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Downsizing and selling my ESX server. Currently configured with Unraid in a VM with IBM m1015 (flashed to IT mode) passed through for all disks. Cooler Master CM Stacker Tower Case 3 5x3 Hot Swap Drive cages ASRock Z77 Pro4 MB ESX 5.1 i5-3470 3.2Ghz CPU 16 GB Ram Corsair TX750M Intel Gigabyte Network Adapter IBM M1015 (Flashed to LSI2008 Firmware) 120GB Corsair SSD and Seagate 400GB drive for VM's 6 @ 1TB Driver 1 @ 500GB Located in Pepperell, MA (01463). Prefer local pickup. I do have the box in case it doesn't go locally I may consider shipping. Asking $600 or best offer.

I have read in a small handful of posts some mentioning running a raid array on an external machine (or VM) sharing via NFS. And using this as a cache for unRaid. I can't seem to find any instructions on how to permanently mount a NFS volume into unRaid and then use it as a cache drive. Can anyone help a linux/slackware noob on how to do this? Thanks.

I certainly understand the benefit of ECC memory and the longevity of server class boards. But my last desktop board Abit 9 pro has run 24x7 without a hitch for over four (five?) years and is still going strong. Part of my justification for this upgrade was my current system was "due" for some problems. If I get that much life out of this one I will be happy. The management interface of the Supermicro was realllllly tempting though... I will post if I run into any gotchas with this setup but so far so good. Just passed through an Intel Gigabit board on another PCIe slot so unRaid has it's own NIC.

Ah yes...ESX 5.1 and unRaid 5.0-rc5. I was going to go with the latest rc for unRaid but the thread on performance issues and the new kernal scared me away..

Just wanted to post my build information with unRaid and SageTV under ESX. Most builds on here seem to be using SM boards. I worked out a config using the standard SM board everyone seems to use here and the price of the board and ECC ram was pretty high with Sandy Bridge and even a little higher with Ivy Bridge. So I took a gamble with a consumer Z77 board and so far it seems it is working out ok. Nothing too special about the build except the MB/CPU combo to support Vt-d MB: Asrock Z77 Pro 4 ($109 at microcenter) CPU: Intel i5-3470 ($149 at Microcenter) I am reusing a Coolermaster Stacker case with three 5-3 SuperMicro hot swap bays for 15 hot swap drives and two internals(one SSD) for data stores. A bunch of reused 500GB and 1 TB drives. I am using the onboard z77 Sata6 ports for Datastores and passing through the two onboard ASmedia Sata6 ports for Sage recording drives. I have four more Sata2 onboard ports that I will used for RDM drives (haven't set these up yet). I flashed a M1015 ($85 ebay) to IT mode for unRaid (won't flash on this MB, had to use an ABit 9 pro on my old NAS box) This is passed through to the Unraid VM. SageTV and Unraid are up and running along with a Win2k3 VM. Copying data to the drive now at about 60MB/s. I pretty much followed johnm's thread for ESX setup. The only problems I had was with a staged install and passthrough. I setup SageTV first and once it was working installed the M1015 and passed it through and it broke the SageTV VM. The ASMedia PCI controllers identifier(?) changed once the M1015 was installed. But all that needed to be done was to re-passthrough the devices and re-add them to the VM. Oh and a few hours banging my head trying to flash the M1015 on the ASRock Z77 board. The UEFI USB ports threw me for a loop(PAL errors trying to load IT firmware). I finally gave up and tried my other machine and luckily it worked.