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At work I have several VMs that BSOD on startup and never successfully get into Windows again. Got any ideas?

^ I'm impressed.

Thanks for the advice, I've gone for a 64GB Sandisk one. I'll also look into Teracopy. Is it faster than Robocopy?

Hello, I have quite a few USB sticks which are good capacity but I am always disappointed in the speed they run at, especially write speed. I don't want to spend mega money but I am willing to pay a premium to get a good one. Depending on price looking at 16-64GB ones. Is there a generally...

I assume they're not yet formatted and showing in Windows else it'd be a simple copy and paste job? Depending on how you've set up your original drives, you'll need to access the Smart Storage management console to get the controller card to properly present them. I am not sure if there's...

My thoughts exactly. If you want free help off the internet you need to give details. If you aren't willing to give adequate details then you'll have to bite the bullet and shell out for a VMware consultant complete with an NDA. However, in the spirit of being helpful, another thing to note is...

Is it possible to listen to iPlayer Radio shows through iTunes or some other app? It would be good if I could use my keyboard controls to play/pause it as opposed to having to find a tab in a browser.

Thank you for in depth answer, much appreciated. One question, and please excuse my ignorance, is this running FreeNAS as a VM or NAS4Free? Or letting the onboard HP RAID controller doing it and using those virtual disks as RDMs in vSphere?

Meh, that's what I was fearing. Luckily my room is right next to the router so I can get away with having a 2 metre cat6 plugged directly into my server. I'll buy a wireless card for it and make my own super lame but super fast wifi network. I'll be sure to show it to any girls who come round...

I know it'd be more definitive to phone VM direct and ask them but I can't be bothered to go through the hassle of explaining to someone on the phone if it won't work. I live in a shared house that's rented from an external landlord. We have a Virgin Media Superhub but I don't think it's the...

What are my storage options with this server? I have ESXi installed and was thinking about FreeNAS and then offering some of the FreeNAS drives back as an NFS partition to vSphere for a datastore but after thinking about it that's not going to work as the FreeNAS VM won't be able to see the hard...

I've got it working now thank you. I think it wasn't seeing it because the other drives I had were put into an array automatically by the Intelligent Provisioning when I installed ESXi using the HP modified ISO. I hadn't realised this until I started poking around in the Smart Array boot option...

Sorry, only just seen this as we must have posted at the same time. It's a 500GB Western Digital drive from a My Book I disassembled. WD5000KS is the model number. I'll check the jumpers now and have a look online for the tech specs.

Cool thanks guys, I'll try that tonight and report back.

On my gen8 I can't seem to access iLO using NIC1, only when specifically plugging the ethernet into the dedicated iLO port. How do I change it so I can use network/iLO both through NIC1? Also, I've plugged a SATA HDD into bay three but it doesn't get recognised. Drive is definitely working as...

Excuse my ignorance but what's a job club?

Are there any custom firmwares for the gen8 available?

DO's plans are slightly cheaper and I've read several criticisms of Linode's security after a couple of serious breaches by hackers. I am no position to know if DigitalOcean are any more secure but over the two I chose to go for DO.

I prefer DigitalOcean to Linode.

Very tempted to buy one of these but am a bit concerned about the small amounts of RAM it comes with as standard so I'd want to upgrade. This would only be a test box for me so I don't particularly want to splash out on ECC RAM. I've read conflicting reports about this needing ECC or not, can...