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I've heard a lot of people argue for zfs over hw raid. So I decided for my esxi server why not. I put two of the same exact model hard drives in my old dell optiplex 790 and I put the usb in and I can't figure out how to do zfs.

Budget (including currency): Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Storage server for my VMware ESXi host Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): My esxi host specs: Supermicro 743 chassis, redundant PWS-920P-SQ PSUs, X9DR3-F, dual xeon E5-2620 (v2) would be adequate, 256 GB RAM, and currenly H700 raid with pairs of 4TB drives in Raid 1 config. (I only want to run Raid 1. Period.) My esxi host runs a small number of VMs: 1x Windows DC, 1x Exchange 2010 singe host, 1x Windows server for fileshare, 1x Windows server for misc things, and 1x Windows 10 desktop. I need to build a storage server for my ESXi host.... My plan is to migrate my VMs from the H700 DAS storage to the storage server. NFS/iSCSI I do not mind what storage networking used. All my servers exist in a 2nd bedroom in an appartment... so no screaming data center fans allowed! (MY Supermicro 743 chassis is heavily modified with noctua fans to provide enough airflow and manage to be quieter than my existing 8x 4TB WDC Gold drives) I regret I waited so long to buy a used Supermicro CSE-846 chassis. A few years ago there were LOTS of options! These days the 846 chassis is rare. I am really impressed with my 2x Super Micro 920W "PWS-920P-SQ" power supplies: 80 Plus Platinum + redundant + quieter than hard drives!!! I like the 846 chassis because it has more drive bays than I need... so I can space out my drives and get air. I also like the 846 chassis because it has A LOT of room inside to swap fans out for quieter ones. Unless I stumble across a left over CSE-846 unicorn of chassis.................... I may need to look for alternatives. Quiet server inspirations:

I’ve been using TrueNAS Core with 4 different Windows 11 VMs (I know not the most recommended) accessible via 6 Zero Clients and 4 Laptops (VMs have multi-users and running RDP Wrapper to achieve this) It was running all good for past 5-6 months but recently it’s been that TrueNAS shutdown the VM on it’s own whenever there is High usage in network shares. So, I’m thinking of shifting to a new platform for the Host OS. I’ve shortlisted three out of many which have support plans and I’ll be okay to take one for a support but not costing 25% of Server Cost per Year Proxmox (have used it multiple times but everytime some error or mis-configuration led me to shift from here, also it’s on a cheaper side for support plans) XCP-NG (have heard alot of good things but never tried it, plans are a bit expensive but I’m okay with it) VMware ESXi (have used it previously liked the way it handled VMs but have 2 problems, one, hardware raid for achieving redundant storage and second, expensive support plans and even the community isn’t that friendly) Now for the Hardware, AMD EPYC 7542 Supermicro H12SSL-I MBD Micron 128GB 3200MT/s ECC Memory (4x 32GB) Samsung 860 Evo 250GB x2 (for Host OS) Gigabyte Aorus 500GB x4 (in Mirror with Stripe) (for VM disks) Intel X710-DA2 10G SFP+ NIC Seagate Exos 10TB x2 (for network shares and local backup) With this kind of Hardware in a single node, what Host OS will be the best option for Virtualisation? (PS - for the single Node there are 2 backups available, one server at my home in different location from the above which will be installed at my office. And second in the cloud with Backblaze B2, obviously encrypted)

Hello everyone, Today I encountered a pretty weird problem trying to install an update(Storcli). esxcli wasn't working as intended as seen below: [root@Lotos-Stambolyiski-H1:/vmfs/volumes/62e3e792-ee3a0ddc-8031-4c5262591d45] e sxcli Usage: esxcli [options] {namespace}+ {cmd} [cmd options] Options: --formatter=FORMATTER Override the formatter to use for a given command. Available formatter: xml, csv, keyvalue --screen-width=SCREENWIDTH Use the specified screen width when formatting text --debug Enable debug or internal use options --version Display version information for the script -?, --help Display usage information for the script [root@Lotos-Stambolyiski-H1:/vmfs/volumes/62e3e792-ee3a0ddc-8031-4c5262591d45] This is an output from a server running ESXI 7.0.3 (OEM Customized for Fujitsu there are also installations which are for Dell). There are no namespaces hence I can't use esxcli for any of it's purposes. The server itself hasn't ever had updates of any kind before. The funny thing is this image that's on the server has a problem whit esxcli. While a server running on the exact same image does not have the problem: [root@Exhibition-H2:/opt/lsi] esxcli Usage: esxcli [options] {namespace}+ {cmd} [cmd options] Options: --formatter=FORMATTER Override the formatter to use for a given command. Available formatter: xml, csv, keyvalue --screen-width=SCREENWIDTH Use the specified screen width when formatting text --debug Enable debug or internal use options --version Display version information for the script -?, --help Display usage information for the script Available Namespaces: daemon Commands for controlling daemons built with Daemon SDK (DSDK). device Device manager commands elxnet elxnet esxcli functionality esxcli Commands that operate on the esxcli system itself allowing users to get additional information. fcoe VMware FCOE commands. graphics VMware graphics commands. hardware VMKernel hardware properties and commands for configuring hardware. iscsi VMware iSCSI commands. network Operations that pertain to the maintenance of networking on an ESX host. This includes a wide variety of commands to manipulate virtual networking components (vswitch, portgroup, etc) as well as local host IP, DNS and general host networking settings. nvme VMware NVMe driver operations. rdma Operations that pertain to remote direct memory access (RDMA) protocol stack on an ESX host. sched VMKernel system properties and commands for configuring scheduling related functionality. software Manage the ESXi software image and packages storage VMware storage commands. system VMKernel system properties and commands for configuring properties of the kernel core system and related system services. vm A small number of operations that allow a user to Control Virtual Machine operations. vsan VMware vSAN commands [root@Exhibition-H2:/opt/lsi] The only difference is those 2 are different hardware configurations the second one is Fujitsu RX100 S8 while the first one is Fujitsu Primergy 1310 M3 Is there any fix for this issue? Does anyone have tips I could use to resolve the issue?

So, I've been running a TrueNAS SCALE server on a small form factor system for about a while now and part of why i went with SCALE over Core (which is admittedly more stable) is its virtualization capabilities. I want to be able to provision and manage my VMs from a desktop client rather than a web interface and libvirt UIs are lacking on Windows with the most prominent variant (QtEmu) having its last modification ~13 years ago. I've found myself comfortable with VMWare Workstation long before I owned servers, when I just started tinkering with virtualization and so I figured I could run an ESXi server within TrueNAS SCALE using QEMU/KVM and manage them from Workstation and so I got myself a copy of ESXi 7.0U3f-20036589 and got started. Immediately problems started to show up, first and foremost, as of this writing, SCALE defaults to i440fx, while online guides which talk about ESXi specify using q35 (source) and ESXi 7 onwards has dropped support for e1000 NICs (source), while SCALE allows you to pick between e1000 and VirtIO (which isn't supported by ESXi) but excludes other supported options (like vmxnet3, e1000e, rtl8139) So naturally I tried using ESXi 6.7.0.update03-14320388 (which should in theory have drivers for e1000 NICs) and got my first purple screen of death. At first I thought this is perhaps because I'm passing through my 11900K directly and so following the guide that talked about q35, I changed it to Westmere but that didn't help. Booting off ESXi 7.0U3f-20036589 will give me a "no supported network card" prompt. I could in theory just modify the VM configuration files to use q35 and vmxnet3 but that doesn't seem to be ideal as TrueNAS stores configuration data in their own databases which will be preferred over manual configuration (as far as I understand what's written) and you're expected to use their APIs to make any modifications (source). I've thought about using the "Community Networking Driver for ESXi" (source) and constructing a custom ISO using PowerCLI but none of them list the 82540EM (the corresponding device emulated by e1000 in QEMU) and even if I wanted to do a hail mary, due to some stuff that I'm barely qualified to make sense out of, the ability to make a custom ISO seems unlikely (source). So I return from my slumber to ask for tech tips. How do I leverage TrueNAS SCALE APIs to modify VM configurations in the "intended(TM)" manner.

Good evening everyone, I've got an issue with a new pfsense router I'm setting up in my apartment and I'm wondering if you might be able to and interested in giving me a hand with an issue I'm having. I have ESXi running on one of my servers, and a vm of pfsense on that. My ISP locks each apartment down to one MAC address per apartment, so this evening I gave them a call and changed the MAC address to the one on the dedicated NIC I'll be using for my WAN interface. I set up pfsense so it's all up and running and visible on the LAN, however for some reason I can't figure out, It won't connect to the WAN. If you have any ideas, it would be greatly appreciated! Here's the breakdown of the setup: My isp jack is plugged into a dedicated single port 1gig NIC with the MAC ending in 63:e3. I have ESXi set with only pfsense using that NIC. In the virtual switch, I made sure the mac address is the same one that ends in 63:e3 In pfsense, I set it up to be the gateway with the wan port being the NIC that ends in 63:e3, and made sure to set the MAC address in pfsense to 63:e3. On a completely different NIC, I set up the lan. Pfsense boots, acts normal, can manage everything on the lan, but can't connect to the WAN. I can see pfsense receives one packet from my isp, as pfsense keeps sending more and more. I have tried everything I can think of however it still won't connect, and my isp is absolute that it's not on their end. Thank you so much for you time! Samuel

Hi everyone I'm about to renew my homelab environnement with new hardware I got, but I'm struggling on which solution I should go. I currently have 2 devices in my homelab : - One proxmox server (Dell working station - Intel xeon E5649 6C/12T - 24Gb ram - 2 HDD slots only) . This server is working good but is a little bit small (mainly in Ram) for my VMS (Domotic system, Docker containers, camera system and lab machines) - One homemade TrueNas (Celeron Gold 4C/4T - 32Gb ram - 2*120Gb ssd - 8*2Tb HDD).This server is not in good shape and is close to break. SSDs are noname and old and Some HDDs is already reporting SMART errors - I don't rely on the NAS anymore. I recently had my hand on a refurbished Dell R710 (2* Xeon E5645 6C/12T - 128Gb ram) and I plan to purchase some disks for it. I was planning to put both the NAS and the Virtualiser to the R710, but I'm not sure which solution I should go as base operating system. Plan 1 : Running ESXi This solution is my preferred plan as I'm more familiar with ESXi than Proxmox. I would then have to migrate my Proxmox VMs to the ESXi and create a new virtual machine for a new TrueNAS Plan 2 : Proxmox This plan is to keep the current VMs and just move them. I would anyhow have to create the TrueNAS VM Plan 3 : TrueNas As TrueNAS is able to run VMs, I have to consider this situation but i read it is not always a good plan as TrueNAS is not ment to be a virtualiser. But this would be at the cost of loosing the features of a true virtualiser (VM migration, backups, Management, ... ) Does anyone have an opinion on those plans or even another plan I did not considered ? Regards Dergonic

I just wanted to toss this topic out there to make sure I'm not overlooking something obvious with my setup and make sure I'm not missing anything before I move onto something else. Right now my setup is as follows: Dell R620 with dual E5-2690 CPUs 16x16GB of RAM H710P (currently in IT mode but I've tried this all in regular non-IT mode too) 8x SSDs (For RAID) 1x HDD (bulk storage) 1x SSD (ESXi install some VM storage) Problem: I've benchmarked, through dd, hdparm, crystaldiskmark, and other tools, the 8x SSDs as standalone disks and I get expected performance for SATA SSDs. The issue comes in when I try to RAID two or more of the 8x SSDs together. I've put them in RAID 10 and RAID 0 and no matter what I do (explained below) I cannot get any additional performance out of the drives, period, when added to a VM. What I've tried: Create a RAID 0 on the H710p in Dell firmware mode and passed through the entire disk to the VM as a VMFS6 Create a RAID 0 on the H710p in Dell firmware mode and passed through the entire disk to the VM as a raw disk Create a RAID 10 on the H710p and pass through as above (VMFS6 and raw disk) Make each disk as a single disk RAID 0 in Dell firmware mode and pass through entire disk in both VMFS6 and raw disks and make a RAID in the VM Converted the H710p to IT mode so it's in HBA mode and tried passing through each disk as a VMFS6 and raw disk and creating a software raid in the VM. Am I missing something obvious or is this expected? I even tried wiping my ESXi 7 install and moving down to 6.7 in hopes that maybe on 6.7 a vmklinux driver might work better than the native driver when forcing mpt2sas over lsi_msgpt2 native driver but to no avail. Tagging @leadeater as I know you work with servers a good bit.

I am going to build a powerful workstation based on AMD Threadripper Pro 3975WX and ASUS Pro-WS-WRX80E-SAGE-SE-WIFI motherboard. The idea is to have a virtualized environment created by means of VMware ESXi (the latest version) to be hosting guest systems like Windows, Linux, etc. And here comes my problem: I asked an official VMware distributor if ESXi is supported by the a.m. platform and I got the official list of processors compatibility - AMD Threadripper Pro 3975WX is NOT listed (what I knew already before). Based on my experience I know ESXi works on some platforms not officially supported but the level of investment is the reason that I need to be 100% sure that I will get what I need. Does anybody have an experience in such a configuration or may confirm it will work like intended?

Hello everyone, I want a OS that is as light as possible for me to run windows 10 and a Ubuntu instance on a VM. What are the recommended OS? Currently I'm looking at ESXi and/or proxmox so anyone with experience with these can you please review it. I would prefer an easy to use solution but I'm fine with ones that require programming/CLI control Thanks! *Edit: I need it to work on 1 device and also need GUI to work

Been banging my head against wall all night trying to get a gpu working on esxi tried gtx 760 and then i read that NVidia is evil and blocks consumer grade cards from VMs so I tried an rx 470 both get error 43 any ideas or should i just give up now? My plan was to use 2 gtx 1070s because I already have a couple kicking around but looks like NVidia is out of the question. I'm not ready to invest in more amd cards until I have some proof of concept. any help would be great.

Hello, should I buy older whole server with two Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4, 128GB DDR4 RAM or new only CPU, RAM, MB AMD RYZEN 9 3900X with 64 GB DDR4 RAM. PSU and case I already have. Priced roughly the same. It will run vmware ESXi with virtualized minecraft servers, web and DB server, teamspeak server and OMV NAS. Thank you

Hello Everyone looking for a suggestion here.I am planning on to assemble a Gamng/esxi machine. CPU: AMD 3900x/3950x MOBO:X570 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB3 RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 64GB (2 x 32GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) Desktop Memory Model F4-3200C16D-64GVK GPU: 2070/2080 Super I already have a ssd and hdd from old machine to use. Case:Fractal Design Node 202 Case+750W PSU I want this to be as minimal as it can be in terms of space. Looking for suggestions here or your feedback to how I should proceed. Thanks in advance

I'm trying to run OpenWRT on ESXi however I'd like to have all my ethernet ports as LAN/WAN, is there a way so that i can setup the web management so that i can access the management website from any computer connected to openwrt?

Hi Guys, I am trying to move out of ESXi (licensing and support is killing me) and into Proxmox but I dont have another host to install Proxmox and migrate the VMs. I use an IBM x3550 server with a LSI RAID controller for storage. 1) Is there anyway where I can remove ESXi and install Proxmox and connect it to storage? 2) I use Veritas Backup Exec for backups. Can I backup the ESXi VMs and restore onto Proxmox? 3) Can I do a Proxmox VM on ESXi and migrate all the VMs and then dump Proxmox onto the bare metal? Please advise. Best regards, Gdcrocx

Okay this is a weird one. I am reconfiguring my ESXi 6.7.0 Update 2 (Build 13006603) host to run the OS on a small flash drive instead of a SATA hard drive so I can keep it separate from my datastore. All of my VMs are migrated and stored on a new hard drive. I then plug in a 64GB USB 3.0 drive and am able to install ESXi on it. The problem is now that when I reboot the system, ESXi seems to reset to factory settings. All of my settings go away including my VMWare license key, my created users, my VM registrations, and my management network settings. It reverts from Static to DHCP and resets the hostname and DNS configuration. This problem never occurred when ESXi was installed on a SATA drive (which was running 6.7 [not Update 2]) but has consistently reverted all of these settings on reboot since migrating to the flash drive. Anyone else ever experience this? Am I better off using a smaller SATA drive to store ESXi on if it avoids this problem or is this an indication of something else?

Hi, i'm looking at a replacement SAN for our esxi hosts, we have about 20 vm's running between 2 hosts, currently using a 4Gb link direct to the SAN, however.. our SAN is due to be replaced and repurposed and i'm looking at upgrading to 10Gb Ethernet direct to the hosts with at least 36TB of Storage with possibility to expand if needed. i've had some quotes back for just over 10k in GBP, and would like to see if i can do better, i'm not mega familiar with what sans are out there and which ones to avoid, so i'm really looking for recommendations, it must have ideally quad 10gb ethernet, at least 2U, but can be larger if needed doesn't matter. reliable and robust for 24/7 running, obviously the configuration of the actual array will be decided one we know storage capacity and amount of drives. this is for a educational environment not for myself, so it MUST be reliable. Cheers guys !

Hi all. I'm planning a new build to update my old home ESXI system with something much better. My current system is: quad-core Q6600 4gb of DDR2 ram 1TB SATA HD 2 Intel 1Gbit nics An old Nvidia card This thing is eating power, 140w of power and it feels like this is at idle as the two running hosts are not doing much. The new spec I am aiming for: 6 - 8 cores minimum 16 - 32gb of ram 1 - 2 NVMe M.2 drives 256GB is loads of space Onboard simple graphics out of band KVM management over IP 2 x 10Gbit nics 1 x PCI slot Case, mini-ITX size 1u rack Cooling, Passive if possible and fanless I don't want much do I What I have learnt so far: An Intel i7 7740x or an AMD Ryzen 1700x could be good options for a processor. Is an Atom C3758 a bad idea I should look at an 80 Plus gold or better PSU SSD's will greatly help my Power consumption targets I'm kind of looking for a lower cost more mainstream, better ESXI supported Supermicro A2SDi-H-TP4F or Gigabyte MA10-ST0. Apart from the cost and the processor type these board ticks all the boxes. My questions: Which processor should I be looking for? I'm looking for a high core count with hypervisor support that is very power efficient Once the CPU is selected we can look for a motherboard but do we have any combinations known to be low power high performance Is there a system builder who specialises in low power high-performance systems Does anyone know of a specialist website where low power high performance is their game? Any support here is well received, this should be a fun build. So team, what do we think? Thanks

So I'm trying to get a DHCP and DNS server running within vSphere. Problem is there was a MikroTik device handing out DHCP and DNS before. I turned off those services on the MikroTik, spun up the VM but it can't even consistently ping the MikroTik. I'm at a loss and don't know what it is. I have a feeling it has to be with the config in vSphere. HELP

Hey, planning to build a mini-server to run multiple VMs (none of which is for storage). Currently my build is this: PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant Type Item Price CPU AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2 GHz 6-Core Processor €147.90 @ Alternate Motherboard Gigabyte - GA-A320M-S2H Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard €56.85 @ Amazon Deutschland Memory Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2400 Memory €106.00 @ Amazon Deutschland Video Card Zotac - GeForce GT 710 1 GB PCIE x1 Video Card €51.90 @ Caseking Case BitFenix - Prodigy M Midnight Black MicroATX Mini Tower Case €85.00 Power Supply be quiet! - Pure Power 11 300 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply €47.90 @ Caseking Wired Network Adapter Intel - EXPI9301CT PCI-Express x1 1000 Mbit/s Network Adapter €35.72 @ Senetic Other Dawicontrol DC-624e RAID 4-Kanal SATA 6G Blister LP €59.83 Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total €591.10 Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-27 16:24 CET+0100 Before I go any further, wanted to ask if anyone has better experience than me with Ryzen and ESXi compatibility, as well as compatible RAID Controllers. Not sure about the one I included in the build. I'm open for any suggestions and recommendations Thank you!

Hi, This will be my ongoing thread where I'll post my hardware and software considerations prior to purchase to get feedback from the forum. Anyway, this post is just here to get thought process started. The esxi server will host my development and proof of concept, training/learning for Oracle EBS Application installations and their corresponding database VMs along with subversion repository, plexmediaserver, etc. Feel free to comment or give ideas or suggestions at any time. Thanks!

So I have assembled a machine that I am using as a VMWare ESXI (v 6.7) host. I have successfully installed a Windows 10 VM on said host and it powers on and runs as one would expect. I then attempted a Ubuntu VM (18.04) and it successfully installs but after about a minute of uptime after the initial installation, the VM suddenly powers off and any attempts to power it on again result in this error: "The operation is not allowed in the current state". The current state is Powered Off. My Windows 10 VM still works just fine. I've tried Ubuntu 18.04 as well as CentOS 7.5 and get the same result after creating VMs using both. Any ideas here?

Hi everyone. For a really long time, I have been thinking of building a lab at home for learning and gaining some hands on experience. To be better at my day job, I need to gain experience with Red Hat System Administration, Networking, VMWare ESXI, Mongodb, Sybase, LDAP, Oracle SGD, Tomcat, NAS and many other things. We are a very small team and take care of the whole infrastructure. I also want to study for the below certifications which will help me with my day job and future. (RHCE, RHCSA, CEH, CISSP, CISM). I don't have much knowledge about Networking. I want to setup routers, firewall, pfsense and make a setup with DMZ and stuff to learn about security. A year ago, I got a job at a finance corporation as Tech Support Engineer where I don't have any access to anything. I cannot learn or experiment anything at work. I am now put into a Cloudera Apache Hadoop Project. I need to build clusters with at least 8 to 10 machines. (1 Management node, 2 Master nodes, 6 to 7 Worker nodes - All these nodes which will be VMs require at least 16 to 18 GM RAM) I am going to to have to build a server to install Cloudera's Apache Hadoop Distribution and do a lot of experimenting at home. So, I will be needing a server with a lot of RAM so that I can spin up a lot of VMs and allocate a good chunk of RAM to each VM. I need a setup to learn about things used at work and also learn about things I am interested in. I didn't want to waste time researching on a motherboard and CPU that will support ESXI. So, I looked at the below server and bid $680 on it. Someone just outbid me. I live in a very small apartment and don't want to get rack servers which are going to be very loud. But if there are no other options I will have to get a rack server. I am willing to spend up to $2000 to $3000 because this will help me with doing well at my day job and also get some certifications. I also thought about buying the below ESXI supported motherboard and CPU to build a home server. I see that the below motherboards are supported. Partner Name Model CPU Series Supported Releases Acer Inc. Altos R360 F3 Intel Xeon E5-2600-v4 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 Acer Inc. Altos R380 F3 Intel Xeon E5-2600-v4 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 Advantech Corporation ASMB-815T2 Intel Xeon Platinum 8100 (Skylake-SP) Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 Advantech Corporation ASMB-825T2 Intel Xeon Platinum 8100 (Skylake-SP) Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 Advantech Corporation ASMB-925T2 Intel Xeon Platinum 8100 (Skylake-SP) Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 Advantech Corporation ASMB-935T2 Intel Xeon Platinum 8100 (Skylake-SP) Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 Advantech Corporation ASMB-975T2 Intel Xeon Platinum 8100 (Skylake-SP) Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 Advantech Corporation ECU-4784 Intel Xeon E3-1500-v5 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 AIC Inc. 21D-B312-03 Intel Xeon E5-2600-v4 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 AIC Inc. 21D-B312-04 Intel Xeon E5-2600-v3 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 AIC Inc. LIBRA Intel Xeon E5-2600-v4 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 bluechip Computer AG bluechip SERVERline R52302i Intel Xeon E5-2600-v4 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 Intel Intel S2600CWTS Intel Xeon E5-2600-v4 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 Intel Intel S2600WT2 Intel Xeon E5-2600-v4 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 Intel S2600CW2 Intel Xeon E5-2600-v4 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 Intel S2600CWTR Intel Xeon E5-2600-v4 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 Intel S2600KP Intel Xeon E5-2600-v4 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 Intel S2600KPF Intel Xeon E5-2600-v4 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 Intel S2600TP Intel Xeon E5-2600-v4 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 Intel S2600TPF Intel Xeon E5-2600-v4 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 Intel S2600WTT Intel Xeon E5-2600-v4 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 Maguay 211-x4-2U Intel Xeon E5-2600-v4 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 Maguay 212-E5-2U Intel Xeon E5-2600-v4 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 TAROX Systems & Services GmbH ParX G5 Intel Xeon E5-2600-v4 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 TAROX Systems & Services GmbH ParX R1082i G5 Intel Xeon E5-2600-v4 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 TAROX Systems & Services GmbH ParX R2082i G5 Intel Xeon E5-2600-v4 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 Tyan Computer S5630 Intel Xeon Gold 6100/5100, Silver 4100, Bronze 3100 (Skylake-SP) Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 Tyan Computer S7100 Intel Xeon Gold 6100/5100, Silver 4100, Bronze 3100 (Skylake-SP) Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 Tyan Computer S7106 Intel Xeon Gold 6100/5100, Silver 4100, Bronze 3100 (Skylake-SP) Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 Tyan Computer S8026 AMD EPYC 7XX1 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 Tyan Computer S8026GM2NRE AMD EPYC 7XX1 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 Wortmann AG TERRA-SERVER-7230-G2-(2x10GbE) Intel Xeon E5-2600-v4 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 Wortmann AG TERRA-SERVER-7420-G2-(2x10GbE) Intel Xeon E5-2600-v4 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 Wortmann AG TERRA_SERVER_7120_G2_(2x10GbE) Intel Xeon E5-2600-v4 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 Wortmann AG TERRA_SERVER_7120_G2_(2x1GbE) Intel Xeon E5-2600-v4 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 Wortmann AG TERRA_SERVER_7130_G2_(2x10GbE) Intel Xeon E5-2600-v4 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 Wortmann AG TERRA_SERVER_7130_G2_(2x1GbE) Intel Xeon E5-2600-v4 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 Wortmann AG TERRA_SERVER_7220_G2_(2x10GbE) Intel Xeon E5-2600-v4 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 Wortmann AG TERRA_SERVER_7220_G2_(2x1GbE) Intel Xeon E5-2600-v4 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 Wortmann AG TERRA_SERVER_7420_G2_(2x1GbE) Intel Xeon E5-2600-v4 Series ESXi 6.7 6.5 U2 6.5 U1 6.5 I was looking at these boards that are compatible. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/compare-products.html/servers?productIds=88276,88275,88278,88273 Also looking at these processors. https://ark.intel.com/products/series/91287/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-v4-Family It would be helpful if someone can guide me choose the Case, PSU, RAM. Is it worth it? Should I build a Home server or should I be buying an old rack server from ebay?

Hello everyone! I'm trying to get NVidia's GT710 graphics card working in esxi 6.7 on a Dell PowerEdge R710 machine. The Dell PowerEdge R710 has 4 PCIE x8 slots available for extensions. I currently have 1 quad ethernet NIC card in 1 of those 4 slots and the other 3 each have a NVidia GT 710 2GB PNY graphics card installed. I did manage to get the pass-through enabled on the host machine and get the virtual machine to install the NVidia drivers and there is no code 43 or BSOD with error 116. The issue that is occurring is that I cannot seem to get the HDMI or VGA ports to show any kind of signal output. The DVI port works and shows a signal, but the HDMI and VGA are blank and the virtual machine doesn't even detect that there's a monitor plugged in. Am I doing something wrong or is this something NVidia intentionally did to prevent end users like myself on low budgets from being able to experiment with virtualization and pass-through? All I want is a virtual machine system that allows any OS with GPU-passthrough so I can run my code editors and have 2-3 "dev" machines that can be used for developing and testing code before doing a git commit/push or installing the server programs on my main rig. Thanks to anyone who can help!

Hi LTT community, I'm about to build my first home server that will hold multiple VM for all kind of stuff : - NAS (FreeNAS) - Local cloud (owncloud) - Routeur (PfSense) - Windows + security software (managing multiple wireless camera in the house) I would need a little bit of help to understand some of the concept related to virtualization. First, I understand that you need to install an Hypervisor (sort of main OS that's taking care of all the VM) Do you have any recommendations for a beginner (Esxi, unraid) ? Then I would like all my VMs to access and to write on my RAID storage. But my RAID will be created from the FreeNAS VM using ZFS technology. Is it possible to create a RAID using a specific VM and to share it across multiple VM ? Thank you.