kdewitt
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I haven't yet started to work on getting my drives mirrored as we're in a bit of design mode and this system is mostly used for getting several key apps up and running. We're building out a virtual office concept with it and for that I'm managing desktops of Windows 2008 & Mac's.

I had the system working along fine once I solved these initial issues for the SATA controller and enet's (yes both work now.) There is another key switch you might want to enable and that is in the Bios settings - I'm fuzzy on where exactly now because it's been quite a while but I think it's in the Bios settings under "General" settings (whatever that 1st screen is...)

In order for one to load up Windows 2008, it must run in 64bit mode and in order to get that working, you'll have to enable "virtual mode" on the processors.

My next move is to get the mirrored drives working for this system and then get my 2nd Supermicro MB X7DVL-E up and running. As you've no doubt started to find out... ESXi is sort a a teaser "free" app. Once you begin to get a network humming along, you'll really want to figure out what friend you can bug for a licensed version of the VI3 console as w/ that one, now you can do some cool stuff like Backup and vMotion - or at least that's my impression.

NOTE - "my impression" really means I may not know what I'm talking about as I haven't yet 1) built it, 2) broken it 3) fixed it again! :smileygrin:

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