Home server Oct 2011

終於等到 H700 所需的Sff-8087
寫住Home server 的上半Part先

Hardware

• MB-  MSI Z68A-G45 B3
• CPU – Intel i7-2600
• Memory – 4GB DDR3 1333 x 4
• HBA – Dell PERC H700 512MB with BBU
• Disk – 2TB SATA HDD x5 (3 Brand 4 Models, RAID 5, 2 Logical Disk)
• NIC – Broadcom NetXtreme II 5709 Dual Port GbE, onboard Realtek 8111D
• Power – Antek 380W Power Supply

Software

• Host – vmware ESXi 5
• guest – pfSense 2.0
• guest – Server 2008R2 as NAS

Side view, overcrowded

MSI Z680A-G45 (B3), HK$9xx have VT-d

Dell PERC H700

ESXi installed on 2GB USB Flash, in picture also have H700 battery backup unit.

Front view – the FAN controller lower the HDD Case fan noise

Installed LSI CIM Provider, can view card status

VT-d enabled in BIOS, can mark device for vmdirectpath I/O