My Current lab:
Dell XPS 710 Quad Core 6700 2.66Ghz
8GB RAM
Promise TX2 controller
EMBEDDED NIC WORKS FINE
Could not get SATA Storage to work. Gave up and put in the promise.
HP NC 7170 Dual Port NIC
Dell XPS 720 H2C (this is also my gaming machine)
8 GB RAM
EMBEDDED NIC WORKS FINE
No local storage
HP NC 7170 Dual Port NIC
Thecus 5200NB Pro
2x1 TB R1 iSCSI targe
2x 750 GB R1 Shared iSCSI - CIFS
Dual 1Gb NICs 802.3ad
2 3COM 4500G 24 port switches
Damn you got a H2C? Thats a nice looking machine, I just read the review over at HotHardware. Very nice cooling setup....:-)
yeah it is a nice machine, i have two nVidia 8800 GTXs in SLI with a CooIT SLI Cooler
CoolIT is actually who designed the H2C cpu cooler.. sadly it is an ESXi machine until I can bring up another whitebox host
Alright... I've got a question for you.
I have an XPS 720 (sadly not a H2C), but I picked it up on the Dell Outlet for around $1050 a year ago.
I've got a Q6600, with 8GB RAM, an some 250GB and 500GB drives.
My only question is... Do you have it setup in a dual boot configuration, or are you using a USB stick to boot ESXi off of?
Jase McCarty
Co-Author of VMware ESX Essentials in the Virtual Data Center
(ISBN:1420070274) from Auerbach
That's really nice setup there...that machine will be a nice whitebox
host...what are you going to be runnin on that VM wise?? I can't wait
for the xeon version of nehalem to see the light of day (1st quarter
09)...love to hear how the VM performance is with those nice new
proc's..:-))
On Dec 23, 2008, at 8:58 PM, Shane6712 <communities-
Hi Jase,
I messed around with trying to get ESX 3.5, U 2 & 3 and 3i Installable going. With ESXi USB, I could boot, mount a VMFS on the SATA and the host would lock up with an APIC error. I didnt spend a lot of time on it so I just put in a Promise TX2 and problem solved.
I got ESX to install only if I disabled USB and used a PS2 keyboard.
I wanted to get away from local storage anyway so I just put up a NAS and I also have an openfiler 2.3 box.
So no, I am not dual-booting, when I do want to boot the 720 to play games, I just remove the USB stick.
Hope this helps,
Shane