Has anyone used this as a CSV on Server 2012R2 as a failover cluster for Hyper-V?
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No idea. But I'm pretty sure you can. I would post this question on reddit.com/r/vmware I'm sure someone will be able to help you out.
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Using a Turon-based CPU and expecting any good performance from a VM under ESXi is asking for trouble. Think of this as a NAS device, not a general purpose server. I wouldn't try **any** virtualization more than "containers" or "BSD-Jails."By this point you might have purchased and installed ESXi. How did it go?
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Yes I have used this computer as a server for a small office. It has more than enough power to run several Hyper V's in one system.
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We are running windows 2012 R2 hypervisor with several virtual machines. This nic card works with no issue for me. We do not use core but I can not see any reason why it wouldn't work.
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I have two of these. I run Win7 Pro x64 on one, and Server 2008R2 with a 3rd Gen Core i5 and 16GB RAM on another. No issues whatsoever. All drivers available on Shuttle's website work fine, even card reader. It makes for a wonderful server. I even run another 2008R2 VM using Hyper-V and everything works great. I have nothing negative to say about this guy as a small, quiet, cool server.
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Yes, jumbo frames are supported. Running 9000mtu for iSCSI on NAS4Free to Esxi for my server luns. Works great.
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I have a 1TB drive in it currently hosting my VMware ESXi Server. And it has I believe 3 or 4 sata ports on the mother board if I remember correctly. Because I have an sata dvd drive and two hdds in it currently with one other sata port available if I remember correctly.
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I have the 2 TB model and yes I have mapped a few drives from 2 remote computers. It works fine.
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The supplied drivers work, but you will not be able to setup a HyperDuo raid configuration. I purchased this card and was not able to setup a raid configuration with it. I purchased a 4 port IO Crest PCIe sata card and used Windows to configure two hard drives in raid. Hope this helps.
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This is not a completely hardware RAID. It is called hardware assisted. That means it has logic on the board to calculate the RAID 5 "hashes". You still need a special driver on the host machine to do a lot of the work. I do that on an Ubuntu Linux server, but it's a pain. Every time a new kernel comes out that has new kernel headers, I have to recompile the driver source code. With disk space as cheap as it is these days, I gave up on RAID 5 and just mirror (RAID 2) each drive, so that if I have a failure of the interface card or the SansDigital drive enclosure, I can just pull out a drive and use it instead. I wouldn't even consider using a specialized RAID interface unless I had on-site spares of all parts or a disaster recovery plan. Too big a risk of losing everything because you can't get parts. There are disk enclosures ($$$) that do mirroring in hardware, but use a standard EIDE or USB interface so no special host interface is needed. Good Luck
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I considered doing this myself, as the Mini is built from OTS parts. I even purchased the identical case ($200). However, once I created a spreadsheet and entered all of the parts and prices (as best I could; still can't find a source for the exact DOM used in the Mini), the total came to within $30 of the iXsystems price for the diskless Mini. So, is that a fair price for a guaranteed-to-work, out-of-the-box solution? OTOH, if you don't build an exact duplicate, you *can* save some money. But, as Brian L. Bailey pointed out, it comes down to the value you place on your time and data. In any case, whether you buy the diskless Mini or roll your own, be sure to use at least 8GB ECC memory (the Mini has two 8GB ECC DIMMs; ECC should be a ZFS requirement) and server-grade disk drives (Western Digital Red drives are highly recommended), neither of which is as cheap as consumer-grade hardware. Note that FreeNAS requires 8GB base memory plus 1GB per TB of disk space. (See my other answer for Amazon ASINs for DIMMs and Disk drives.) Bottom line: If you value your data, don't scrimp on the hardware. See the FreeNAS web site and forums, such as the thread about "So you want some hardware recommendations?" for more information. On the forum, there are numerous postings by folks who did not adhere to the minimum hardware recommendations for FreeNAS and ZFS and lost all of their data - don't become one of them. Since you still need to back up your data, and backing up, say 6 or 12TB, is no trivial task, I may go ahead and build a second unit using identical parts and locate it in a relative's home. This would help protect our family's data from fire, theft, vandalism, or other disaster.
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Yes. In the Synology world it is known as Cloud Station and it is awesome. The files can be shared over local networks and the internet. It works great.
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The data sheet says two GB network interfaces. It also supports iSCis but I have not tried that function. Data sheet implies separate iSCSI and file access. The unit is easy to setup and has worked flawlessly for more than a year now. I also have iX2 that is running into year six with no problems. iX4 Data sheet is at this link: http://www.lenovo.com/images/products/server/pdfs/datasheets. /lenovoiomega_ix4_data_sheet_q12013.pdf Good luck!
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ESXi/vSphere compatible SAS-capable HBA, supported by Windows Server 2012 and 2008R2 and it runs in 2 modes, IT (straight through No Raid) and IR (Raid 0,1,1E,10) I've used it for ZFS under FreeNAS and Nas4Free, next project it will be used for Windows Storage Spaces under server2012R2 Don't forget to order the right kind of cables between the cards SFF connectors and your drives.
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I have one of these set up with standard drives and am able to run two VMs at the same time easily. I assume that SSDs would make it a bit faster though.
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I'm running these for iscsi each port at 9000mtu FreeNas to esxi iscsi for vmdk files :)
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Yes, I based an Ubuntu (LAMPS) server on this mobo that runs headless (no GUI) to conserve resources. It serves up a complete secure medical records, billing, scheduling and appointment reminder system (OpenEMR v4.1.1) supporting 6 users. It has never missed a beat and has been running continuously for over two years. I don't make use of the sound or HDMI capabilities in this application, so I can't comment on those. hth /r Dave