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Right after you press Enter to choose Install ESXi (the boot menu), press Shift + O to open the boot option command line, then add: Start install ESXi from DVD (if you have one) or from USB stick. However, as many people booting ESXi and FreeNAS from USB sticks, it would not be the big problem. Yes, I do know about wasting the performance of SSD when downgrade it to USB speed but in this case, it's only slow down when booting ESXi (how many reboot a year that you do with your ESXi?), FreeNAS and the firewall. And I just come with an idea to use a SATA-to-USB converter to convert the SSD to USB drive and use the internal USB 2.0 connector. You can install ESXi to SSD with logical drive schema, but when ESXi booted up, it can't see the drive anymore (you passthroughed it already) so you have no local storage to install FreeNAS on. Since you want to passthrough the SATA/RAID controller to FreeNAS VM, you can't create a second logical drive for the ODD connection. The server can't boot from the ODD SATA connection if you install HDDs in the front bay. The problem comes with the onboard SATA/RAID controller. 2 ports on PCIEx NIC as LAN to connect to home network e.g wireless AP The other internal NIC as management interface for ESXi Passthrough 1 internal NIC to firewall VM as WAN connection Passthrough all other HDDs in front bays to FreeNAS VM Make the rest of SSD a local storage for installing FreeNAS VM, firewall VM, web server VM.
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In full load, it's around 55C which is far too good. And as the result, the normal temperature with full 4 cores fullspeed is around 40C. The original heatsink is designed for 35W CPU only, however, I got the CPU fan from a Dell Precision M60 (which I bought for 20 Euro to make a DiY digital frame) so I installed it there. I bought a Xeon E3-1220v2 (support VT-d) for cheap price on eBay to replace my Celeron G1610T (doesn't support VT-d). This topic is just for solving some problems that you have when trying to install a home server similar to my usecase. Yes, I do read all the articles about NOT virtualizing FreeNAS and I acknowledge the risks but this topic is not to answer the question of should or shouldn't virtualize FreeNAS. Also, for home NAS, it doesn't make sense to have such a powerful CPU for just NAS, I want to exploit it anyway. I also need a good separated web server for other in-house applications. I'm not satisfied with all the home modems/routers firewall features so I need a "soft" firewall with more powerful features. SSD or other 2.5" HDD for installing ESXi (since I don't trust the quality of USB stick, I want to stick with HDD/SSD) HP Microserver Gen8 with 16GB RAM and a CPU support VT-d The hardware that you want to install is: There are many posts and articles about this topic with detail tutorials and guides already however, in this post, I just want to address the specific topic for those who want a simplest hardware installation like me.