Re: vt-d enabled Ivy Bridge motherboard recommendations
All (and hellesangels) I answered my own question regarding which SATA ports to use to on the Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H motherboard. The internal gray ports are the SATA ports on the Marvell 88SE9172...
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i want to get a shuttle box with a Z77 chip motherboard and i7-3770 cpu. and after reading this thread, i assume, that combo will work fine with ESXi. my question is regarding a CPU with embedded...
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I've got ESXi 5.0u1 running on an Intel DQ77KB motherboard with an I7-3770s CPU inside a min-box M350 case, and it works. I am going to use this in a backup site (my vacation home) for my little...
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@srwsol, someone recently posted this link regarding USB passthrough. not sure if it is relevant to your issue or not: http://communities.vmware.com/message/2121983#2121983 that MB you have has a...
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If you are going to get a micro-atx check the power requirements of the I7-3770 versus the I7-3770s relative to the power supply you will have and the number of fans. I ended up going with the 3770s,...
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regarding the PCI(e) crashes with ESXi 5.1, i'll go ahead and order my hardware and install 5.0 if a fix isn't available by the time i put together the harware and test it. its all for home me home...
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Oh, one last thing when you install ESXi. On the DQ77KB there is a bios bug that causes problems booting to GPT partitions, which is the default partition type ESXi 5 creates on a clean install. The...
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@srwsol You said:>> I ended up buying a seperate PCI express USB 3 card, and a PCI express wireless card. These both pass through just fine to the VMs. Can you post the exact make and model of...
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Hi tpsboston: Actually what I bought was a mini pci express card (I saw that I didn't put "mini" on the previous post) as that's the slot that was available on the tiny DQ77KB motherboard. Here's a...
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Configuration will work? PCI-E 2.1 ASUS EAH5450 SILENT/DI/1GD3(LP), 1gb, DDR3, Low Profile, RetWD Caviar Green WD30EZRX, 3tb, HDD, SATA IIICORSAIR XMS3 Classic CMX16GX3M4A1333C9 DDR3- 4x 4gb, 1333,...
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@dimage, the "Q67" chipset is supposed to work, i.e. has VT-d. http://ark.intel.com/products/51997/Intel-Desktop-Board-DQ67SW the "Q77" chipset is listed has working with VT-d and is newer...
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Re: vt-d enabled Ivy Bridge motherboard recommendations
Hi all! So I bought ga-z77x-d3h mobo and Intel CPU (without "K") and VT-D if fully supported on ESXi 5.1 which is great.I installed ESX onto USB 2.0 stick plugged into USB3.0 port. Also doing great Now...
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Hi, just installed 5.1 on Z77M-D3H, using net-atl1e-1.0.1.14.x86_64.vib from here http://www.aligrant.com/?p=news/archive&v=2012-03using esxi-customizer found here...
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Re: vt-d enabled Ivy Bridge motherboard recommendations
Just in case someone is interested in another working "whitebox" config for ESXi 5.1 here is one I've just built for my home lab about 2 month ago.This is a basic build so it hasn't got a decent hard...
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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...
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I have done some quick testing with a ASRock Z77 Pro4-M and documented it here:http://blog.kihltech.com/2012/12/vt-d-verification-on-asrock-z77-pro4-m-2/ All in all, VT-d setting is available and I can...
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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...
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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
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#2132377GregecSLO...
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