LazyLion
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But then why does it have an option to turn it off?
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But then why does it have an option to turn it off?
HP still offer both models, according to their website, and they have for some time, so I can't figure how the N36L is now "old stock".
When you don't want to access it remotely.
What I do is create another admin account with a password and use that account to login to the workstation remotely and my normal account still doesn't have a password.
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
OK, let me try that. Thanks.
Ok guys everything arrived Hp microserver 2x4 gigs kingston memory and 2x2 tb seagate 5900rpm drives. Like I stated in the previous post my build will just be for a nas and later on for htpc. Know after reading the entire thread I'm leaning towards vsphere 5 as the os and virtualising some os's in exsi.
Now I need you intelligent bunch to point me in the right direction with vsphere as i want to have the following to run.
Sb+SAB+couch potatoe & ps3 media server till I get a second hp for my htpc.
Freenas or unraid ( just want to create a single volume, no redundancy needed) have a drive that backs up my critical data on another machine.
Yeti i'm still waiting on your blog care to give me some pointers, Please
Now I need you intelligent bunch to point me in the right direction with vsphere as i want to have the following to run.
Sb+SAB+couch potatoe & ps3 media server till I get a second hp for my htpc.
Freenas or unraid ( just want to create a single volume, no redundancy needed) have a drive that backs up my critical data on another machine.
Yeti i'm still waiting on your blog care to give me some pointers, Please
Ok guys everything arrived Hp microserver 2x4 gigs kingston memory and 2x2 tb seagate 5900rpm drives. Like I stated in the previous post my build will just be for a nas and later on for htpc. Know after reading the entire thread I'm leaning towards vsphere 5 as the os and virtualising some os's in exsi.
Now I need you intelligent bunch to point me in the right direction with vsphere as i want to have the following to run.
Sb+SAB+couch potatoe & ps3 media server till I get a second hp for my htpc.
Freenas or unraid ( just want to create a single volume, no redundancy needed) have a drive that backs up my critical data on another machine.
Yeti i'm still waiting on your blog care to give me some pointers, Please
I download Vsphere 5.0 today and installed VMvisor without any issues. Accessing the device from a Vsphere client I installed on my laptop.
Now my initial plan was to run XBMC in a VM but then how do you display it properly on your TV? So I was thinking of rather dual booting with Vpshere and Ubuntu, then I can run XBMC from Ubuntu.
Did you install via flash drive?
Nope External CDROM but there is an application called unetboot that you specify the iso and the USB drive and it makes your USB drive bootable so you can try that.
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
OK, so this is how I got it working...
1) Turned off Homegroup sharing completely and deleted the Homegroup.
2) Set encryption down to 40 bits (Instead of 256 bit).
3) Changed the setting that said let windows manage my network with homegroup, to the one that says use networking with passwords.
4) set the option for password sharing to ON (if you turn that off, all networking ceases even though microsoft says otherwise).
5) Set up a basic password on each computer.
Yay, now my networking is back to Windows XP style and all my computers (and other devices like my Mede8er) can see each other.
It's weird that you absolutely have to have a password in order for basic networking to run.
Ok guys everything arrived Hp microserver 2x4 gigs kingston memory and 2x2 tb seagate 5900rpm drives. Like I stated in the previous post my build will just be for a nas and later on for htpc. Know after reading the entire thread I'm leaning towards vsphere 5 as the os and virtualising some os's in exsi.
Now I need you intelligent bunch to point me in the right direction with vsphere as i want to have the following to run.
Sb+SAB+couch potatoe & ps3 media server till I get a second hp for my htpc.
Freenas or unraid ( just want to create a single volume, no redundancy needed) have a drive that backs up my critical data on another machine.
Yeti i'm still waiting on your blog care to give me some pointers, Please
Feel free to shoot any questions at me.
Just a short comment; you will not be able to run a media center (such as XBMC) in a VM.
My advise is install FreeNAS on 1 VM, give it all your 2TB's and format them as ZFS. I have a few other VMs; the one you would be interested in is the Ubuntu Server- she runs the software stack (sabznbd, couchpotato, sickbeard) etc. It mounts various shares from the FreeNAS partition (which have been shared to Unix systems). I also run dropbox on that system and make the 'Dropbox/NZBs' subdirectory my watch folder in SABnzbd, such that I can drop in NZBs on the go.
Again, feel free to ask me questions and I should be able to field them in a reasonable time-frame.
Thanks Yeti, Hp currently running Esxi 5.0 at the moment had a couple of hiccups but nothing major, installed to a usb flash drive. I have the standard 250gig which I want use for the os's in vm and the 2x2tb for the raid.
Yeti:
1. I configured the fisrt data store as a 50gig partition on the 250gig , what is best practice? Should I create a datastore for each os and how much should suffice based on you recommendations.
2. How do I direct it to the Iso file for installation? can I just plug in a usb stick and take it from there?
Again thanks Yeti for assisting
Yay, now my networking is back to Windows XP style and all my computers (and other devices like my Mede8er) can see each other.
It's weird that you absolutely have to have a password in order for basic networking to run.
Just a hint, if you do have Windows 7 PCs, go to the Windows Vault (Start, type "vault", it's the first option - Credentials Manager), then click on "Add a Windows credential" next to Windows Credentials.
The rest should be straightforward. This stops Windows from asking you constantly to enter username and password.
I think you can do the same with an XP machine by following these steps:
1. Open Control Panel.
2. Open User Accounts.
3. Click Manage My Network Passwords on the Related Tasks panel (on the left side of the window). You'll get a dialog box listing all of your stored usernames and passwords.
4. Add another username and password, or remove the existing ones or change their properties.
As for requiring a password for basic Networking, that's an XP problem. Doesn't always happen and varies from Home to professional as to the type of errors you get.
I am not aware of best practice with resource pooling in ESXi; I have 2 320gb 2.5" drives in my ODD bay, each has multiple datastores, one for each OS. I did not go as far as optimising which datastore for which OS goes where. I have a 30GB datastore for my Ubuntu Server and a 10GB datastore for FreeNAS. Obviously you are welcome to use larger datastores. I created a third datastore for download 'caching' (50GB) which I gave as a resource to my Ubuntu VM (such that my ubuntu VM has 2 disks; one for the OS and one for downloads). sickbeard/couchpotato move the downloads from this drive to the mount point on FreeNAS.
For example, in my setup I have the following drives/mounts:
/ -> 30GB OS
/mnt/cache -> 50GB downloads
/mnt/movies -> mount on my FreeNAS server
/mnt/tvseries -> "
Alternatively, you could create a single datastore and just assign the above partitions as virtual disks. This second approach is simpler.
abs1 said:
- In your vSphere client, in the right navigation pane click on your ESXi host's IP Address, click on Configuration -> Storage.
- Right click on the datastore you wish to copy the ISO image and select 'Browse Datastore'.
- Here, I simply created a new Folder (Operating Systems) and clicked "Upload files to this datastore". From there simply copy in all your OS ISO images.
Now all you need to do is either (a) change the virtual CD/DVD drive to point to the ISO you just uploaded by selecting 'Datastore ISO File' and browsing to your ISO, or (b) add a virtual CD/DVD and point it to the ISO. Remember to select "Connect at power on".
Once you have installed the OS, simply return the setting to 'Client device' (recommended) or deselect "Connect at power on".
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Even if it were old stock, it's still cheaper. What's the performance gain going from 1.3 to 1.5GHz? It's clear most people are going to rip the RAM out, so the 2Gb isn't much incentive.
So in essence I could have just assigned the complete 250 gig to a single data store and when creating a new vm it would just create the partition based on the amount of space you want to allocate to that vm, is this correct? and do the same for the next vm pointing at the same data store?
divv
Senior Member
Well if anyone DOES throw out their 2G RAM please throw a stick in my direction.. ;-)
You should be able to do this, yes.
Thanks, will test tonight when I get home
Just finished setting up one of my Microservers as an HTPC. 5GB RAM (standard module + a 4GB ECC DIMM), and the MSI GT520, all else standard. OpenELEC on the motherboard USB. Had to grapple a bit to get the GT520 to work right in OpenELEC: it had some weird resolution issues picking up my HDTV (its maximum output resolution was 1024x768 in the menu, and I had to override it in the config files), and also issues with sound over HDMI (also fixed through the config files). All is working now, though.
For those considering OpenELEC for a similar use case: while I found it generally pretty great, I was slightly disappointed that a bunch of add-ons (some of which come bundled as part of the Aeon MQ3 skin I use) do not appear to work under OpenELEC, and can't be fixed without modifying the add-ons themselves. OpenELEC runs a higher version of Python, which causes small compatibility issues in some cases. Despite its obvious advantages, it does seem to be less mature than XBMC on a "conventional" OS.
Now waiting for my HDDs to arrive so I can build the NAS.
For those considering OpenELEC for a similar use case: while I found it generally pretty great, I was slightly disappointed that a bunch of add-ons (some of which come bundled as part of the Aeon MQ3 skin I use) do not appear to work under OpenELEC, and can't be fixed without modifying the add-ons themselves. OpenELEC runs a higher version of Python, which causes small compatibility issues in some cases. Despite its obvious advantages, it does seem to be less mature than XBMC on a "conventional" OS.
Now waiting for my HDDs to arrive so I can build the NAS.
I'm curious as to why (a) you need ECC i.e. more expensive memory (unless you had it lying around) and (b) why you need 5GB of memory in your HTPC? 1GB is more than sufficient for OpenELEC / XBMC. Rather put that 4GB module in your NAS.