Shackman_Aark

Hi @Bastioned, Sorry forr the late reply. I believe I started with Esxi 5.5 (5.6) and did update to ESXi 6.x I believe. I did not make BIOS changes/ tuning for the NICs. No graphics card needed. I did however get the IPMI card on Amazon which has made it easier with Out of Band Management. Link: https://amzn.asia/d/fkxnQDC Hope that helps.

Hi All, New to the world of Unraid and planning my first build. Been reading and learning for the last few weeks on here then started to build a parts list, but here’s my back story. I have a a Synology 5 bay NAS that has served me well however it is nearing 8 years old and although currrently trouble free I started to plan for an upgrade. I run a Unifi network at home and have a UDM pro that I would be able to leverage 10gbps networking as well at some point in the future. Current Requirements: although I don’t have a plex server at the moment I’m hoping to build one up as a means to host family videos/ photos as well as Home Assistant, NVR, docker apps for for automation of file sync to cloud for backups. I currently have a monument photo management device that will then backup to a nas and then to cloud. I also run some lab servers for work that include a dc and approx 4 other vms. Now comes the build around the Asus z10pa-d8. I am currently running an Esxi host on a server build using the same motherboard with a single Xeon e5 v4 cpu. While building a complete new parts list around a w680 chipset realized I might get a better bang for buck on the board by transferring it into a bigger case, add 2 newer CPU’s (second hand). Motherboard has 9 sata ports but limited on nvme. Which then brought me to the option of getting a gen 4 Asus hyper m2 card that can handle 4 x nvme (I thinking 2 by 1tb ) for cache. So the plan was to transfer the motherboard and cpu into a Fractal Design Meshify 2 case with 2 upgraded CPU’s or even source the same e5 v4 CPU’s and upgrade to water cooling on both cpus with 32 gb of ram (possibly 64 gb ) but also slot in a m2 card to get the nvme’s in for cache. And at some point a video card only if necessary and a 10gbps NIC as well. I will reuse my current drives from my synology as most of them are fairly new, all 6 TB WD nas drives, with a plan to upgrade at a later date. I would likely create My concern now is from research the motherboard has pcie gen3 and not sure how the nvme would fair paired into a pcie card. Given my story and my need for a few VMs as well what flaws do I have in my theory that I may have missed. Thank You!