Today I found some time to build up an all-in-one based on a X9SRH-7TF
with 10 GbE and SAS 2308 in IT mode
CPU: Xeon 2620-2 GhZ 6core (optional 4 or 8core)
RAM: 32 GB ECC RAM (4 x 8GB, max 256 GB)
Step 1:
flash onboard LSI 2308 to IT mode
http://www.napp-it.org/doc/manuals/flash_x9srh-7tf_it.pdf
Step 2:
Bios setting.
- enable vt-d (advanced-chipset-nortbridge-I/O)
step 3:
Install ESXi 5.1 build 799733 onto a 50 GB SSD on Sata
step 4:
enable pass-through (ESXi vsphere: advanced settings) for 2308, reboot
step5:
upload OmniOS ISO to local datastore on the 50 GB SSD (use ESXi Filebrowser)
step6:
create a OmniSAN-VM (20 GB) with e1000 nic
add the LSI 2308 as a pci adapter
cd=bootup-iso, stable from may
boot and setup
step7:
setup network according to:
napp-it // webbased ZFS NAS/SAN appliance for OmniOS, OpenIndiana and Solaris
step8:
install napp-it via wget -O - www.napp-it.org/nappit | perl
step 9:
start napp-it via http://ip:81
- create a pool (raid-z2 from 6 x Sandisk extreme2 - 480 GB)
- create a filesystem /tank/vm
- share the filesystem via NFS
step 10:
connect the filesystem /tank/vm via ESXi (NFS)
step 11:
- upload a win8 iso to the NFS datastore
- create a new Win8 VM on the NFS datastore on OmniOS with DVD connected to Win8 iso
- setup Win 8
- Win8 ok
next steps,
- update ESXi to 5.1U1 build 1065491: ok
- update OmniOS to newest stable build b281e50: ok
- install vmware tools, setup vmxnet3 (
http://napp-it.org/doc/ESXi-OmniOS_Installation_HOWTO_en.pdf): ok
No problems so far
my "desktop testbed"