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    Easiest way to make a windows system redundant?

    Hi folks, I have a windows 8.1 system with 2 SSDs running SQL Server Express in addition to regular user applications like office and business accounting and pos software, etc. 1 ssd is the boot os drive and the other has client files as well as sql server data files and backups. As you can...
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    S1400SP4 and RMS25CB080

    Awesome, thank you. I was having a hard time finding this information.
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    S1400SP4 and RMS25CB080

    Hi Folks, I have an Intel S1400SP4 and planning to get a SAS Module to expand storage. Looking at the RMS25CB080. It meets my needs and budget. Only concern is whether I will lose the PCI slot utility due to the size of the SAS module. Can anyone tell me if installing the SAS module will...
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    STH Aeon Mining Pool Beta Access

    I'm in....if this makes sense on a single E5-2470 when idle or a GTX1070.
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    ESXi: Moving VMs to another Datastore?

    Would that be vCenter Server? Approx 2.4 GB download? Thanks! PS: Am I the only one that finds the VMWare product naming confusing?
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    ESXi: Moving VMs to another Datastore?

    Hi again, I am on ESXi 6.5 FREE version and would like to move a VM from Datastore1 to Datastore2 on the same host machine. VMs can be powered off and doesn't need to be a live migration. How can I do this? I have googled but they all apply to the paid versions or refer to using a vsphere...
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    ZFS newbie coming from RAID needs handholding...erm advice...

    Thanks everyone for all the responses. I am going to go 8 x Z3 or with 2 - 4 x Z2.
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    ZFS newbie coming from RAID needs handholding...erm advice...

    Reliability > Performance > Space in that order. Space is not even a concern really. Have been getting by with a 2 x 2TB RAID1 mirror so far. I'm considering going RAIDZ3. If this were a hardware raid, I would go one big raid10 - 8 x 2TB RAID10. Thanks!
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    ZFS newbie coming from RAID needs handholding...erm advice...

    Thanks for all the replies... Not familiar with zvols, some reading and research to do I guess. 1 pool with 2 shares makes sense. Any advice on the vdevs? 1 vdev with all 8 drives or split that into 2 vdevs with 4 drives each or something else entirely? The drives are within 1-2 years old...
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    ZFS newbie coming from RAID needs handholding...erm advice...

    Planning to use ZFS for shared storage and need advice... This system has 8 x 3.5" drive bays and I was thinking of going RAID-Z2 with 8x2TB drives that I already have. I THINK I need 2 pools - 1 private pool for storing database backups and 1 pool for public file sharing. Backups are nightly...
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    Accessing Intel BMC/IPMI over dedicated PCIe NIC on ESXi

    Hi there, I have an Intel S1400 board with 2 on-board NICs from which I can access the Intel BMC when I use these 2 ports for uplink in ESXi. This system also has an Intel I350 addon-on PCIe NIC card with 4x1GB ports. When I use the addon card with the 4x1GB ports for uplink in ESXi I cannot...
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    ESXI Sys Reset on Win10 Guest Shutdown

    1. No, will install guest tools now and see if it works better. 2. Restart does not reset the host/system. Restart works fine! Only shutdown resets the system. Interesting... 3. This is VMware ESXi 6.5.0 (VMKernel Release Build 4887370) 4. This is a fresh install of win10pro with default...
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    ESXI Sys Reset on Win10 Guest Shutdown

    I've googled for variations of "CATERR system reset cpu error esxi guest os shutdown". But not really getting anywhere. Any links or keyword search suggestions would be greatly appreciated. PS: I've noticed my google search results have increasingly become less useful. I think I'm getting poor...
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    ESXI Sys Reset on Win10 Guest Shutdown

    Hi, I have an ESXI 6.5 system with Windows 10 Pro as a guest. The entire system runs fine as far as I can tell. The problem is when I shutdown the windows guest, the entire physical system does a system RESET. The sensor log shows a CATERR.. 870 11/04/2017 11:52:01 CATERR Processor reports...
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    Troubleshooting GPU passthrough ESXi 6.5

    Sorry for the bump. Just wanted to say thank you to everyone that posted solutions and suggestions in this thread. This worked without a hitch for the most part. Passed through a GTX1070 to Win10Pro on ESXi 6.5. Had an issue getting the nvidia driver working, turns out my windows version was...
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    FreeNAS SLOG Device?

    Thanks for the responses everyone! :) miniknight, perhaps I don't need one. I figured it would be better to have one if needed and thus question 1 about sharing a device. gea, while the primary purpose is backups, it may also have other uses like spinning up a backed up VM (rarely) or simple...
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    FreeNAS SLOG Device?

    Two quick questions: 1. Does the slog DEVICE need to be dedicated? Or can you have a dedicated slog PARTITION on a device that is used for other non-freenas purposes like file storage, etc. (Yes, I understand this will impact performance, but is it possible?) 2. I made question 2 into a poll...
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    what's a decent ddr3 16gb ecc price these days?

    I just bought 96GB (Nanya 6x16GB 1333 PC3L) for $96 on ebay through BO.
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    S1400FP Fan Control / SDR Editing

    I have an Intel S1400FP2 Server Board in a NON-Intel Chassis with a Noctua NH-U12DXi4 which is an active CPU cooler. (Comes with a Noctua NF-F12 PWM fan). The fan speed hits the lower critical threshold as the fan control is configured for higher speed fans meant for 1u chassis. This causes...