Building a cheap ESXI server
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After having a play with VMware ESXi, I’ve decided to pick it for my virtualisation solution. My ESXi box will be configured as:
- HP N40L Microserver
- 2 x 4GB Kingston Non-ECC RAM
- 8GB Sandisk Cruizer USB thumb drive
- 5 x 2TB Hitachi 7K2000 HDDs
- HP P410 Storage Array with 512MB cache + battery backup
- HP NC360T Dual Gigabit NIC (unless I destroy it when I try to make it fit into a x1 slot)
- VMware ESXi
The aim is to have it configured as follows:
I’ve got pretty much most of the parts that I need, just waiting on the P410 Storage Array to turn up before I can build this bad boy.