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Re: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon

by Contributor in ESXi Discussions
‎11-13-2014 12:15 PM
‎11-13-2014 12:15 PM
Hello ! Just to report success and failures. System: Supermicro X9SRL-F Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 0 @ 3.60GHz 32GB ECC RAM a lot of SATA HDDs ESXi 5.5.0 Hardware for pass-through... See more...
Hello ! Just to report success and failures. System: Supermicro X9SRL-F Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 0 @ 3.60GHz 32GB ECC RAM a lot of SATA HDDs ESXi 5.5.0 Hardware for pass-through: Turks PRO [Radeon HD 6570] uPD720201 USB 3.0 PCI Host Controller Creative SB SB1040 Results of pass-through: uPD720201 USB 3.0 PCI Host Controller - passed OK under Win7, Win8, Gentoo Linux, Ubuntu Linux. But it's impossible to use them with web-cams (the main purpose for them was home CCTV). The work is very unstable with one web-cam. The second web-cam isn't accessible at all. Creative SB - everything is OK under Win7 Radeon HD 6570 - failed to install drivers under Linux. Drivers installed OK under Win7/8, but hypervisor constantly falls into PSOD (it's very very bad for another 17 VMs on it...). I'm searching for stable Radeon card for now (gonna replace desktop with one VM with Videocard and USB-card passed through).

Re: PCI-E SATA pass-through, the disks aren't visible to guest

by Contributor in ESXi Discussions
‎03-10-2014 04:30 AM
‎03-10-2014 04:30 AM
Hello again ! Thanks for tip, I've tried it and it works ok. I've started up Nexenta, created NFS share, connected it to ESXi as a datastore. Migrating 50GB VM from dedicated HDD to NFS was ok... See more...
Hello again ! Thanks for tip, I've tried it and it works ok. I've started up Nexenta, created NFS share, connected it to ESXi as a datastore. Migrating 50GB VM from dedicated HDD to NFS was ok, speed ~150MBs. But when I've tried to start migrated VM there was no luck (VM status is Powered On, but actually there no any reaction from VM). I started to dig deeper. I've tried to migrate that VM back to dedicated HDD. Read speed from Nexenta's NFS became incredibly slow (KBs) and the connection is dropping permanently. 1% of copying took several hours. As I understand, ESXi starting to copy from one DS to another, loses connection, trying to restore it, starting to copy again, etc... There's nothing bad in logs in both ESXi and Nexenta. I have no more idea where to dig to. Maybe someone got ideas ? Thanks. 

Re: PCI-E SATA pass-through, the disks aren't visible to guest

by Contributor in ESXi Discussions
‎02-16-2014 11:54 AM
‎02-16-2014 11:54 AM
Thanks for reply. I'll try it as soon as have some free time...

PCI-E SATA pass-through, the disks aren't visible to guest

by Contributor in ESXi Discussions
‎02-16-2014 10:22 AM
‎02-16-2014 10:22 AM
Hello All ! Setup: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 0 @ 3.60GHz SUPERMICRO X9SRL-F 2x3tb HDD + 1x512GB HDD + 1x120GB SSD 32GB Mem I've tried to pass-through both 6-port and 4-port onboard S... See more...
Hello All ! Setup: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 0 @ 3.60GHz SUPERMICRO X9SRL-F 2x3tb HDD + 1x512GB HDD + 1x120GB SSD 32GB Mem I've tried to pass-through both 6-port and 4-port onboard SATA controllers to  guest OS (Nexenta) one by one. The controllers passed-through (and assigned to Nexenta) w/o any problems, but the HDDs weren't visible to the guest OS. I've tried different combinations of controller/HDD, but no luck. Maybe somebody was in the same situation, how can I fix it ? I'm gonna to try RDM next weekend, but I've read it's not very good solution... Thanks.

Re: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon

by Contributor in ESXi Discussions
‎07-03-2013 12:17 PM
‎07-03-2013 12:17 PM
Well, that page is on my bookmarks already. I wasn't sure it was you

Re: VMDirectPath and ATI Radeon

by Contributor in ESXi Discussions
‎07-03-2013 11:59 AM
‎07-03-2013 11:59 AM
VIntagedon, Could you please display detailed setup of you lab hardware? I'm planning to virtualize XBMC too, so I'm pretty worried about videocard/usb/hdd passthrough. Thanks.

Re: Asus motherboard for virtualization

by Contributor in ESXi Discussions
‎06-07-2013 02:23 PM
‎06-07-2013 02:23 PM
Hello ! I'm looking forward to one of these MBs too. Did you buy that MB finally ? What works and what doesn't ? Thanks!

Re: VMWare ESXi or Linux+Workstation for home server ?

by Contributor in ESXi Discussions
‎05-29-2013 11:10 AM
‎05-29-2013 11:10 AM
Actually, I don't think that nested environment will be fast enough... XBMC inside ESXi will lag on such HW ? Hm...

VMWare ESXi or Linux+Workstation for home server ?

by Contributor in ESXi Discussions
‎05-27-2013 10:59 AM
‎05-27-2013 10:59 AM
Hello ! I'm planning to upgrade my home server (Samba, XBMC, FTP, VPN, torrents) because I need a test farm of VMs and current config doesn't allows to do it. I'm thinking about ASUS Z9PE-D8 ... See more...
Hello ! I'm planning to upgrade my home server (Samba, XBMC, FTP, VPN, torrents) because I need a test farm of VMs and current config doesn't allows to do it. I'm thinking about ASUS Z9PE-D8 WS, Intel Xeon E5-2620 Sandy Bridge-EP, 32GB, 4x2TB 7200rpm, 1x500GB SSD as HW part. I see 2 configurations of SW: 1. VMWare ESXi on usb-stick, SSD for VMs, one VM - OpenIndiana (for ZFS and as a fileserver for other VMs and local network), other VMs - Linux (XBMC), ??? (SAP), several VMs for testing 2. Linux (Gentoo + ZFS) as a main OS, VMWare Workstation over it with all OSes I told above. #2 is clear for me - I have such config right now, everything works ok. Except for ZFS. My Gentoo w/o ZFS now. #1 questions: 1. XBMC media player. Will it work ok in VM over ESXi ? Speed, 3D, audio, video - maybe someone tried it ? 2. HDD DRM for ZFS. As I understand i'll lost such things like realtime snapshotting. It's really no good. Maybe it's better to use ESXi storage mechanism or buy external raid... But I'd like to use ZFS. 3. SAP + DBs + other VMs (Windows too) - speed ? 4. VPNs/Routing between VMs. As I understand, ESXi allows it, Workstation - doesn't. Where I'm wrong or maybe someone tried something of it ? Thanks.