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By: vinf.net

vinf.net — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:33:20 +0000

the D530 in this (old) post doesn’t support x64 VMs (or physical OS installations either)

You’d be best to check out my vTARDIS project for that requirement – http://vinf.net/vTARDIS

By: manju

manju — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:20:23 +0000

hi there, will this hardware adequate to run vsphere and 64bit vms using vmware workstation on a single physical host?

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By: Martin Sundstrom

Martin Sundstrom — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:39:23 +0000

Excellent, that will be enough for me! Thanks for the help

By: vinf

vinf — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:25:19 +0000

Great – my G4 has a 3040 CPU and it runs vSphere and x64 guests fine; no FT support – but works perfectly for me otherwise.

By: Martin Sundstrom

Martin Sundstrom — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:48:23 +0000

Ok, thanks for the responce. I checked the CPUs just now and it’s Intel Xeon 3040 in all 4 of them. That looks promising, thanks for the help!

By: vinf

vinf — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:18:54 +0000

Mine are running vSphere 4 and can run x64 guest’s – you prob need to check which CPU’s they have – mine are the Intel Xeon ones, I’ve seen a fair few cheap ones around, but they are the non-Xeon chips (AMD/P4 etc.) – which maybe don’t do x64 I’ve not had one so I don’t know specifically I’m afraid.

You won’t be able to do FT on those ML110′s either, if thats a concern, the quad-core AMD ML115 G5 is the current weapon of choice

By: Martin Sundstrom

Martin Sundstrom — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:03:48 +0000

I have the chace to buy 4 ML110 G4 very cheap and have found a couple of posts on the internet claiming that they will not support 64 bit guest OS. I noticed that you are using two ML110 G4, so I just wanted to ask you if you can confirm that they do NOT support 64 bit guest OS?

Best regards
Martin

By: vinf

vinf — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:40:26 +0000

Nick – I’ve got mine set to ‘Tag Egress’ packets for the relevant VLAN using 802.1q VLAN on the switch port and it works ok – the UI is a bit odd, but you need to make sure you select the correct VLAN in the drop down /then/ set the T/U setting for the relevant switch port and make sure the PVID isn’t set on those ports.

but my ESX hosts are happily accepting multiple VLANs up and down their ‘T’ ports but by design my OpenFiler boxes are only available on my storage VLAN and are plugged into ports with Port based VLAN’s set (PVID) and I had to set those ports to ‘U’ (Untag egress packets) to get it to work.

I’ve not managed to get multiple trunked NICs into a single switch from an ESX host to work reliably on this switch – they don’t failover when a NIC is unplugged – so maybe it’s something to do with that – these aren’t the cleverest switches when it comes to the trunking configuration/features

I will try to do a blog post with some screenshots of my switch config in the next couple of days, but I’ve only got a single switch so I can’t try out your configuration unfortunately.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:13:06 +0000

Hi there, just wanted to know if you could provide some more detail on how you got ESX working with VLANS on the GS748T switch. We have two switches setup as trunk back to router, but when we set the ports for ESX Server as tagged we cant communicate. Only works when they are untagged.

Any support would be great.

Thanks