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Using vSphere Hypervisor to get around lack of UEFI support?

road hazard

We all know that the XG ISO lacks support for UEFI booting but.... could I install vSphere Hypervisor onto my Dell PowerEdge server and create a virtual machine and boot XG on -that-?

I've never really messed with vSphere Hypervisor so was just wondering if I could configure a VM in there so it has a non-UEFI boot drive and get XG up and running that way?

Also, in the not too distant future, I'll be getting a 1 gig symmetrical connection and was wondering if networking speed through vSphere would degrade any?

I know that XG Home only supports 4 cores and 6 gigs of RAM and the host hardware will be a Dell server with dual Xeon E5-2620 v4 CPUs (32 cores total), 512GB RAM and some 10K SAS drives in RAID 6 (yes...... super overkill but it was all free)....... so pealing off a few cores for this project won't be a problem. :)



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    road hazard said:
    We all know that the XG ISO lacks support for UEFI booting but.... could I install vSphere Hypervisor onto my Dell PowerEdge server and create a virtual machine and boot XG on -that-?

    Yes, you can even use the vmware pre-build image for ESXi.

    road hazard said:
    Also, in the not too distant future, I'll be getting a 1 gig symmetrical connection and was wondering if networking speed through vSphere would degrade any?

    Depends on the traffic and features you will enable, the vmxnet3 driver can do 1Gbit without much issues.

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    road hazard said:
    We all know that the XG ISO lacks support for UEFI booting but.... could I install vSphere Hypervisor onto my Dell PowerEdge server and create a virtual machine and boot XG on -that-?

    Yes, you can even use the vmware pre-build image for ESXi.

    road hazard said:
    Also, in the not too distant future, I'll be getting a 1 gig symmetrical connection and was wondering if networking speed through vSphere would degrade any?

    Depends on the traffic and features you will enable, the vmxnet3 driver can do 1Gbit without much issues.

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