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Comment on The Perfect VMware vSphere 5 Home Lab by Express

Express — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:53:28 +0000

I’ll have to double check once i get home but if i am not mistaken it is version 1.15 build date 11/24/2011.

Comment on The Perfect VMware vSphere 5 Home Lab by Ryan Birk

Ryan Birk — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:43:46 +0000

What BIOS version are you running?

Comment on The Perfect VMware vSphere 5 Home Lab by Express

Express — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:33:09 +0000

@Hack Hack, were you ever able to get a fix for the keyboard issue you had, looks like i am having the exact same issue. If you dont mind sharing with me... Thanks in advance

Comment on The Perfect VMware vSphere 5 Home Lab by Express

Express — Fri, 17 May 2013 02:56:23 +0000

Looking for a little help I have a shuttle setup for the last year running with no problems until the other day I had a power outage. I boot from a USB now I get fatal error 33 inconsistent data. I recreated a new USB with the same iso but now after passing all the way to the first yellow screens I lose the keyboard. So I get stuck reboot try again no good. Any advice??

Comment on The Perfect VMware vSphere 5 Home Lab by Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 11 May 2013 18:18:32 +0000

Hello Ryan,

I am planing to build my first home lab.
But I have a few questions.

I want to use the following parts:

-Shuttle XPC Barebone SH67H7
-Intel Core i7-3770, CPU “Ivy Bridge”
-2x Corsair DIMM 16 GB DDR3-1333 Kit, CMX16GX3M2A1333C9, XMS
-Intel PRO/1000 PT Dual Port Server Adapter or Intel PRO/1000 PT Quad Port Server Adapter
-Sandisk Cruzer Fit 8 GB, USB-Stick
-Four-drive 2.5″ SATA cage Icy Dock MB994SP-4SB-1
-Intel 520series 2,5″ SSD 240 GB
-HTS721010A9E630 HDD 2,5″ SATA3 1000GB/7200RPM HGST

On the Sandisk Cruzer Fit Usb-Stick i want to install the Esxi 5.1.
The SSD is planed to used as datastore for iso-images and 2 or 3 VM’s.
The harddisk is used as second datastore and all the other VM’s.

At the moment I don’t know if I should buy a dual port or quad port Intel
NIC. What do you suggest? How many cards can I install in the shuttle?
1 is onboard + 2 NIC’s in addition (PCIex) right?

In another VM-Forum I have read that someone installed 3 NIC’s in the Shuttle SH67H3. Makes a total of 4.

- NIC: Realtek RTL 8111E (Onboard)
- NIC: Intel Pro 1000 PT Dual Port (PCI-e 1x)
- NIC: Intel Pro 1000 PT Dual Port (PCI-e 16x)
- NIC: Intel Pro 1000 PT Single Port (PCI-e 1x)

How did he install the 3 NIC’s?

Specification SH67H3 from shuttle website

Expansion Slots
1x PCI-Express x16 v2.0 slot (PEG, for graphics cards only)
1x PCI-Express x1 v2.0 slot
1x Mini-PCI-Express x1v2.0 slot (for the optional WLAN module)
Supports Dual-slot (double-width) graphics cards -
in this case the second PCI-Express slot will be occupied.
A 6 pin power connector is available for the graphics card.

So I can only use the 1x PCI-Express x1 v2.0 slot.
Right?

I’m a bit confused… How did he install the 3 Intel cards?

What do you think about my configuration? Is it ok?

Hope to hear from you soon to get some answers to my questions.

Thank you.

best regards
Thomas

Comment on 50% Discount on VCP Exams by Matt

Matt — Fri, 10 May 2013 23:42:29 +0000

Thank you for posting that. I couldn’t find it and thought to look on your site!

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Comment on I’m a new VMware Certified Instructor! by KOMAL SAKHRANI

KOMAL SAKHRANI — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:50:25 +0000

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Comment on The Perfect VMware vSphere 5 Home Lab by ben

ben — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 06:34:29 +0000

Great write up, I noticed that several talked about using the new SZ77R5 or SX79R5. My main issue is I don’t believe either has AMT (vPro) Ip-KVM abilities? I would love to use one of these system but require remote power and remote KVM access. Any thought on this?

Comment on The Perfect VMware vSphere 5 Home Lab by Hills

Hills — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 01:40:45 +0000

@Mr Rex

Mr Rex i had the same idea as you and have a Shuttle SX79R5 built it up as ESXi home virtual. Installed esxi 5.1 no problems added to vcenter, everything going well….so you think )) transferring large amounts of data eg migrating vm’s crashes and shuts down the management network to fix reboot and start again and it shut it down again.
So thought i would put Xen on it and wow same issue…
begrudgingly i put hyper vomit 2012 on it and is currently running, only problem is there arent any supported drivers for 2012…sounds like vista all over again….
If you have them already would be interested on your experiences but if you havent got them yet then i would advise against it.
Happy days