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November 13, 2012, 5:47 pm
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Thank you for posting these details/experiences hyperwhat . Personally I found these kinds of posts really helpful earlier in the year when everyone was in the dark about what might even partially work for a whitebox server (what with all the new processors and motherboards) and BIOS updates were coming out weekly!

 

Just one hint for others: with vSphere 5 we can customise the ISO, e.g with extra drivers, using VMware's ESXi Image Builder CLI, so for people who are building a whitebox server to perhaps broaden their skills with vSphere it might be worth using that approach. It wasn't that tricky, but I must admit I can't find the instructions I followed . If you just want to get something working quickly though the 3rd party ESXi Customizer does seem to have a good track record and plenty of blog posts about using it.

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Re: vt-d enabled Ivy Bridge motherboard recommendations

December 19, 2012, 11:25 am
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Re: vt-d enabled Ivy Bridge motherboard recommendations

December 22, 2012, 1:53 pm
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Hi Greg

 

I have the exact same mobo (ga-z77x-d3h) and can't for the life of me figure out which VIB to use for the atheros nic.

Could you please point me in the right direction? I really don't want to have to go buy another nic

 

Thanks!

 

Simon

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Re: vt-d enabled Ivy Bridge motherboard recommendations

December 23, 2012, 1:23 am
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Hi mate!

 

Well Atheros VIB does not work at all...

NIC gets recognised, but no traffic comes trough so it is useless...

I use Intel gigabit NIC instead...

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Re: vt-d enabled Ivy Bridge motherboard recommendations

December 23, 2012, 2:41 am
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Hi Grega,

 

Thanks for the quick response

However, this could be a mistaken identity issue

 

I was actually referring to GregecSLO's post:

http://communities.vmware.com/message/2132377#2132377

GregecSLO wrote:

If someone interested, Marvell controller on this MB has native support since 5.1 but Atheros NIC has to be enabled with VIB install and then it also works ]


 

Are you super sure about atheros not working at all?

 

Also, is the NIC you got that Intel Pro/1000 PT one, or something else (cheaper maybe.. )

 

BTW - I am new to ESXi, and as yet have not even able to complete a basic install (gives up when it can't detect the network adapter)

 

Thanks again,

 

Simon

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Re: vt-d enabled Ivy Bridge motherboard recommendations

December 23, 2012, 6:14 am
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Hi!

 

I`m the same person, but I have work and home accounts here on VmWare

 

Marvell controler gets recognised, but disks attached to it are not

Atheros LAN is recognised so you can install ESX but passes no traffic trough

 

I have Intel card you mentioned and its working great!

 

But I think that Atheros LAN worked on ESXi 4.1...

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Re: vt-d enabled Ivy Bridge motherboard recommendations

December 23, 2012, 12:54 pm
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Ah ok! Thanks again for your help and the additional tip re the marvel controller

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Re: vt-d enabled Ivy Bridge motherboard recommendations

January 6, 2013, 2:27 pm
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Re: vt-d enabled Ivy Bridge motherboard recommendations

January 6, 2013, 5:09 pm
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I found ESXi 5.0 needed update 1 to see the Atheros 8151 on my Gigabyte Z77-D3H m/b.

ESXi 5.1 worked fine with net-atl1c-1.0.1.14.x86_64.vib and ESXi customizer.

Using the Intel i7 3770 chip and 32GB RAM as a home lab env.

I found XenServer 6.0 needed additional driver support to see the NIC.

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Re: vt-d enabled Ivy Bridge motherboard recommendations

January 7, 2013, 2:51 am
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This is very strange. The two motherbords (GA-Z77X-UD3H and GA-Z77-D3H) are practically identical from the chipset point of view - http://www.gigabyte.com.ro/products/comparison/list.aspx?ck=2&pids=4441,4327

Despite this, yours installs the Esxi 5 with the Atheron driver without a problem, but mine doesn't seem to find the network board.

Do you still have the custom iso for the esxi 5.1 used in the installation?

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Re: vt-d enabled Ivy Bridge motherboard recommendations

January 7, 2013, 5:44 am
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Yes, I do still have the resultant ESXi5.1 iso with the Atheros driver added.

I've attached the log file.

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Re: vt-d enabled Ivy Bridge motherboard recommendations

January 14, 2013, 1:16 am
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Hi gprentice,

 

How to use your log file to successfully install ESXi 5.1 on GA-Z77X-D3H ? I am stuck at Network Adapter

 

Would appreciate your sharing on how to successfully install ESXi 5.1.

 

Thanks

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Re: vt-d enabled Ivy Bridge motherboard recommendations

January 14, 2013, 6:46 am
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The ESXi 5.1 iso does not include our NIC drivers, so we have to add them using a slipstream tool.

 

Use your original ESXi 5.1 ISO and the NIC driver to create a 'customized'  install ISO which includes the NIC driver.

 

The ESXi Customizer was found here:  http://www.v-front.de/p/esxi-customizer.html

 

The driver ( net-atl1e-1.0.1.14.x86_64.vib) was found here: http://www.aligrant.com/?p=news/archive&v=2012-03

 

The log file I posted was included with the end result ISO file.

 

I used the new ISO to install to a USB thumb drive, and it works well.   Only needed 1gb USB space.

 

Also added Openfiler v2.99 as a VM to create shared storage. (NFS share or iSCSI)

 

Added disks (physical RDM) for Openfiler using: http://vm-help.com/esx40i/SATA_RDMs.php

 

Added another ESXi host and created a cluster for my home lab.

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Re: vt-d enabled Ivy Bridge motherboard recommendations

January 14, 2013, 7:45 am
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Hi gprentice,

 

Wow, you are light years ahead of me, I'll try out the steps and I'm sure I'll have more questions come to you and this community

 

Thanks

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Re: vt-d enabled Ivy Bridge motherboard recommendations

January 15, 2013, 3:25 pm
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Moved the post to the community hardware section of the forum

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vt-d enabled Ivy Bridge motherboard recommendations

May 10, 2012, 3:02 pm
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I'm finding it difficult to find solid information about vt-d support on IB boards and was hoping the community could confirm/deny support on the current offerings.

 

The only manufactuer I've seen that claims support on any of their boards is ASRock; the manuals for the majority of their lineup mention it in passing.

 

I found this forum post which seems to indicate GIGABYTE is working on vt-d support and offer beta BIOS versions to enable it at your own peril: http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/48493-x58a-ud7-rev1-vt-d.html

 

As for ASUS, they seem to be claiming that vt-d support on newer chipsets is "impossible due to hardware limitations". Some useful information can be found on this forum: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1688360&page=6

The ASUS rep indicates that only Q-series chipsets were validated by Intel to be fully vt-d capable. Apparently ASUS is having trouble passing Intel's vt-d conformance test suite, which leads me to question whether or not ASRock is being disingenuous about their claim to support vt-d; evidently at least some people have had success with ASRock's boards, however.

 

Aside from motherboards, if anyone can offer advice on setting up VGA passthrough under ESXi, I'd be very appreciative. I know this isn't an officially supported feature, but it seems others have gotten it to work, and I'm willing to put in the time to make it work for me. I've heard various reports that nVidia cards are no good for this, but all I have right now is a GTX 460. I'd like not to have to buy a new card unless necessary; can anyone out there report success with this card and/or other nVidia cards?

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Re: vt-d enabled Ivy Bridge motherboard recommendations

May 10, 2012, 4:57 pm
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This thread seems to sum it up nicely: http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t=930620&page=101

 

"None of the ASUS Z77 motherboards support VT-d. Not even the $450 "workstation" model. Or at least, VT-d is not mentioned anywhereby ASUS.
Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H supports VT-d, UD3H does not. I'm not paying an extra $100 for VT-d.
Most (or all) MSI Z77 motherboards support VT-d but may not support offset voltage or turbo overclocking.
Most (or all) ASRock Z77 motherboards support VT-d, support offset voltage, and turbo overclocking.

 

It really boggles the mind how ASRock has seemingly got more things right more than ASUS, Gigabyte and MSI."

 

I love that last line; something extremely strange is going on here =/

 

Anyway, I think I'm going to go ahead and give ASRock a shot. I'm leaning toward their Mini ITX offering: http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=Z77E-ITX

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Re: vt-d enabled Ivy Bridge motherboard recommendations

May 17, 2012, 4:30 pm
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So I have the Gigabyte z77x-ud5h and unfortunatley neither of the NIC are supported by the latest build of ESXI 5.0 U1. I am trying to find a very minimal build myself that supports VT-D as it's going to be running 24/7.

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May 19, 2012, 1:33 am
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I'm trying to build a white box ESXi server with VT-d so I can do some I/O tests with VMFS5 vs RDM (http://communities.vmware.com/message/2025131). I have bought a i7-3770 which definitely has VT-d enabled (note the 3770K doesn't) and was going to use an ASUS P8Z77V-LX motherboard until I read this post and others suggesting ASUS don't have VT-d support.

 

Edit: ASUS note: I found http://support.asus.com/Search/KDetail.aspx?SLanguage=en&no=FAAEFAAE-E173-829C-A73E-719972F26277&t=2 which says "For the P8B WS motherboard, you have to update the BIOS to 0604 or later version to support the VT-d function. And you can enable the function in Advanced > System Agent Configuration > VT-d of BIOS menu." Unfortunately to run an IB processor you need the new (16 May) BIOS 2009 version but to upgrade the MB from 0904 (previous version) you need a SandyBridge processor...

 

So, whilst it's more expensive, the Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H does seem to support VT-d (see page 54 of manual v1003 http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4139#manual). Norbs - have you had VT-d successfully working (e.g. USB pass through into a VM)?

 

Now, looking at NICs - the Gigabyte website and manual it doesn't give the NIC chips, only:

  • 1 x Atheros GbE LAN chip (10/100/1000 Mbit) (LAN1)
  • 1 x Intel GbE LAN chip (10/100/1000 Mbit) (LAN2)

 

There's a discussion here where someone has had trouble with the drivers for a physcial OS install. Gigabyte only have Windows drivers to download at the moment. Any clues as to what the NIC chips are? It might be possible to include the drivers from somewhere in an oem.tgz if we can work out what they are.

 

Norbs - apart from this is ESXi 5 working OK?

 

Message was edited by: Simon.H - added ASUS note

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Re: vt-d enabled Ivy Bridge motherboard recommendations

May 19, 2012, 3:53 am
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Looks like the Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H also supports VT-d, although I can't see it mentioned in the v1003 manual:

http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/48393-does-ga-z77x-ud3h-support-vt-d.html

It's got one NIC: Atheros GbE LAN chip (10/100/1000 Mbit)

 

Actually it seems like most of the GA Z77 boards may support VT-d: D3H, UD3H, UD5H. I'm now considering the GA-Z77X-D3H and it specifically mentions VT-d in the v1004 manual for it.

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