one more note currently in my bare bone setup, i use 2 16G USBs (mirror) to boot from FreeNAS and in the BIOS i set it up as DUAL boot modes (UEFI and LEGACY), do i still leave it as DUAL right? and how do i pass it through to ESXi? and when setting up freenas how do i import my current configuration, pool, USBs mirrors etc? i'm new to ESXi so still learning is this correct and how do i fix it? or the way i set it initially is wrong but the SSD has to be on one of the SATA groups anyway. the SSD was added as a bare bone device in the initial ESXi installation but once i passthrough the second AHCI to the ESXi, he owned it.
as explain in my OP i have two SATA groups with total 10 inputs in the BIOS, group 1 have 4 inputs with 4 HDDs populated from the pool and the second have 6 inputs with 4 HDDs populated from the same pool, one SSD that i install the ESXi and one DVD.
i think i know why but not sure how to fix it. however i have a new issue after passthrough reboot, booting freezes for few minutes, when loging in, the one datastore (SSD ESXi) disappeared, its still there but not available any more, otherwise i wasn't able to boot at all.
When you first start the software you have a basic view, with all the. Its a partition, backup/copy multiboot, disk defrag tool. The software is multi-purpose tool which can do several tasks useful for power home user or small business enterprise. Be social and share it with social media, if you feel worth sharing it.Yes i was following this post thank you, i had some progress yesterday, i can confirm now it is working on ESXi 6.5 U2 with X10SRi-F, by updating the Passthrough map and adding the device ID i was able to passthrough both Intel Wellsburg AHCI controllers. I was given an opportunity to test the newly released Paragon Hard Disk Manager Suite 2011.
That’s it We are done with Converting VHD to VMDK using WinImage. Hyper-V Virtual Machine disk format VHD to converted to VMDK ESXi Virtual Machin Disk Format.
Specify the destination location to save the converter VMDK file. You can either Fixed Size (Thick Disk) and Dynamically Expanding (Thin Disk). Select the type of the Virtual Hard Disk image. Select the VHD file which you want to convert to VMDK format and Click Open. To Convert Hyper-V to VMware Virtual Machine Disk Format, Select Convert Virtual Hard Disk Image to start the disk conversion from Hyper-V to VMware ESXi i.e to convert VHD to VMDK. Open Installation of WinImage is completed, Double-Click the WinImage icon to start the Disk conversion.
WinImage installation in windows as same as any software installation on Windows operating system.
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