Dec
15
X10SDV-F: VMware 6.0 Intel NIC Passthrough Fail (Part 2)
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After this weekends network card passthrough fail with the EXPI9404PT on VMware 6.0 I was feeling pretty discouraged, so I took a break for a day. I decided to try again today since I have a couple other models of network cards in my currently running lab: 1x Intel 82576 ET Quad Port Gigabit Network 1x [...]
Dec
13
X10SDV-F: VMware 6.0 Passthrough Fail (Part 1)
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I recently picked up an X10SDV-F to use in my home lab. The goal was to replace some aging components, including an older virtual server and my loud and power hungry firewall. The X10SDV features an 8-core/16-thread 45W CPU, and can support up to 128GB of ram, has two 1GB NICS, two 10GB NICS and [...]
Jan
16
Import PeopleSoft OVA into ESXi (9.2/8.54 update)
Filed Under Oracle PeopleSoft, VirtualBox, VMware ESXi | 4 Comments
In May of last year I had posted a method to import PeopleSoft OVAs into ESXi. This method was an extension of Nicolas Gasparotto‘s guide that worked for releases 9.2.001 through 9.2.005. The method I posted worked great for 9.2.006 through 9.2.008. However, with the release of 9.2.009 the PeopleSoft image was updated to PeopleTools 8.54, and [...]