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Did you find any solution? Just got a Odyssey G5 32" with the same problems... when going to sleep, all the stuff on my 2nd screen (24") move to the 1st screen (32") because the screen kinda "reboot" (disconnect/reconnect) when waking up.

MPLS won't help. With MPLS, you will get the same bandwitdth, just remove the VPN part (network will be routed directly on L2 between sites). What you could do is using SD-WAN Accelerator. Those will compress data end to end and help with bandwidth. Another thing to look, is the CPU of the Firewall giving the VPN. Is he able to provide 100% of the bandwith trought the VPN pipe ? Maybe he's lagging around.

wow that was hard to read. Please use formating next time (space, dot, line return) ! For FreeNAS, you don't want a RAID card, you will want an HBA (a card in "IT Mode" - Like the cheap LSI 9211 or M1015 or Perc H310 flashed). The connector you show on the picture look like from a Dell Server. What do you have on the other end ? Might be easier to get a card and new cables (like SFF-8087 to 4 x SATA)

Take a look at this : https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=360404397

You can then use the "Task Scheduler", schedule a reboot and place a .bat (or whatever you want) to start the programs you want at boot time.

@benny_r_t_2 As @scottyseng said, ESXi is working fine, but I'm just unable to see the drive status in ESXi... Look like Broadcom didnt release the "working" SMI-S" for ESXi 6.7 yey. @scottyseng It's most likely what I will do so I can manage it, but it's not detected, even by StoreCLI (work fine on Linux). I'm ordering 9361-8i, VMWare said it should work fine with lsi_mr3 divers. Let's see !

The problems with non-HCL stuff, you have to "make it work", it's not (most of time) working out of the box. Then, it may fail when you update since it's not "supported". With HCL server. Just FYI, I'm not trying to sell you unRAID, I love ESXI, I run 5 ESXi 6.5 servers and trying to make one with 6.7 that giving me hardtime with the RAID Controller right now. I got unRAID at home: sharing files on the local network, VPN, Plex Server, nextcloud, node-red, GitEA for my "home github", reverse proxy (nginx) for internal website (like home automation NodeRED and GitEA). They are all dockers, the only part I don't use is the "VM" parts, but when I tried, it was working pretty nicely !

That's why I'm asking what he want to do with it, I'm not sur ESXi is the "best way to go". If he want to run ESXi, he might end-up buying a 100$ raid card just to make it run fine... with unraid, he might just go with the onboard SATA ports, then 100$ license is payed!

You are trying to build a server with consumer grade material. There's no official HCL for that. You'll have to either try it or find someone who did it before you. You will most likely have problems detecting drives on this motherboard, so you may need to add an Hardware RAID Adapter. What are you trying to do with ESXi at home ? edit: I'm asking that cause, running ESXi at home is a bit of PITA. It's very picky on the hardware, you'll have to do some drivers injection and will have problems to upgrade. Plus, there's no real "avantages" if you are running only one server (at 3, you could use vSAN and stuff like this). You should take a look at unRAID. I was avoiding unRAID for a long time. As a IT Administrator, I didn't like the "wannabe-raid" that unRAID is using.. but one day I tried to used it since I had problems with my FreeNAS and needed a rebuild. This software is so simple, every problems I had have a very simple solution (for example, my SSD Crashed and I lost all of my Dockers... I just reinstalled all the Dockers from the Template and didnt even have to reconfigure). You can install Dockers in like a couples seconds (very usefull to try applications). You want Plex? Search, click install, done ! I didnt like the "RAID" at first... but it's working very well... and it allow you to grow without having the change the whole RAID stack !

You won't do 100-0% every day. You will do about 100-30%. You could even program it to do a shutdown at 80% is you wish too... It's not "bad" for the battery. It will still last 3-4 years as it should.

@leadeater look like you are right... I see one here on the screenshot of his 2018 lab (same chipset) : https://www.vladan.fr/lab/ edit : Oops, for vSAN only. After a little bit of reading, I think that no LSI card will work in ESXi 6.7 as now, since there's no working SMI-S. But this card might work in 6.5 until it's fixed (the 9211-8i wasnt able to boot in 6.5). There's no "new card", so I'll order one used and try it !

If you want, you can just suggest me a "good card" (no need for vault or cache) around maybe 500$ ? I got 8 x SAS 12 Gbps drives, but would be okay if the card is 6 Gbps, as long as it's ESXI 6.7 friendy !

This is what I'm thinking right now. Proposing price range solution is not the way to go. You need to propose options that fit the need and budjet. If the need dosent match the budjet, you'll have to make a point.

You can use a cronjob to do a "powerdown" command. But I agree with the Above, UPS with automated shutdown would be the best and will add protection to the server. You should already have one !

Simple solution would be to use QNAP/Synology (Atleast 4 ports) NAS with VPN on it and connect everyone to the network share. Cheaper (and better IMO) solution would be to build a unRAID Server and use the NextCloud Docker and openVPN-AS Docker. This solution is better, but require a bit of "it" knowledge (with nextcloud, you may not even have to use a VPN). For the Marketing Deparements here, I got them a 2 ports QNAP TS-251 with 2 x 4TB, backuped into our backup QNAP 12 ports TS-EC1279U-RP with 12 x 3TB, they use the network share directly on there PC. But it's more to put file than "working" on it. Else I would have taked something more powerfull. VPN is done on the Fortigate side.