RE: VM Appliance - ZoneMinder

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I do as it happens have another Intel Pro/1000-MT in the box...

You're absolutely right of course, LAN is an absolute *must* - since
there's no local management console for the virtual infrastructure in
ESXi - so you have to manage everything via the VI client


Paul G.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Rob Iles
> Sent: 25 March 2009 00:48
> To: UKHA Group
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] VM Appliance - ZoneMinder
>
> Paul,
>
> You wouldn't happen to have another spare NIC that's compatible would
> you?
>
> Very keen to try this out, but networking is a must-have, and on-board
> nic
> isn't recognised at all!
>
> </cheeky>
>
> Rob
>
>
> 2009/3/24 Paul Gordon <paul@xxxxxxx>
>
> >   IIRC the biggest "gotcha" is the very limited number
of NICs that
> are
> > supported "out of the box"... I am currently running an
ESXi server
> on a
> > Gigabyte mobo with a core 2 duo & 8GB RAM. It was happy with
all the
> > onboard storage controllers and happily utilized a pair of 400GB
SATA
> > disks connected directly to the mobo. It was NOT happy however
with
> the
> > onboard Realtek network adapter and I had to drop in an Intel
PRO-
> 1000
> > PCI card instead. When I was doing this, I noticed that the list
of
> > supported NICs was *VERY* small - literally just 2 or 3 cards
were
> > mentioned... - lucky I just happened to have one of them in my
spares
> > bin!
> >
> > Paul G
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:
> > ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf
> > Of Mark McCall
> > Sent: 24 March 2009 13:45
> > To: UKHA Group
> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] VM Appliance - ZoneMinder
> >
> > >>
> > > There's a free version of the VMWare bare metal hypervisor
> available
> > > now too - http://www.vmware.com/products/esxi/
> >
> > Andy - what are the hardware requirement for that?
> >
> > M.
> >
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