Will this server be able to run ESXi 5.5?
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The Certified Servers team appreciates you question. The Dell Poweredge 2950 Gen II (This listing) cannot run ESXi 5.5 but Dell Poweredge 2950 Gen III can run.
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Yes it can run server 2012 with hyper-v. I assume a standard sata ssd would be fine too though I can't say from experience.
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It's just hardware you can install whatever you want on it. I installed esx 5.5
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I'm running these for iscsi each port at 9000mtu FreeNas to esxi iscsi for vmdk files :)
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Hey Taylor, I am currently running 4 4GB WD drives and almost the same config as you for FreeNAS. I decided on 1333 Mhz memory since the price wasn't that much different. I have 3 of these sytems running ESXi 5.5. Great motherboards IMO.
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Typically, yes. But you should always go to Synology's site to confirm supported hardware.
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No iSCSI support with this one, you'll need to go with the + model I believe. It does support NFS, however I've never personally setup ESX to work with it yet. It's on my list of things to play around with.
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Few servers come with an OS out of the box. Win Server 2011 is fifty bucks here. You'll also be smart to throw in more RAM. If you are not used to tearing apart PC's or working with routers and switches, this machine is on the end of the tech cycle and probably not the best toy for you, unless you want to learn a LOT.
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From the specs on the manufacturer's website, it says it supports iSCSI but I have never tried making an iSCSI connection with them. You might also want to consider how much I/O performance you need for your ESX application(s) as I have found most NAS devices like this to have marginal real world I/O performance, especially IOPS. If you plan on running any VMs that required moderate to high I/O loads, it might not keep up.
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Using a Turon-based CPU and expecting any good performance from a VM under ESXi is asking for trouble. Think of this as a NAS device, not a general purpose server. I wouldn't try **any** virtualization more than "containers" or "BSD-Jails."By this point you might have purchased and installed ESXi. How did it go?
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I do. I've got two that I run VMware ESXi on to deploy virtual machines for both testing and production. It's a solid little box to run a hypervisor and you can cram 16gb of RAM in there, so there's plenty of room to play with. If you want to do purely development, you could easily run something like Docker and Vagrant to deploy small VMs for isolated development environments. Seriously, it's just a computer. This one just happens to be absurdly tiny and cute, but it's capable of lifting some serious weight when you need it to.
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don't know about esxi. however we run Oracle's VM and its not an issue on either side (host/guest). and generally speaking if the underlying OS recognizes this card the VM should as well (once again on both sides). Personally I'd give this card a shot as its one of the few cards that runs on just about every OS one could think of. hope this helps..
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If your board has PCIe it will work just fine I have one installed on a Xeon server and it works great.
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It's best if you check compatibility at the VMware website. I've no experience with VSphere ESXi, but my basic understanding is that it's designed for a server environment. However, the Highpoint RocketRAID 640L card is designed as a simple add-on for a Windows or Linux-based PC. If you do a Google search for ESXi the first two results take you to the VSphere website with links to compatibility charts and more.
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I believe I had it running under server 2012. Hard to remember now since I got other one to run under esxi but I know for a fact it worked with Windows.
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Hi Ezzat I usted tus card in a Asus board With vmware esxi, but I guess it Will work on any x86 board depending on the OS
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I have only used XEON processors on these systems. I wish I could be helpful, but I'm about as useful as.... Well, you know the saying! :)