Elpee Posted May 30, 2014 Share #1 Posted May 30, 2014 A noob question. What is difference between installing XPEnology on USB stick and on ESXi 5.5 machine? Any benefits of each? Thank you so much for the inputs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rand__ Posted May 31, 2014 Share #2 Posted May 31, 2014 Oh my, 112 views and no one answers:( So long story short: -ESX - more flexibility, more (and possibly special) hardware required, option to run other servers/services on the same machine; Unsecure (reliability wise) unless you pass through drives. Can use vms to try different settings, layouts, configs -Usb or any other bare metal installation - (way) less hardware requirements, reuse or buy cheap; singular utilization of the hardware, no overhead. I'd recommend going bare metal unless you are willing to read a lot;) and need multiple services XPE cant provide Edit: Removed: Dont use RDM, might be fast and recommended but might also kill your data one day. Reason: Not sure if that warning is applicable here since Linux should be able to utilize raid disks even if the drive order is skewed up i think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elpee Posted June 2, 2014 Author Share #3 Posted June 2, 2014 Oh my, 200 views now but only 1 answer. I've never touched ESXi before, just curious because ppl talking about ESXi a lot and dunno its benefits. Can I setup ESXi machine and install a HTPC and a nas nanobooth on it? Possible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rand__ Posted June 2, 2014 Share #4 Posted June 2, 2014 Not entirely sure what you want to do... Depends on what you want to run on the HTPC - ie what is not running on xpenology? You will have limited pass through capability, not usre how well audio/video/tv cards can be passed on to a client vm - you'll have to look that up if thats ur intention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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