@xssdemon with "smaller" OS like freenas, you can get better performance if you give it more ram. but OS like windows 2008 server and depending on what services you have enabled on it can be slow because you are limited by the CPU. i don't have the setup anymore but i remember running freenas and it didn't feel any different than running it on a non virtual environment. of course, i didn't do much file transferring during test but for common things it ran great. i gave it 2GB ram and ZFS...
It's the first time i see Asrock E350M1 working with ESXi 4.1 :) I was sure that E350M1 will not work with ESXi in tern of storage. But obviously i was wrong :) Anyway i just bought Gigabyte E350N-USB3 and installed on it Citrix XenServer ;)
@killer6361 ya esxi is very picky with hardware compatibility. the onboard raid from the motherboard isn't compatible. you would have to get additional hardware to get the raid to work. i tried citrix but i was so used to esxi interface. but ya, citrix is more hardware friendly and i believe their version of vmotion is free.
Whoa! And how is performance of virtual machines? Can you compare with plain OS (for example freenas) and virtualized OS?
xssdemon 4 months ago
@xssdemon with "smaller" OS like freenas, you can get better performance if you give it more ram. but OS like windows 2008 server and depending on what services you have enabled on it can be slow because you are limited by the CPU. i don't have the setup anymore but i remember running freenas and it didn't feel any different than running it on a non virtual environment. of course, i didn't do much file transferring during test but for common things it ran great. i gave it 2GB ram and ZFS...
w1n78 4 months ago
@w1n78 thanks. I'd better just install linux on it and configure everything in one machine.
xssdemon 4 months ago
It's the first time i see Asrock E350M1 working with ESXi 4.1 :) I was sure that E350M1 will not work with ESXi in tern of storage. But obviously i was wrong :) Anyway i just bought Gigabyte E350N-USB3 and installed on it Citrix XenServer ;)
killer6361 7 months ago
@killer6361 ya esxi is very picky with hardware compatibility. the onboard raid from the motherboard isn't compatible. you would have to get additional hardware to get the raid to work. i tried citrix but i was so used to esxi interface. but ya, citrix is more hardware friendly and i believe their version of vmotion is free.
w1n78 7 months ago