Virtualization: Best Windows based (Virtualbox, VMWare, etc).

Just upgraded to ESXi5 and all is going fine. Moved some VMs to a SSD and have replaced my 1068i SAS controllers with 9211i (reflashed IBM M1015) controllers and all is looking nice and stable. Shame the M1015s are not supported but flashing was easy once I found a motherboard sas2flsh could see the controllers in.

One thing I have the impression of (didn't record details so prior to upgrade so have no proof) is that WHS 2011 VM is using a bit more resource.

Any ideas on how to work out which USB ports should be passed through to a VM for using an external USB drive. I don't see the USB drive connected in the configuration->advanced->passthough devices

Thanks
RB
 
The HP 212 was more expensive than the M1015 and I have been doing this on a very tight budget.

If you have a 212 going then yeah, that would be great. I sure we can work something out. Email in trust. Thanks for the generous offer.

I work on the software rather than hardware side of the corporate world so unfortunately don't get access to the discarded bits :(.

One other thing I have now noticed is that the et1000 networking between VMs is dog slow...

Transferring from a Linux VM to my WHS VM only give me around 7MB/s. I have a dual port intel card on the way which I intend to use in the server and then use my single port Intel card as a passthough to the WHS VM. Not sure how the dual port Nic will show up in ESXi (single device or two network devices able to be split).

Does ESXi support bonding ?. My HP Procurve 1810 does.

Thanks.
RB
 
I received my dual port Intel PCIe 4x card (well cards as it turns out I bought a 5 pack :confused:).

Copying from my NAS VM to my PC gave 30MB/s. Putting in the new card and using VT-d for passthrough to my NAS (single network port) upped the transfers to around 80MB/s.

Now I just have to get one of my CentOS VMs to take the other port and the original PCI card will service the rest of ESXi and VMs on that box which have low network requirements.

Will post speed of VM to VM with nic passthrough transfer and VM to VM with both having passthrough nics when I get round to it. Surprised the networking is so slow unless it is resource bound (i.e. 1 VM being allocated only 30% available bandwidth max) which, whilst I keep remembering seeing something like that, I have not checked yet.

RB
 
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