Basslover

I spent over 8 month following the topic in this thread and save money to buy all the parts. Thanks OP for the clear steps and intuitive graph to make this happen! Here is my setup inspired by the Atlas: SuperMicro X10SLM-F 16GB Kingston ECC unbuffered 1600Mhz Xeon E3-1230-V3 Haswell Native LSI 9211-8i Samsung 840Pro 256GB SSD 8 Old Varies size HDD from 640GB -2T Old ATI Radeon 2400 Video card Be Quiet 650W Gold certified Sandisk Cruz 16G nano flash <---install ESXi Kingston 8G flash <---install Unraid config/license VMware ESXi 5.5 right now I am only running two VMs, windows 8.1Pro with 4 vCPU and 8Gb Ram, "Physicalized" as my daily home PC --passthrough #1: X10SLM-F Onboard Host Controller #1 <-- have two USB3.0 two USB2.0 at back panel for Keyboard and mouse. --passthrough #2: ATI Radeon 2400 Video card for Direct connect to my 24" LCD. (other forum specify only ATI card worked. mine is 6 years old still worked!the best single slot card you can have nowadays is Radeon 7750 if you are into gaming. any GPU more powerful will require two PCIe slot spaces) I leave Onboard Host Controller #2 for ESXi. one USB port for the ESXi OS install, one USB port to assign to Unraid. The Controller #2 on this board is the two underneath the IPMI port plus two in the front panel. Unraid:(2 vCPU and 4Gb Ram, maybe overkill) using the pre-made vmdk from BetaQuasi using the vmware tools from Zeron --passthrough #3: LSI 9211-8i (already flashed IT mode) connect all 8 HDDs no problem all VMs runs on the Samsung SSD. The good thing about this setup is I can have 10Gig Vmxnet3 connection between windows 8.1 and Unraid. The onboard i210 and i217 is not supported by ESXi so a custom image needs to include the .vib file. Then the ESXi host plug into the household network through 1Gig ASUS-rt66-u router. All household media players connect to unraid just fine. so far so good!

Thanks, I will try that plug-in tonight. So there is no native command/support from unRAID?

Any command to check if a IP/user make a connection to the Tower? Can we also know which folder/file they are currently using? in the midnight I saw the disk spinning just trying to know who is still watching movie!