SRi-f
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182331
From what I can tell the only difference between the first two is that the +-F has two 82574L nics while the -F-O has one 82579LM and one 82574L nic. The third board is much like the ASUS P9X79 WS board I'm using with Hyper-V 2012. I know that the LM nic isn't supported by ESXi out of the box but I haven't heard too much on these boards reliability, both when trying to setup the system for the first time and while running ESXi afterwards. Too add to the mess the feedback on New Egg hasn't helped me either, even though I know better than to base my decision entirely off that!
Can anyone vouch for these boards or suggest something similar that they know? I only plan on using the system with the 32 GB RAM limit and some minor virtualization.
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
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182251
X9SCL+-F
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182262
X9SRi-f
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182331
From what I can tell the only difference between the first two is that the +-F has two 82574L nics while the -F-O has one 82579LM and one 82574L nic. The third board is much like the ASUS P9X79 WS board I'm using with Hyper-V 2012. I know that the LM nic isn't supported by ESXi out of the box but I haven't heard too much on these boards reliability, both when trying to setup the system for the first time and while running ESXi afterwards. Too add to the mess the feedback on New Egg hasn't helped me either, even though I know better than to base my decision entirely off that!
Can anyone vouch for these boards or suggest something similar that they know? I only plan on using the system with the 32 GB RAM limit and some minor virtualization.
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