January 22, 201214 yr 32bit with PAE extensions. You can put more in your machine. I've tested it and it works.
January 22, 201214 yr Author Cool. I'm building out a new system. It needs to run 1 or 2 virtual machines... so I was trying to decide if it's going to be easier to run VirtualBox IN unraid, or run unraid on ESX...
January 22, 201214 yr I would go unRAID in ESXi, There's a number of people doing it already so there is a wealth of information to draw upon.
January 23, 201214 yr Much better option would be to run unraid under xen. Xen has much better performance than esxi. Network performance of free esxi seem to be slow. Xen let you reasign pci cards or hard drives or usb. I am testing server 2008 domain controller on xeon 3050 with 1gb assigned an perfomance it just amazing. It strange that boot times and performance is much better than on esxi with 4 gb assigned and amd 6 core cpu.
January 25, 201214 yr Much better option would be to run unraid under xen. Xen has much better performance than esxi. Network performance of free esxi seem to be slow. Xen let you reasign pci cards or hard drives or usb. I am testing server 2008 domain controller on xeon 3050 with 1gb assigned an perfomance it just amazing. It strange that boot times and performance is much better than on esxi with 4 gb assigned and amd 6 core cpu. Free ESXi and paid-for ESXi are the same thing and perform the same. Which version of ESXi are you using? 5.0 does all of those things you mentiond, 4.1 did as well minus the USB. Some workloads do run faster on Xen, some on ESXi. If both are set up properly though then the performance will be pretty similar.
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