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Had the idea of putting this in my T7610 as the Proxmox boot host drive, so not to use my SAS ports, yes I even got the 2nd drive bay extension, anybody have any experience or will it work with the bios, with them being designed for servers? P/Ns JV70F , M7W47 , 61F54, 72WKY, 51CN2, GK4D64 Or...

I recently acquired a Supermicro superserver with X10DRG-OT+ mainboard and X9DRG-O-PCIE board. I need to be able to boot from NVMe drive(s), my plan was to install Proxmox on a ZFS RaidZ1 with 4 NVMe drives. I got a cheap PCIe NVMe riser card - ASUS Hyper M.2 x16 PCIe 3.0 x4 Expansion Card V2...

What's the best practice for ESXi 8 boot drives nowadays? On my old ESXi 7 host, my Supermicro X10 board has an onboard Broadcom SAS3008. So I've been using it to run 2 SATA SSDs in RAID 1. On my upcoming ESXi 8 host, my Supermicro H13SSL-NT has no such onboard RAID controller. I've got some...

Does anybody here have any experience working with NVMe devices on Supermicro H11 Series of motherboards? After reading the manual I still have some questions about the support of NVMe storage devices. The particular board I have questions about is the H11DSi-NT. Does the m.2 slot support...

I am putting together a new system for my own homelab usage and I am contemplating a bit what drive(s?) to install proxmox on. I am going to backup the VMs regularly and the VMs themselves will run off other Intel DC SSDs I still had, but for the boot drive(s) I am a bit uncertain. I was going...

Hi, I'm trying to boot my Supermicro server from an NVMe on PCIe without success. I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 desktop. I heard that I have to modify the bios or maybe use an internal USB Stick that would contain the boot loader. would really appreciate some help as I need to do this ASAP. thanks in...

most of the 2.5' slots are used for storage , we have some free ram slots and i am thinking to use them with something like this and use the freed 2.5' for extra storage any suggestion for enterprise m2 ssd sata drives (i am also open for refurbished ) is 860 EVO SATA M.2 SSD a good option...

So in need of help with this SuperMicro server X10DRU-i+ | Motherboards | Products | Super Micro Computer, Inc. I’ve been googling about booting from an NVME and found this article - FAQ Entry | Online Support | Support - Super Micro Computer, Inc. It seems I have to set the PCI-E slots to EFI...

I'd love some thoughts on what is the better ESXi 7.0 boot drive, the Samsung 970 EVO Plus or WD SN750, both @ 500 GB. Specs seem quite similar and just prefer to toss the matter out to the pros (which I am NOT). Please let me know - after review of my constraints - if I'm completely barking up...

I recently purchased some X9DRD-LF systems. I have got them fully updated and am using an m.2 to USB SATA adapter as a boot device. I had the devices attached to the external USB ports and they are operational as a boot device for ESX. (much better than USB flash drive performance) I finally got...

Hi, I want to try out an all-in-one build. Everything works: ESXi 6.0 boots from usb key A second small usb key is configured as datastore. However because I reserved the memory no swap file and other unwanted writes will take place on the datastore. It only has the vmx files. The vmdk's are...

I just got a new server in with an LSI MegaRAID 9260-8i controller. Currently the drive (known good) is not showing up in the BIOS but does show up on the controller status and WebBIOS. How do you make the drive show up to be bootable as well as show up when installing an OS? Thanks.