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VM Hypervisor
Hypervisor of choice?
Thinking of rebuilding my main home server and seriously thinking of running everything as VM. We run Xen at the office and I've played with ESXi before. Do any of the solutions out there allow the presentation of physical disks directly to the VM?
I'll probably run 3 VMs or so on my i5/16gb host so nothing insane. The key is going to be whether I can run flexraid on one of the VM's and it see the physical disks.
Tue Feb 24, 2015 11:02 pm
Menos
Broke My Labia
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Ok, apparently the flexRAID guys have a complete walkthrough of using ESXi and flexraid. Might have to look at that.
Tue Feb 24, 2015 11:05 pm
Sevnn
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Keep us updated, I'm very curious how it works out.
Wed Feb 25, 2015 11:45 am
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Wed Feb 25, 2015 11:49 am
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Broke My Labia
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Not going as well as I hoped. The SATA expander I am using is not supported by ESXi. Gonna look at Xenserver tomorrow. May just order a compatible SAS card.
Fri Feb 27, 2015 2:05 am
LightningCrash
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Re: VM Hypervisor
Menos wrote: Hypervisor of choice?
Thinking of rebuilding my main home server and seriously thinking of running everything as VM. We run Xen at the office and I've played with ESXi before. Do any of the solutions out there allow the presentation of physical disks directly to the VM?
I'll probably run 3 VMs or so on my i5/16gb host so nothing insane. The key is going to be whether I can run flexraid on one of the VM's and it see the physical disks.
I run ESXi at home. I put Sophos UTM as my firewall/router.
I pass through an RDM (individual disk) to my file server VM, which runs Ubunter + ZFS.
If you have VT-d or IOMMU on the chipset then you can pass the HBA through to the VM directly. Unfortunately the consumer coverage for VT-d seems to be pretty low.
You may be able to find someone who has made ESXi drivers for non-HCL devices.
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