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- Sep 27, 2003
What do you guys use?
I've got an ESXi 5.5 server built and successfully doing GPU and USB passthrough. I'd like to passthrough the onboard SATA (though I haven't tested, I'm pretty sure it will work) to a VM and dedicate that VM as a NAS.
Here are the specs so far:
Antec 900 with plenty of airflow and plenty of 3.5" HDD space
AMD FX-8350 w/aftermarket cooler
32GB DDR3-1600 ECC UDIMMs
256GB SSD running VMs
800W OCZ EliteXStream PSU
GPUs: 2x 6450 + 1x 5450 Radeons; using HDMI over ethernet
USB Cards: 2x USB 3.0 + 1x USB 2.0 (although over ethernet is 1.1)
Additional NIC: 2x Gigabit (3 total with onboard NIC)
I have a Synology DS212j with a Raid-1 3TB setup with Seagate Constellation drives. I also have two more of those 3TB drives in my current server/HTPC. I have a total of 4 of them I could theoretically dump into this ESXi box, but honestly I do love the Synology and worried about touching it.
I've got an ESXi 5.5 server built and successfully doing GPU and USB passthrough. I'd like to passthrough the onboard SATA (though I haven't tested, I'm pretty sure it will work) to a VM and dedicate that VM as a NAS.
Here are the specs so far:
Antec 900 with plenty of airflow and plenty of 3.5" HDD space
AMD FX-8350 w/aftermarket cooler
32GB DDR3-1600 ECC UDIMMs
256GB SSD running VMs
800W OCZ EliteXStream PSU
GPUs: 2x 6450 + 1x 5450 Radeons; using HDMI over ethernet
USB Cards: 2x USB 3.0 + 1x USB 2.0 (although over ethernet is 1.1)
Additional NIC: 2x Gigabit (3 total with onboard NIC)
I have a Synology DS212j with a Raid-1 3TB setup with Seagate Constellation drives. I also have two more of those 3TB drives in my current server/HTPC. I have a total of 4 of them I could theoretically dump into this ESXi box, but honestly I do love the Synology and worried about touching it.