Will this work in desktop class hardware that is being used for and ESXi test lab?
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I use it in desktop class hardware for a hyper-v lab. Works great. Two different systems actually, both run Intel i7's. One is an MSI motherboard, the other is an asrock.
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This NIC is listed as approved in VMware HCL (Hardware Compatibility List) but you need to be sure the rest of the hardware is listed to on HCL
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I am currently using 9 of these across 3 HP DL380 G7/G8 servers running vSphere 5.1. These should work fine for an ESXi lab.
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I'm running about 15 servers off two ESXi hosts with it right now. All my apps are pretty snappy, login times, bootup times, all good. I'm not doing any production with it, but I'm fairly sure this could handle a small business without any problems. It does both NFS and iSCSI, so I have both set up. It can do jumbo frames, vlan tagging, iSNS, thin provisioned luns, lun snapshots. You won't regret this purchase for your lab.
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I don't think you need this piece of hardware for that desktop, since this tray is mostly for servers with hot swappable disks, since it's reachable from the outside, so you can take the disk in or out without turning off or opening your server, as far as I know in that workstation all the disks are internal.
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From the specs on the manufacturer's website, it says it supports iSCSI but I have never tried making an iSCSI connection with them. You might also want to consider how much I/O performance you need for your ESX application(s) as I have found most NAS devices like this to have marginal real world I/O performance, especially IOPS. If you plan on running any VMs that required moderate to high I/O loads, it might not keep up.
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No iSCSI support with this one, you'll need to go with the + model I believe. It does support NFS, however I've never personally setup ESX to work with it yet. It's on my list of things to play around with.
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Yes it is, actually we bought it for that purpose. It is installed on an HP Proliant ML 150 with VMWARE ESX 5.1, works very well.
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Should work as long as you have an open PCIe X4 slot for it. OS-wise, I also used these with VMware and they worked fine...
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This will work with any desktop that has a motherboard with a PCI-e slot, which just about any newer computer has. If you can't get it to work in that case then your doing something wrong, maybe a bad connection or you haven't installed the software/drivers.
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Go to the StarTech website. You should be able to find out if it is compatible there.
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I was able to access and load files from my eMachines W3502 Tower. Therefore, it appears to perform as backward compatible.
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You can let your r/x program the ESC that works best for your applications.Unfortuately this Esc was to small for me
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Sure, I don't see why not. For all intents and purposes it's just two more network ports. I'm using mine in an ESXI box.
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Stewart, please Google search part numbers and do a comparison. You want to remain within spec and the only correct way of doing that is to make sure your spiking down number for number for your model computer. I do not know your model desktop so it would be hard to say if it would or would not be compatible.
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Yes, this is only a single stick of DDR2 ECC FB-DIMM. Use only if you know what this means. Not for desktops.
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Yes: Check out these links: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/vmware/esxi-image.htmlhttp://www.virten.net/2013/11/vsphere-5-homelab-esxi-on-hp-microserver-gen8/http://www.virten.net/2013/06/preview-on-hp-proliant-microserver-gen8-for-esxi/
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Yes for iSCSI. Sort of for VMware. It is not on the HCL, and it isn't high performance. I use these to backup ESX, and for lab use of ESX.
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Gigabit Intel. I was able to successfully install XenServer and VMware ESXI on this model and run quite a few machines for my home lab.