ESXi Build Part 1: Review of Dell PowerEdge T710.

In this video I talk about the hardware and its features of the Dell PowerEdge T710 which we will be installing VMWare ESXi on.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Dell
• server
• T710
• ESXi
• PowerEdge
• fredferrell
• R710

[devan12100]

Uhhh...I don't see any other videos :P

[fredferrell]

@devan12100

I have just ordered a Dell R310 and will be continuing the series from there.

[fredferrell]

@mo7senses

I am familiar with them, but never installed one.

[mo7senses]

@mo7senses

Thanks fred - well, SAS are quite expensive and as i've to expand the storage upto 2TB so I decided to switch to SATA. Indeed there will be difference between SAS and SATA performance but again I've to be focused on budget. \

Thanks for your advice Mate! Do you also have knowledge on SUN SPARC M9000 series servers?

[fredferrell]

@mo7senses

I always ask for clarification, but to answer your question... There shouldn't be any issues with you changing out the hard drives to SATA. May I ask why you are changing out the drives though. SAS are usually better performing and more reliable than SATAs.

[mo7senses]

@fredferrell

Yes, they both are 3.5 inches SAS and i want to replace them with 3.5 inches SATA. Also if im not wrong SATA doesn't comes in 2.5 inches category, except laptops....

[1zacster]

@fredferrell More like they are both running at the same time and I hit idk hold ctrl Alt insert then it switches between the different os, like if a video is playing it pauses and possibly have one xeon and one HDD dedicated to each os but ram is just divided equally? Probably be a coding nightmare

[fredferrell]

@1zacster , Are you talking about running the OS directly on the memory?

[1zacster]

@fredferrell So dual dons with 64gb ram split 'down the middle' can run multiple os at the same time?

[fredferrell]

@1zacster , You wouldn't want to spend the money it costs for this server to play games, but to answer your question, yes you could. I would recommend that you find a video card that works with the PCI pass-through, so you can get the performance needed.