As for the GPU passthrough, I tried it with a Radeon 5450 using the latest drivers which have been shown to work. Was this powered with a picoPSU? I'm seriously considering one, but am thinking about what wattage to take. Final system will have max 4 3TB green drives and probably later on an ssd fo...

Sounds like a new PSU would pay for itself in no time. Have you changed the power profile yet? As for the GPU passthrough, I tried it with a Radeon 5450 using the latest drivers which have been shown to work. However from what Ive read, GPU passthrough has only been successfuly on Supermicro or oth...

Well I installed the system last weekend and am pleasantly surprised. Current setup: Gigabyte B75M-D3H i5-3550 16GB Ram 1 x 250GB 2,5" HDD (VMFS Datastore) 1 x WD 1TB Caviar (non Green) (RDM for freenas) 450Watt PSU (somewhere between 8-10 years old, so not efficient at all) Without underclocking/un...

I dont think the Microserver supports VT-d so I wouldnt plan on using passthrough, although you may be able to use it as a RAID card in ESXi if you have the BBWU/cache. Just a thought, are you using 1vCPU per VM? If you are you probably shouldnt be. Whats your CPU usage during a write action? I hav...

The power use I quoted is for the whole system, the cpu is underclocked to 2.5GHz and the RAM undervolted but apart from that theres nothing special about the config and you should easily be able to achieve the same results with similar components. Id be suprised if the cpu performance of the Micro...

If anyone's interested, just updated my Gigabyte Q57/i5-650 ESXi box to the following: First impressions are very, very favorable. With the system running 11 VMs, the performance increase is impressive and the power consumption is about 30% lower than the dual core: ~28 watts at idle ~34 - 38 watts...