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ATLAS My Virtualized unRAID server
tarataqa:
--- Quote from: HiSoC8Y on July 20, 2012, 02:21:37 AM ---In regards to the motherboard TYAN S5510GM3NR,
reading the reviews on newegg, it seems many people are having issues with this board.
What do you think?
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I got the Tyan S5510GM3NR after John recommended it for an ESXi unRAID server. I've been running it 24/7 for the past eight months. Everything is smooth and sweet. All the nics are easy for a virtual newbie like me to set up. No start up or shutdown issues either. Right now I'm running an unRAID VM, a Win7 VM, a WHS VM, and an OpenVPN appliance using the M1015+expander. It's a beautiful board.:)
prtsmgr:
--- Quote from: heredago on June 27, 2012, 07:08:10 AM ---
--- Quote from: prtsmgr on June 27, 2012, 05:52:33 AM ---
--- Quote from: heredago on June 26, 2012, 07:08:25 PM ---this will look crazy but I can't get my VM to auto-start :'(
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I am interested in this as well. I read that auto-start was broken in the 5.0 Update 1
http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/03/free-esxi-hypervisor-auto-start-breaks-with-50-update-1.html
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THANK YOU, I may not be crazy! I'm effectively running 5.0 Update 1 (VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.0.0.update01-623860.x86_64.iso)
Update 1 was released in March, more than 3 months ago... Why isn't this fixed yet? It's kind of ridiculous!?
I can't revert back as explained in the Blog post as I have a 5.0 Update 1 clean install. There's a sketchy workaround in the comments but I would prefer not to mess with that. So I guess that I will have to start all over from scratch with a 5.0 install (VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.0.0-469512.x86_64.iso)
Should I be careful about anything in doing this? (except for unplugging every drives when re-installing ESXi)
Looking at the Update 1 release notes, I should be fine downgrading; my OSX VM wasn't working anyway..
And then VMware is gonna release Update 2 / a fix in a week haha
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You were right, the fix has been released http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/07/vsphere-hypervisor-auto-start-bug-fixed.html
gbdesai:
Thanks for the heads up. I downloaded and installed the patch, it's a bitch to figure out how to install without the paid Update Manager. This blog post was invaluable... it worked like magic... here's a link in case it helps someone else...
http://www.itadmintools.com/2012/02/howto-patch-vmware-vsphere-esxi-50-free.html
mjorud:
Hi all,
First I will thank you all for a great thread! :)
I'm going to move from a big house to a smaller apartment and to make thing more practical I want to consolidate my servers to one server.
Today unRAID is running on Intel DG43NB, Intel E1400 in a Norco 4220. I was running WHS v1 until 4 months ago when I converted to unRAID. I also have a PowerEdge 2850 running ESXi v4.1 with a few VMs. Both servers are rather noisy (understatement) so they are located in the garage. ;)
The new server will run unRAID, pfSense, Ubuntu Server (PMS, SABnzdb, CrashPlan, MySQL, Transmission/uTorrent) and a few other VMs.
When building the new server I'm basically going to use the parts listed in the first post. Are those parts "up to date"?
My Norco 4220 is old. It does not have the SAS backplane but the SATA backplane instead. Because of this I can't use AOC-SASLP-MV8, right? Or are there adapters that can be used? If not, any recommendations on another card?
I read somewhere that there are memory limits on the free edition of ESXI 5.0. Is that correct?
Jon
shlomiassaf:
Hi
The server is UP and running, turns out that I got the board shipped with bios version 2.0
Unraid is running great!
I gave it 2 GB of ram.
I would like to create a swapfile on an SSD.
Since my unRaid does not have a SSD cache drive (I use WD Black) i would like to ask you guys
do you think it will be ok to RDM my SSD (datasource) and put the swap file on it?
the SSD will contain a WIN7 development evnrionment.
It might kill the SSD?
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