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I finally managed to download ESXi through a great circuitous nightmare. I put the ..iso on a USB drive using Rufus. When I boot from it I immediately get a message saying "Remove this media and press any key to reboot". When I do so nothing happens. Thoughts?

I created an account with VMWaree but I can't seem to download ESXi. It says that I don't have a registration for the product. I've literally spent over an hour trying to get this to work. Am I having an idiot moment?

I appear to have successfully installed Proxmox but when I navigate to the address to log in it times out. I've installed it about 5 times now ust to make sure I didn't screw anything up. Not that there really is anything to screw up. The install process is pretty simple. The only thing I'm not...

As the title says I'm in need of a small SSD for storing a few VMs. It doesn't need to be blazing fast. The deals section isn't as full of SSD finds as it used to be and I'm a bit out of the loop so I don't know what to look for. Thanks!

I'm trying to get some things set up on my file server and am having difficulty setting up a SSL cert and I believe it's because I'm using PIA as a VPN on my PFsense firewall and No-IP for my DDNS. Am I hosed? I'm not sure if it matters but I'm trying to set up NextCloud and OpenOffice. If this...

OK. My server needs to be brought into the modern ear. I'm currently running WHS s2011 which has been great. I'm using some sundry utilities to create a RAID like situation. But it's deprecated. I'm open to other operating systems but I would absolutely need at least a rock solid Windows VM of...

Looking at some of the new X470 boards on Newegg I see noted "For Ryzen Series CPUs (Raven Ridge), ECC is only supported with PRO CPUs.". What does that even mean? When I Google Ryzen Pro I see some announcements from last year and a fancy page up on the AMD site but nothing other than that...

Now that drives are getting so much larger I'm looking to relegate my Norco 24 bay chassis to backup duty with all of my 2TB drives and am going to fully make the switch to 8/10 TB disks. I have no idea where to begin looking for a new case. I see a ton of 8 bay SM rackmount option on ebay but...

I have shucked a few of the 8 TB WD external drives. They are REDs for the record. What happens is after a while of transferring data to them the transfer slows waaaaaayyyyy down. Then when I restart the system the partition is gone and the disk shows up 13,ooo MB in disk management. I also have...

My trusty Dell 2724 bought the farm last night and I'm now typing this by way of a 100' patch cable running down to my router. Does anyone have a recommendation on a replacement? I don't need anything fancy at all. My criteria are cheap, reliable, gigabit, not too noisy and 24 ports. Should I...

Looks like Intel is going to have some kind of RAID on the CPU with Skylake-X. Intel's Core i9 and X299 enable crazy RAID configurations for a price I wonder what the cost will be and how it will perform.

My Q6600 desktop is way over the hill and needs to be sent packing. I've been toying with the idea of building a system with an E5 2670. Here are my needs: Fast enough ECC S/PDIF Sleep One HDMI and one DVI I'm thinking about this board: SUPERMICRO X9SRA Single Socket R (LGA 2011) E5 ATX...

I have a VIOP device and some network intrusion monitoring software and they don't play well together. When the network monitor is running it takes the VIOP device off line in a matter of minutes. All the software does is send out pings to the entire subnet 10 at a time. every minute. I have...

I need a socket 775 board. Preferably with ich 10, p45 and coax S/PDIF. Does anyone out there have something like this lying around in need of a new home?

I have a home automation system and I'm starting to log everything it does. I'm planning on putting this all in some kind of database somehow. Here's the rub. I am not a programmer. So I need to know where to start and if this is even a reasonable ambition. Is this going to be something I'm...

I think a software section would be a good addition to the forum. Servers aren't all about data storage. There is a section for storage platforms and virtualization but not data bases or anything else. Anyone else?

I currently am running WHS 2011 which does a lot of stuff for me including running Utorrent and providing me with remote access to my media. I am moving from a hardware based to a software based home automation system and would like to run it on XP in a VM. Now, I have never installed or played...

WTF is that?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004QMA882?t=slicinc-20&tag=slicinc-20 The price is right. Always I have waited until drives were about $100 before purchasing. Now I just need to get a FlexRAID plugin for WHS 2011 as I'm stuck on V1 :(

As I mentioned earlier I am in the process of moving and networking my new house. I have all of the wall plates in place and all of the keystone jacks terminated but for some reason I am unable to get any of the cables to work when I terminate the other end with a regular plug and not an other...