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Automate your life. Probably not the best title - what i wanted was one box that can do the following. Run ESXI and probably VCSA - i can dabble with this at work, and might have to do a lot more of it in the future, so mucking at home will help (and its fun). Run a gaming VM (passthrough tested and working on ESXI 6 and 6.5). My labbing stuff - Run various windows and linux VMs (For syslog / splunk, BIND, AD, SQUID etc). This is mainly for screwing around with and learning. No trouble here either.
My 'daily' stuff - This needs to run a PLEX VM full time, and offer shares using NTFS (I have at least 15-20TB of media and other stuff on NTFS drives). And this brings me to my issue. I understand i cant use NTFS drives in ESXI, but i can raw map them, but it seems like a total pita. I also understand i can attach NFS shares to a VM, but that would involve another box? I have dual x5650 Xeons and 96GB of RAM (this can be used in either an R710 or a supermicro X8DTH-6F). Also have an MD1000 - so far so good (although MD1000 counts as a second box i guess).
I'd like to be able to run everything on one box if i can. What are my options here if i want to use only this hardware for this use case? Do i really need another machine running the NTFS drives to share them and make them available to the VMS? I know i could also transfer everything bit my bit to VMFS formatted drives - but fuck that. I have a very strong networking background, and although i am a quick study, still pretty green with VMware. Feel free to point me in the right direction or indeed point out my stupidity as required;).
This is what i am doing as well. No were near the beef that OP has though.
Just a Proliant ML10v2 with 1x E3-1220v3, maxed out 32 GB ECC ram. I have a LSI card passed through to my FreeNAS VM. Freenas has 16GB of that ram. From there, i am sharing all of my media through Samba to a Ubuntu Server for Plex. I do have an iSCSI share to my PC for a small-ish 300GB backup drive from my PC.
But you can opt to use Samba. I hear iSCSI really doesnt want multiple people hitting the same share (data corruption of same block is accessed i hear) Other VMs include pfSense, Xubuntu for misc work, a Win7 VM for more random stuff. But Plex and FreeNas were my main concern.
For the gaming VM your choice of graphics cards will be limited to AMD or quadro/tesla cards. NVidia has a built in driver check for their GeForce consumer cards that prevent them from running in a virtual environment. Esxi sadly has no workaround for this like other hypervisors do. Apparently adding hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = 'FALSE' to the vmx config file fixes it, according to You will also want to pass through a full USB controller so you can hot swap USB devices. Personally I went with a pcie USB3 card. I also pass through a pcie sound card, but a USB one would work as well, or you could use HDMI from your graphics card. OK I get what you are saying now.
To have the esxi console and steamOS VM displayed directly from the host. Thats not what I was thinking in my head. My lab is in the basement and hooked up to a KVM. The steamOS VM will run headless with the gaming GPU passed to it, then stream to the steam link on a tv on the 1st floor. I'll have separate machines to manage esxi over the network.
I have other priorities right now, but maybe when I get around to this extra project I will make a post with the results. Then all the experts can correct me hah!:P.
Is a really cool open source audio player project, meant for high quality playback and easy use with cheap devices. Basically, a plug-and-play network music appliance. I have a few already around the house – a Pi Zero W in the kitchen for streaming radio, a with nice DAC hooked up to the stereo for lossless file playing.
At it’s base it is controllable by the standard, which allows it to be integrated into other audio solutions or controlled by software like Home Assistant. I wanted to add a network controllable speaker to my NUC server, and it made sense to stick with Volumio. Here’s the steps for installing in a virtual machine. THE PROBLEM One annoying thing I have run into is that Proxmox only allows ISOs to be used as installation media.
But for some projects meant for embedded devices – like or – only an IMG file is provided. So even though Volumio supports Intel x86 devices, I couldn’t figure out a way to install it’s IMG file with Proxmox until I found Giles Orr’s. Many thanks to him for detailing this previously unknown to me Linux tool. THE SOLUTION CREATE THE VM In Proxmox I created a standard Linux VM with 1.5GB of RAM and an 8GB disk.
Be sure to choose “IDE” as the disk type, I could not get a SCSI disk to boot with Volumio. On my NUC, passing through the on-board audio wasn’t an option (or at least, my tests didn’t work) so I simply used a cheap USB audio dongle and passed that through. For installation media, boot a. Now, using netcat we are going to listen on this machine, and send the Volumio IMG file to it through another on the network.
The file will be written directly to the disk. On the VM, listen with netcat on port 1234 and write the incoming file to the disk at /dev/sda nc -l -p 1234 /dev/sda On a different machine on the network, send the IMG file to your listening VM with: nc -w 3 192.168.0.xxx 1234.