Hi,
I am building a home ESXi server and need a new MB as the Asus P8H67 does not support VT-d so I cannot link my 11TB of data directly to my virtulized NAS.
I have 22 drive bays in my case (half populated currently) and 2x LSI PCIe x8 8 drive cards to handle them. I also have an i5 2400 for the TV instruction set and the iGPU.
I am therefore looking for a board with VT-d functionality, 2 or more PCIe x8 slots, DVI/VGA or at a push HDMI video out and able to use the iGPU on the i5 CPU, 1x PCI for my Intel NIC (at a push 1x PCIe and I will get a PCIe version of this card) and 6+ SATA connections.
As always, cheaper is better
.
Many thanks
RB
I am building a home ESXi server and need a new MB as the Asus P8H67 does not support VT-d so I cannot link my 11TB of data directly to my virtulized NAS.
I have 22 drive bays in my case (half populated currently) and 2x LSI PCIe x8 8 drive cards to handle them. I also have an i5 2400 for the TV instruction set and the iGPU.
I am therefore looking for a board with VT-d functionality, 2 or more PCIe x8 slots, DVI/VGA or at a push HDMI video out and able to use the iGPU on the i5 CPU, 1x PCI for my Intel NIC (at a push 1x PCIe and I will get a PCIe version of this card) and 6+ SATA connections.
As always, cheaper is better
.Many thanks
RB