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ASRock 990FX Extreme3 w/ DirectPath I/O

valentine
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 MEMORY - 2ct Kingston HyperX 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 KHX1600C9D3K2/8G
MOTHERBOARD - ASRock 990FX Extreme3 AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AM
PROCESSOR - AMD FX-6100 Zambezi 3.3GHz Socket AM3+ 95W Six-Core Desktop Processor FD6100WMGUSBX
RAID CONTROLLER - Dell PERC 6e SAS 256MB cache w/ BBU (0F989F)
NIC - Intel® PRO/1000 PT Dual Port
HARD DRIVES - 3ct Seagate ES.2 7.2K 750 GB and 1ct Seagate ES.2 1TB
VIDEO does it matter? PowerColor Go! Green AX5450 512MK3-SH Radeon HD 5450

Reason for the above Build:
- Price! Best bang for my money
- MB Supports Direct Path I/O via IOMMU
- MB supports FX out of the box, no UEFI/BIOS update
- 3 PCIe Slots.

MOTHERBOARD NOTES:
Intergrated Broadcom BCM57781 NIC is not supported by ESXi 5.0 at this time.

PERC 6/E RAID CONTROLLER NOTES:
- ESXi 5.0 health status requires SMIS Provider VIB installed on ESXi host: VMW-ESX-5.0.0-LSIProvider-500.04.V0.24-261033-456178 vmsysadmin.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/using-perc-5i-with-esxi-5-2/
- Download and Install the specific LSI RAID Management Software Manager, search google for: LSI MegaRaid Storage Manager 6.50-11 Be sure to installed software on a Windows VM that hosted by the ESXi server containing the RAID controller and has teh SMIS Provider VIB installed.[color=#BF0040] Note: I could not get any of the more current LSI MSM software to work, only version 6.50-11.[/color]
- Add host records on both ESXi server and the Windows VM with the installed LSI MegaRaid Storage Manager. communities.vmware.com/thread/278204?start=60&tstart=0 (Post 67)
- ESXi: \"/etc/hosts\"
Code:
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 # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain localhost
::1             localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.1.159   WinXP.DOMAIN.LOCAL WinXP

- Windows VM w/ LSI MSM installed: \"C:/Windows/System32/Drivers/etc/hosts\")
[code]#Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a \'#\' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

192.168.1.100 ESXi-50-LAB.domain.local ESXi-50-LAB
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Date: 05-01-2012 05:09
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