February 23, 201412 yr I've been debating on and off moving my unraid setup to an ESXi virtualized setup like a lot of people, but haven't really had a good reason to. However, I have an opportunity to set up a new pc/server system for my family's business. My options are either to set them up with 7 desktops and some sort of central server for data storage or, since they need to replace their central server anyways, replace their central server with an X9SCM-iif setup with ESXi and then just run everything on VMs, which in the long run would simplify maintenance, updates, moving to new OSs, backups, etc. My problem is that I'm having a hard time finding some very basic information (which i'm sure is the result of just googling the wrong things). Our ideal setup right now would be 1 server with 7 clients across 2 locations, all running Win7. Presumably I can figure out installing ESXi itself for local access, but I need some resources on how to set up the remote location securely with a simple method of access (something like wyse thin clients over a vpn). Everything I look up about wyse seems to assume you already have a good idea how to set it up, which is leaving me a little baffled, but I like the concept of having cheap small boxes that can be deployed without buying full PCs. Anyone have any suggestions or can point me at an obvious resource that would explain how to do this? It seems simple like something a lot of people would have done but i can't find a simple tutorial anywhere.
February 24, 201412 yr Author Well the goal is to use virtualized unraid as the storage side of this and I posted in the general/other category. It is a bit off topic but since a lot of people seem to do virtualization of their setups there is always the possibility that someone had done something similar and could point me in the right direction. Either way, no harm in asking.
February 26, 201412 yr unRAID is not meant for this kind of thing. unRAID is great for write once, read many operations but you want a full on proper RAID setup if you ask me. You're heading into territory best served by ZFS or something similar. I'm out!
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