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    Best Buy : EVGA 600W 80+ Power Supply $39.99 - In Store / Shipping

    Thank! I'm in for 1 too.
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    Help choosing case

    I have been using a pair of Rosewill RSV-L4411 cases to run a pair of servers, 1 replicating to the other for backups. Not long ago I had a power supply in one of them go bad, and it seems to have damaged some components when it went. I have replaced the system board,memory, and some...
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    power supply for a case with just drives in it

    My bad. Mini, Micro, Pico... they all bleed together after a while... Thanks for the replies guys. I'm going to have to try it out just to see what I can do. Which pins should I use on the PSU plug to connect the SPST switch?
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    power supply for a case with just drives in it

    I am looking for a power supply for a case with just drives in it. I have a 1U case that has a 4 bay hot swap SATA setup in it that I'd like to possibly use as a simple drive enclosure for a nas setup. I could put a small MINI itx board in the case, but I'd really like to just use the case's...
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    Building ESXi box, how does this look?

    And just in time I caught this motherboard on NewEgg for $59.99 today as the afternoon "Shell Shocker" deal. That's another $20 saved as it was $79.99 this morning.
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    Building ESXi box, how does this look?

    Looks like about a $50 jump to the i5 2400 would get VT-d. For a general home test environment, is it something I really need to worry about?
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    Building ESXi box, how does this look?

    Nope, the CPU does not. Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d): No
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    Building ESXi box, how does this look?

    I found another thread on here about this Biostar Mobo that indicates VT-D support: Biostar TH67B: http://www.biostar.com.tw/upload/Man...T_110215_B.zip Page 17 of the manual. The picture show:"VT-d [Enabled | Disabled]". It also says:"VT-d This item enables/disables VT-d function. Options...
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    Building ESXi box, how does this look?

    Thanks everyone. I'm not sure I'm too concerned about the VT-D right now. It's just a box to run so I can play with various OSes to keep up with what's going on. One reason I liked this board is the 4 memory slots. I'll start with 2x4GB and when I need more I can add it via the available...
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    Building ESXi box, how does this look?

    I'm looking to build an ESXi box to host some VMs for my home lab. I'm looking to start with a few Windows Server 2003/2008 VMs and a few random others. I will host the VMs on my NAS (SS4200-E). I already have a hard drive, case, power supply and an Intel 1000 GT dual Gigabit NIC (if I...
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    Losing connectivity from ESXi to NAS volume

    Me giving my notice the other day had a little to do with their choice too. :)
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    Losing connectivity from ESXi to NAS volume

    Well, I think that Exchange will be going back to physical box. Since I'm leaving next week and I'm the sole VMware guy, I think they're gonna scrap it all and go the old fashioned way of a room full of boxes. Oh well.
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    Losing connectivity from ESXi to NAS volume

    Um, yes. Whoops. I'm doing a live migration of 1 server now and will do the Exchange later. Trying to beat it up and see if any errors come up.
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    Losing connectivity from ESXi to NAS volume

    we turned on write caching today and since then have not seen a single error. *knocks on wood*
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    Losing connectivity from ESXi to NAS volume

    I used the IOPS calculator found here http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/93438 and came up with these numbers. If that's right, then the Exchange VM is using just over 1/2 of the capacity of the NAS all by itself. Exchange IOPS calculator # Mailboxes 150 Exchange IOPS 75...
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