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Hi donjonmin, Sorry I didn't see your reply earlier. Heh in fact when I saw the thread title in the list I clicked it thinking "oh this looks interesting" completely forgetting that I'm the one who started it. Doh. Anyway, how interesting you made the same jump I did, from T110 to TS140...

peanuthead is correct that it's a non-starter with hyper-v because it can't handle VT-d. I tried really hard to get this to work back in the ESXi 5.0 days. I fiddled with 3 or 4 different Radeon cards, passing them through to a Win7 guest. The cards mainly passed through OK but HDCP was a...

Hmm ok. The reason I had thought that was because I tried to use ESXi 5.0 U2 first (old build, yes) and the Configure Passthrough screen had the exact same list of devices but everything was named "Unknown : Unknown" (or something to that effect). It made some intuitive sense, since 5.0 predated...

5.5, aside from giving slightly different names to the devices under "Configure Passthrough" seems to be behaving exactly the same... for the onboard USB I see two devices: 00:1a.0 | Intel Corporation Lynx Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (Vendor 8086, Device 8C2D) 00:1d.0 | Intel...

Thanks guys. Will try 5.5 here this morning and will report back.

Sorry, should have said... Xeon E3-1225 v3. VT-d/VMDirectPath works fine--I can successfully pass through the USB controllers--it's just they're passing through (and showing up) as EHCI controllers, not XHCI.

Hi all, I have a Lenovo Thinkserver TS140 but I believe this issue may affect other Haswell-based boards in ESXi 5.1 (haven't tried 5.5). For one, the SATA controller, while detected and working fine for ESXi datastores, does not appear in the list of devices able to be passed through to...

Thanks for the reply lopoetve. The reason why I was wanting to stick with 5.0 is that VMDirectPath works without issues in that version. 5.1 and 5.5 have introduced complications to hardware passthru I wanted to avoid. However, I am happy to report that 5.1U2, released a couple of days ago has...

I just tried 5.0U3 and now all the devices in Configure Passthrough are named properly but it still doesn't see my onboard AHCI SATA ports. 5.1 does see them. Can anyone help me identify what driver I need to try to grab?

Hi all, Okay so I just picked up one of the Xeon E3-based Lenovo TS140 servers. Cheap machine and will take up to 32GB of RAM which was my chief complaint about my old PowerEdge T110 (limited to 16GB). I have no need for any of the features that ESXi 5.1 and 5.5 bring to the table...

Hi _Gea et al Forgive what will probably turn out to be my overlooking something really stupid, but I'm running out of time and haven't been able to google the answer to this thus far. Basics: ESXI 5.0U1 on Dell T110 OI VM running Napp-it 0.7l nightly Feb.23.2012 (yeah I need to update)...

Boy this thread really blew up :D Really appreciate the offer to help lopoetve--I will work on setting up the syslog collector here in the next couple of hours and will repeat to see what can be gleaned from the logs. Good discussion too. Like I said, I have no sense of expectation for...

I understand that--and even attempted to "pre-but" that in my first post. But my point was that VMDirectPath works for all kinds of things that aren't supported. Furthermore, when I've read of problems people have with it--it's almost always that the VM boots but the passed-through device...

Anyone who's utilized VMDirectPath ever seen where starting up a VM with a passthrough device immediately hard locks the host? I'm seeing it on two different machines (both Dell--one is a PE T110 and the other a Precision T5500) with two different cards--one is a Brooktrout PCI fax card and...

Thanks s0rce and _Gea for the replies. I guess it's good that there's at least something one can try in such an instance but that procedure looks Hairy! Fortunately, what I lost can be re-created so I think I will just bite the bullet and do that rather than mess around trying to take my pools...

Ughhhhhh. Hoping for a miracle here. I have an All-in-one ESXi 5 box with OpenIndiana ZFS (pretty much per _Gea's guide) and it's been working great, using CIFS for Windows and AFP for Mac (though I'm having some issues with permissions on the Macs I still need to iron out). Anyway, as a...

I haven't tried anything different since spending a month on this back in the late summer. Unfortunately, it's still such a niche that I haven't read about anyone else attempting to get HDCP working either. The only thing I've read that looked like it was worth trying was using Xen instead of...

Go with the tried and true Dell PERC 6. ESXi supports it out of the box and on ebay it should run in your price range. A few caveats: 1. Make sure you get a battery backup unit with it (or buy it separately). This enables the on-board write cache which will greatly improve your write speeds...

Well they aren't for everyone. I've tried getting used to a trackpoint and couldn't. How much time have you actually spent using one of the newer Mac trackpads (I think they were introduced around 2007 or 2008) to compare it? See the post above mine for someone who actually went from trackpoint...

How do you scroll with your trackpoint? How do you zoom in/out with it? I've had plenty of laptops with trackpoints, but they all also offered a trackpad. That alone tells me that most people prefer a trackpad. I tried using trackpoints at various times and never found them to be quicker than...

1. POSIX OS (yes you can shoehorn in most of the stuff to Windows but on the Mac it's native) 2. Build quality (after my last $2000 Dell Latitude E6500 turned to sh*t in less than a year I gave up on Dell 3. TRACKPAD TRACKPAD TRACKPAD Seriously, I cannot emphasize #3 enough. I have used PC...

insanely, you want to put mac on your ESXi.comical!! :)

If any of you guys are planning on using WMC with cablecard tuners I'd really appreciate hearing if you're successful passing the Digital Cable Advisor (which is the WMC app that enables WMC for CableCard). I only know of one other person who has tried and neither of us could pass it due to lack...

Here's a summary of my experience over the past few months. Video is pretty much the only obstacle--everything else works perfectly well in a virtual environment. That said, video is a big obstacle. 1. Nvidia doesn't work. In the thread over at VMWare one person said he got a Quadro working...

Hmmm... that is sort of odd because I'm running 4GB registered DIMMs in my T110-1 just fine. 8GB DIMMS (I tried both registered and unbuffered) wouldn't POST, but that's just because the T110-1 doesn't support 8GB DIMMs. But the T110-2 must support them because it advertises a max memory of...

Well there's no way to get to 32GB in four slots without 8GB DIMMs so I'm sure that's what you'll need. I think the reason the memory selectors aren't showing you 8GB DIMMs is because apparently most (all?) 8GB ECC DIMMs are registered, not unbuffered. Technically the T110 II (and the first...

Yup, I have the original T110 and made the mistake of ordering some 8GB DIMMs for it without checking first--oops. Box wouldn't post with any of the 8GB sticks in there. 2 minutes of googling later and I realized my mistake. So OP be glad you got a T110 II! I'm finding only 16GB of RAM to be...

What type of RAID are you wanting to do? Actually, hard to go wrong with the Dell PERC 5 or 6 no matter what flavor of RAID. Just make sure you get the cache memory (already integrated on the 6) and a working BBU (not all cards come with the BBU and some ship with old stale batteries). You...

I don't mean not supported, I mean that I thought I read it cannot work at all because ESXi free restricts it from working. Here's something I found via a quick Google search. Was just hoping someone could comment on whether this is still true as of vSphere 5...

The official APC one.

I thought I read somewhere that you can't use that solution with ESXi Free. Is that correct?

Nope, no one had. Thank you. :)

Well according to the buy.com product page it has a 3 year parts and labor warranty. This monitor sounds like a great deal.

Is this screen glossy or matte? Thanks... got my eye on this one.

Hi guys, thanks for all the reviews and info. I've been considering this monitor since it was announced. Too bad about the input lag but I may still give it a try. Something I have not seen tested yet is whether Dell has finally put SDHC card support in the built-in card reader. It may seem...