After a bit of advice / help please.
I bought my Microserver back in July.
I have so far purchased an ATI 5450 (from here) and 4 GB (2x2GB) of HP ECC ram together with WHS2011. I lready have a WHSv1 FS Scaleo home server with 3x1.5TB (pooled) and a 250GB system drive. A 16GB HP usb memory stick.
This is ideally what I want from the box and was hoping someone might provide some guides to achieve this or let me know if I am asking too much:-
Run Windows 7 as base OS or VM (ESXi5?) to enable it to be used as an MCE with my two linksys extenders. I have a playTV dual tuner usb.
Run WHS2011 as a VM and import my 3 1.5TB drives to the microserver possibly adding a 4th 1.5TB
also have a VM with my old WHSv1 on it
Where I need help is how to setup the VM's. Do I run ESXi on the memory stick and have 2-3 VM's as above or do I load Windows 7 and then have the VM's off that. Will the usb playTV work under a VM? Do I need a raid card? I'm really not to sure how to proceed so any help would be fantastic!
Thanks in advance
I bought my Microserver back in July.
I have so far purchased an ATI 5450 (from here) and 4 GB (2x2GB) of HP ECC ram together with WHS2011. I lready have a WHSv1 FS Scaleo home server with 3x1.5TB (pooled) and a 250GB system drive. A 16GB HP usb memory stick.
This is ideally what I want from the box and was hoping someone might provide some guides to achieve this or let me know if I am asking too much:-
Run Windows 7 as base OS or VM (ESXi5?) to enable it to be used as an MCE with my two linksys extenders. I have a playTV dual tuner usb.
Run WHS2011 as a VM and import my 3 1.5TB drives to the microserver possibly adding a 4th 1.5TB
also have a VM with my old WHSv1 on it
Where I need help is how to setup the VM's. Do I run ESXi on the memory stick and have 2-3 VM's as above or do I load Windows 7 and then have the VM's off that. Will the usb playTV work under a VM? Do I need a raid card? I'm really not to sure how to proceed so any help would be fantastic!
Thanks in advance
