wedtaur Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 Hi everybody! I am an owner of a HP Gen8. I installed an i3-3240, an SSD in a DVD caddy and two hard disks. My goal is to install an Hypervisor and mainly install a Xpenology virtual machine. Sometimes, I could need to install other virtual machines. My idea was to install ESXi on the SSD, which I configured with a single RAID-0 array. Unfortunately, I figured out that is not possible to allow virtual machines to have direct access to hard drives since the i3-3240 doesn't have VT-d support. I'm very worried that performance would be very bad if I configured Xpenology with virtual hard drives. What alternative options do I have? Could I use Microsoft Hyper-v? Can I install the OS directly on the SSD without using arrays? Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoondoggy Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 I would boot the hypervisor from USB. There are a few threads discussing RDM vs controller passthrough. If passthrough is the best route you may want to look at a XEON. https://xpenology.com/forum/topic/6392-esxi-physical-rdm-vs-controller-passthrough/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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